(Video) White House won't say how many ObamaCare enrollees have paid and were previously uninsured

Watch as ABC News' Jonathan Karl grills White House press secretary Jay Carney on the people who signed up for ObamaCare. How many have paid? How many didn't have insurance prior to open enrollment?

Carney couldn't say.



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(Photos) Remains of an old Chicago River footbridge

While running yesterday through Bunker Hill Woods and Caldwell Woods, which are located in Chicago and Niles, I came across these columns, which are that that remains of a footbridge that connected two halves of the old Bunker Hill Country Club.

I'm pleased that I discovered the bridge before the spring foliage emerged--the leaves would have spoiled the view.

I wanted to get all of the river in a photograph, so I climbed through some dense brush to accomplish this task.

The view from the stairs to the bridge. Bunker Hill closed in the 1950s--it was sold to the Cook County Forest Preserve District. The rest of the bridge was wooden and it either rotted away or it was dismantled by the FPD for safety reasons.

A look at the top of the stairs.

Related posts:

• (Photos) Abandoned suburban Chicago rail bridge with wooden pilings
• (Photos) Abandoned line: Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad and rails-to-trails
• (More photos) The abandoned Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad
• (Photo) Old railroad remnant in Skokie in the trees

From Doug Ross: Former Democratic presidential candidate Bob Kerrey says Obama is a failed, delusional liar

Nebraska Sand Hills

Bob Kerrey, a former Navy Seal and a Vietnam veteran, is one of the better Democrats out there. The former Nebraska senator and governor--and a onetime presidential candidate--lays it on the line about BHO, Doug Ross reports: Former Democratic presidential candidate Bob Kerrey says Obama is a failed, delusional liar.

Kerrey made this observation to the Daily Mail, a British newspaper. No US media outlet, not even the Omaha World-Herald, picked up on Kerrey's interview.

UPDATE 10:25pm CDT: Well, whaddya know. A few hours after my post the World-Herald did a story on the Kerrey interview. It's nice to know that I have readers in Omaha.

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(CNN video) ObamaCare site down on final day of enrollment

It's the final day of enrollment at ObamaCare--and surprise, surprise, surprise--the website is down again, as CNN tells us.

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ILL-inois: Quinn wants to bribe homeowners with phony $500 tax credit

Future Illinois bribery victim?

Illinois' failed governor Pat Quinn wants to make his 67 percent "temporary" income tax hike permanent. But he's throwing a bone to homeowners, a possible $500 property tax credit, which won't come close to matching the cash extracted from the paychecks of hard-working Illinoisans such as myself.

What's shameful is the timing of  this stunt by "Quinnochio." The checks could be mailed this summer, which to me is really a bribe-for-votes scheme--Quinn is up for reelection in November.

Related posts:

ILL-inois: Liar Quinn to make his "temporary" 67 percent income tax hike permanent

(CBS 2 Chicago video) Is Gov. Pat "Quinnochio" Quinn's nose getting longer?

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From Da Tech Guy on DaRadio: What if they built a green town and no one came?

Today I look at the high hopes--and follies--of green construction and renewable energy and how it relates to Greensburg, Kansas, which was almost completely destroyed by a tornado in 2007: What if they built a green town and no one came?

Related posts:

Greensburg, the fall and rise, part one
Greensburg, the fall and rise, part two
Greensburg, the fall and rise, part three

Greensburg, the fall and rise, part four
Greensburg, the fall and rise, part five
Greensburg, the fall and rise, part six

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(Video) So-called independent Maine senator: "There is no such thing as ObamaCare"

I kept shaking my head as so-called independent US Sen. Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats, betrayed himself as a sycophant for ObamaCare. Except he told Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace this morning, "There is no such thing as ObamaCare."

Really?



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