Title: “Beating Obamacare: Your Handbook for the New Healthcare Law”

Author: Betsy McCaughey

Rank: 20

Blurb: “Beating Obamacare is the essential consumer guide to understanding and preparing for one of the biggest changes about to take over Americans’ health care and family budgets.”

Review: “McCaughey is the nation’s expert on the topic.”

Customers Also Bought: “Atlas Shrugged” — both DVDs

Footnote: Sarah Palin gets credit for the line, but it was McCaughey who ginned up an anodyne detail about funding optional end-of-life counseling into mandatory euthanasia advice.

Somehow, this and her past membership on two medical-company boards aren’t included in the book’s publicity.

Beating Obamacare [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]

“At least two people were injured Saturday afternoon in an apparent accidental shooting at the gun show being held at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds… A witness told WRAL that a gun went off after being checked by an official at a safety check-in location.” [via @JC_Christian]

Dramatis Personæ:

• Megan Carpentier, née Anonymous Lobbyist, fired from Wonkette on January 18, 2008, by Ken Layne: Executive Editor of Raw Story.
• Ken Layne, Wonkette editor/Designated Villain: Bought Wonkette, sold Wonkette, last seen cowering with other Gawker castoffs at The Awl.
• Jim Newell, Wonkette minion/Innocent Bystander: Last seen at Gawker Salon The Guardian Wonkette again New York Observer.
• Homofascist, openly aggressively gay non-ambassador, founder of Wonkette Protest Blog, January 19, 2008: Stranded at some Chicago dive bar.

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[WaPo]

In Brazil, they know how to sell hand sanitizers.

[BuzzFeed, via The Loop]

“Arpaio wants his army of 3,000 volunteer posse members to look like sworn deputies and sometimes perform the same duties. But an in-depth project by CBS 5 Investigates uncovered a number of posse members with arrests for assault, drug possession, domestic violence, sex crimes against children, disorderly conduct, impersonating an officer — and the list goes on.” [CBS Phoenix, via jwmcsame]

“It’s way past time: House Republicans need to stop talking about rape. That’s the message GOP lawmakers got here Wednesday evening from Kellyanne Conway, a top GOP pollster.” [Politico, via Political Wire]