What’s going on?

By Dan Barber

In suit, Blue Shield cites extravagant spending by fired executive

Is it any wonder why health care insurance is so expensive? Now this guy has another leadership job at a health insurance company in Nevada. At least Blue Shield of California is no longer identified as a "not for profit" company and has to pay taxes in California on its profits. Who suffers you wonder? The people of California who are required to pay insurance premiums to this company or face federally mandated penalties!

Bruce Jenner said he’s Republican. Only 21 percent of LGBT Americans are.

OMG, the horror! Bruce Jenner is a Republican... She will now be shunned and boycotted by Hollywood.

Fewer immigrants are being caught crossing U.S.-Mexico border

Is this good news, bad news or "what's going on?" The communications people in the White House are twisting themselves into knots trying to spin this into a good news story to avoid becoming bad news for the Obama administration. According to the White House the communications plan south of the border to encourage people to stop coming here is working or we already have seen the bulk of undocumented immigrants planning to come here. Maybe what the White House doesn't want to communicate is: The economy really isn't recovered enough to provide jobs to justify further migration of workers. Another scary scenario is that our border patrol officers have been so demoralized by the Administration's political actions that they've just given up trying to guard the borders. Maybe Obama spent too much political capital for nothing on trying to gain political advantage by circumventing the law with "executive action."