ObamaCare. Tornado. ObamaCare.

Just when you thought it was safe to go to the doctor.

A rising time of health care costs.

The message war intensifies in the run-up to the opening of new health insurance exchanges.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield. More than

100 congressional bodies theoretically oversee the Homeland Security Department. But it doesn't

seem any of them actually do it. Pulling these executives in, grilling them, that's the way we do

it with the Department of Defense. That's the way we do it with justice. That's the way we do it with the Department of Defense. That's the way we do it with

justice. That's the way we do it with the State Department. We need to do the same thing on

Homeland Security. And how can you spot fake reviews online? Pretty good cue of deception is

that people use a lot of words in their reviews. That and more coming up.

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From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. Now, from the annals of efforts to get toothpaste back in the tube, let's consider the information war raging over a three-year-old law that some lawmakers still can't seem to accept. Among them, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, whose unofficial filibuster lent him cult status in some political precincts this week.

If we continue doing this long enough, we may have facial hair on the floor of the Senate.

His 21-hour Philippic against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,

a.k.a. Obamacare, ranged near and far from Star Wars to Dr. Seuss to Duck Dynasty.

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