Nelson Mandela has died, South African President Jacob Zuma is announcing on worldwide TV. Mandela was 95.

Pass the popcorn. Wingnut Georgia Senate candidate Rep. Paul Brown bashes conservative Georgia Senate candidate Jack Kingston as Obamacare-curious.

It’s amazing we’re still dealing with this nonsense.

A plan to build a monument to Union soldiers at the site of the biggest Civil War battle in Florida (The Battle of Olustee) has hit a snag. A group of neo-confederate whackjobs are pledging a ‘second battle of Olustee’ to prevent building on this “hallowed grown [sic] where Southern blood was spilled in defense of Florida.”

Ron Fournier, sometime reporter now columnist at large at National Journal, seems to have reached his limit with Obama and Obamacare and just blown some sort of a fuse. “This [White House] is a propaganda outfit, that they do put out government sponsored propaganda, and they are running a government-sponsored media organization.” Here the rant here.