I think the wheels may be coming off the Breitbart outrage machine.

TPM Reader PJ chimes in on drones as the new black helicopters …

I think your observation regarding the “hidden audience” of Rand Paul’s filibuster is fairly spot on. I think it makes sense to read it through the shifting tides of politics and foreign policy. For example, the “United Nations-is-coming-oh-my-god-they-will-force-plastic-money-on-us” conspiracy theory was really a way for some to make sense of the world following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the loss of one of the only existential threats to the idea of America itself.

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Now Florida Senate panel opposes Medicaid expansion.

In a major blow for soda and sugar freedom, a judge has struck down the New York City soda ban.