Fox: Nationwide Trayvon protests turning into “Tsunami of Anti-Capitalism”. Video after the jump … Read More

Fox: Nationwide Trayvon protests turning into “Tsunami of Anti-Capitalism”. Video after the jump … Read More

If you take one thing away from the de-escalating nuclear option fight in the Senate, it should be that there’s very little appetite among senators for doing away with the filibuster on the merits. In fact, if you thought that the fight reflected a growing sense among Democrats that the Senate’s anti-majoritarian rules have crippled the body, you weren’t paying enough attention.

What the outcome establishes is that there’s a limit to norm-breaking in the Senate, and that Harry Reid and the Democratic caucus will reluctantly and narrowly change the rules if those norms aren’t ultimately restored. But they’d really prefer to leave minority powers in tact if at all possible. And ironically, the whole fight underscores how much those limits have been stretched in just the last eight years, since the old GOP majority used the same threat to similar effect. Read More

If you’re accused of sexual harassment and your pushback is ‘hey, I’m a hugger’ you’ve probably got a problem. Watch.

Having asked what it would look like if planets were as close to earth as the moon, today we ask, what would it look like if New York was nestled down in the center of the Grand Canyon — all to scale. Look.