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October 7, 2015
Top Stories
Alabama GOPer Who Spoke At Neo-Confederate Event: It’s No Hate Group!
The Gist: A state Auditor is under fire for speaking to the League of the South about his efforts to return portraits of segregationist Governor George Wallace to the state Capitol.
Jindal: Oregon Gunman’s Father Is A ‘Failure’ Who ‘Owes Us All An Apology’
The Gist: In a rambling screed, Jindal blamed the Oregon shooting on absent fathers, “cultural decay,” and pretty much anything but guns.
Tennessee County Asks God To Spare It From His Wrath Over Gay Marriage
The Gist: The citizens of Blount County submitted a resolution asking God to “pass us by in His Coming Wrath.”
From The Reporter’s Notebook
As Tierney Sneed noted Tuesday, House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer slammed Alabama for closing 31 DMV offices when the state requires a photo ID to vote and called for a restoration of the Voting Rights Act, which was gutted by the Supreme Court in 2013. A Democratic bill that would do that, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, recently got the support of Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the first GOP senator to cosponsor it.
Agree or Disagree?
Ed Kilgore points out that conservatives’ pro-gun argument has “ less and less to do with the efficacy of gun regulation or the need for guns to deter or respond to crime. Instead, it’s based on the idea that the main purpose of the Second Amendment is to keep open the possibility of revolutionary violence against the U.S. government.”
Say What?!
“Fuck you!…Just give me my bacon-jalapeno mac and cheese.”
– A drunk University of Connecticut student had to be arrested after getting in a fight over some mac and cheese.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I think there’s a huge double standard that Hillary Clinton is held to, where the rule is that everything about Hillary must be presented in the least favorable light as possible. Hell, I think even without the Dowd Story, if Hillary Clinton was just floating outside the field but refusing to commit on whether she’d enter or not, she’d be getting a lot more negative press than Joe Biden has for it. I don’t even have to wonder, I already know it happened, and that was when the press was upset at Hillary for not entering the race in February of 2013!”
Related: Biden denied the Politico story about his son’s dying wish.
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What We’re Reading
How two guys lost God and found $40 million. ( Bloomberg)
The congressman who restricted gun violence research has regrets. (Huffington Post)
Verizon is going to match users’ online habits with their offline details. (ProPublica)
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