Eric Lach explains how the Supreme Court just opened yet another door for mega donors who already had plenty of avenues to spend big on politics if they wanted to.
Fifty-something Hannity commissions spring break “investigation” into “boobs, twerking and liquor” folkways of barely legal/early twenties crowd, discovers device called “beer bong.” Watch.
McConnell opponent Matt Bevin speaks at rally for cock-fighting rights, says he didn’t know it was a cock-fighting rally.
Priest booked for weapons and drug violations after cops stop him for DUI.
Sahil Kapur walks us through what we need to know about what’s already being called Citizens United 2.0.
Last night I noted the North Korean “drones” that crashed landed just over the border into South Korea and are getting all the headlines – and that they appear to be something more like model airplanes than the sort of armed drones we mostly think about and even a good deal less advanced to the much smaller surveillance drones used by advanced militaries that do look a lot like and to an extent are high end model airplanes.
It looks like Obama and Kerry are seriously considering releasing Jonathan Pollard for a few scraps of blah blah and perhaps one full portion of yessing. So deeply conceived and stupid. God, I hope they don’t do this.
Ed Kilgore on the “enthusiasm gap” that media pundits love to chew over: “it’s well known there are many factors contributing to turnout rates that have little or nothing to do with ‘enthusiasm.’”
Jon Stewart asks if CNN has checked “their own A**holes” for the missing Malaysian plane. (Mainly, I’m worried this will give the folks there an idea for a new virtual reality board segment.) Watch.
Citing Pope Francis, Archbishop of Atlanta apologizes for plan to build himself $2.2 million home.