Big news on the Scott Walker breaking. And not good news at all. More in moments.
I thought I’d take a moment to say my piece on the blossoming controversy over the Redskins being called “the Redskins.”
I imagine I’m like many my age who at one level just intuitively think about the Redskins and the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves as just part of the natural landscape of American culture. Even now, when I think about the Redskins, part of me is like, ‘We’ve been saying this forever.’
Colbert Mocks Fox Reaction To Benghazi Arrest: Hillary Still At Large! Watch.
The McDaniel campaign is pissed and a bit freaked that Thad Cochran is heavily courting Mississippi’s African-American community for the Senate runoff later this month.
First of all, if you’re interested in the Mississippi Senate race, you need to be following following Sam Hall, a reporter with the Clarion-Ledger. He’s just the man on this race. And he’s got an active Twitter which is a good way of keeping up on the race. I mention him because I just saw this article he filed today on this fascinating, very awkward or perhaps delicate dimension of the Cochran-McDaniel runoff.
Obama raids Redskins by weaponizing USPTO. Cancels Redskins logo! Free people will not tolerate a Kim Jong POTUS.
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) June 18, 2014
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Not sure which is the hook to this story: that the guy accidentally shot himself in the penis while trying to holster his gun or that he only realized he’d shot his penis a while later when he got to his friend’s house.
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Fresh on the heels of the shooting of a BLM agent near the California/Nevada border by a “sovereign citizen” far right activist, Carbon County, Utah, has, I guess you’d call it, seceded from the BLM.
By a unanimous vote, the County no longer recognizes the BLM’s authority and any action within the county’s borders will be deemed an “AN IMMINENT THREAT” to its citizens. Of course, the BLM has been in the news of late because of the Bundy Ranch standoff, which the Carbon County resolution appears to be inspired by.
Interestingly, Carbon is known as a pretty Democratic county, as Utah goes. It voted for Bill Clinton twice and Barack Obama managed to get 45% of the vote in 2008.