Are there wholesome children’s books that cater to your pro-open carry lifestyle? There are now. “My Parents Open Carry” has just debuted so we can make sure young children are more acquainted with ubiquitous gun ownership.
Rep. Amash (R-MI) goes off on establishment challenger’s “despicable smear” campaign after defeating him in tough primary.
One of the most amazing bits of verbal gymnastics in recent memory. How the Tea Party made mentioning race or calling out racism into “race baiting.”
Ed Kilgore says the Tea Party is losing battles but winning the war. And in terms of moving the party every further right, he’s correct.
Well, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas by way of Virginia) actually pulled off defeating his tea party challenger Milton Wolf, who is actually a distant cousin of Obama’s.
Could Rep. Huelskamp (R-KS), part of the shutdown caucus, actually lose his seat tonight? He’s ahead, but it’s close.
UPDATE: Huelskamp survives.
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI), an ex-reindeer farmer who “dreamed” of impeaching Obama once, was defeated in tonight’s primary.
Police seize semi-automatic rifles, ammunition, body armor and smoke grenades from home of Cleveland area judge.
National Counterterrorism Center tips off the AP to get ahead of a story brought to the center for comment by Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux at the Intercept.
I mentioned yesterday the question of why these two American doctors happened to have gotten what may have been a life saving treatment for Ebola when hundreds of people in Africa have already died in the current outbreak. The cynical explanation is that American lives just count for more than Africans from impoverished countries – and I don’t rule out some element of that. But when I first heard this story the big thing that jumped out to me was the issue of informed consent. Because this treatment was so new as to almost not amount to a treatment – more like a promising research lead. And the history of using humans as essentially human guinea pigs is, to put it mildly, a very dark history. Here’s an email from TPM Reader HB which throws some more light on the question …
You ask: “So how are we only hearing about this treatment when two American aid workers came down with the disease after going on 800 people have died in the current outbreak in three countries in Africa?”