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09.12.14 | 11:04 am
The Den Of Dark Money

Is Arizona becoming the Cayman Islands of Dark Money?

09.12.14 | 8:35 am
Alaska Riot Exposes White Culture of Lawlessness, Violence

Palin Clan Reportedly Involved In Epic ‘Dog Pile’ Fistfight At Snowmobile Party

“It’s something to hear when Sarah screams, ‘Don’t you know who I am!’ And it was particularly wonderful when someone in the crowd screamed back, ‘This isn’t some damned Hillbilly reality show!'”

09.11.14 | 11:17 pm
Security Concerns at Prison Where School Shooter Escaped

An April inspection of the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution – the facility from which convicted school shooter T.J. Lane escaped – rated the prison “good” but noted concerns with the management of “higher security inmates.”

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09.11.14 | 9:54 pm
What the Hell?

Notorious school shooter T.J. Lane escapes from prison in Lima, Ohio.

More soon.

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09.11.14 | 6:38 pm
The Jeremy Heath Higginses of the World

Meet Jeremy Heath Higgins (text from a Department of Justice news release) …

Jeremy Heath Higgins, 28, a resident of Quinton, Alabama, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Madeline Haikala to two counts of federal civil rights violations, announced the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama.

As part of the plea proceedings, Higgins admitted that on June 14, 2013, he approached and threatened an African-American man at the Alabama Rose Steakhouse, a restaurant in Quinton, Alabama, because the man was present at the restaurant with a white woman.

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09.11.14 | 6:28 pm
Onion ISIS Convergence

More evidence we’ve blown through into the Monty Python phase of ISIS hysteria reporting.

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09.11.14 | 3:00 pm
You’ll Want to Read This

Bracing? Overstated? A mix of both. But there’s an undeniable point TPM Reader JB makes here. No one bats a 1000% at this …

To me the most notable thing looking back on 9/11 13 years later is how crystal clear it is now that it was an anomalous event and not, contrary to all the rhetoric of the time, the dawn of a new era of domestic terrorism. The fact that basically nothing analogous – meaning a domestic terror attack planned and executed by foreigners or local cells funded by Al Queda or like groups — has happened in the 13 years since is pretty incredible and unexpected. Perhaps more surprising still is that the only viable explanation for the dearth of attacks is that terrorists motivated to carry out attacks inside the United States do not exist.

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09.11.14 | 2:46 pm
All Out in the Open Now

Georgia’s top election official now openly lamenting and warning about “all these minority voters” being registered by Democrats.

09.11.14 | 2:22 pm
Finally Getting to the Bottom of This

Finally, after a lot of game-playing, the NFL has ordered a full and independent investigation into the handling of the Ray Rice case under the supervision of two of the commissioner’s top supporters.

09.11.14 | 1:51 pm
13 Years Later, 9/11 Still Taking Devastating Toll on Marketing Idiots

Yoga Studio plugs “9+11= 20% off” Sale. And believe it or not, it went downhill from there.