In each state we have our own senators. But we all have a national interest in the kind of people who get the Senate, whether they have extremist beliefs or are simply dangerous in a general sense. Which brings us to Iowa’s Joni Ernst. As we reported exclusively on Friday, Ernst told supporters that she supports allowing your county Sheriff to arrest federal officials who are involved in implementing the Affordable Care Act. This is thinking right off the Bundy Ranch and the militia compounds up in the inland Northwest – preposterous in terms of US law and insane in general terms. And she stands a good chance of joining the US Senate next year. We’ve had fringers militia types of this variety in the House before. But it’s been a very long time since one has slipped into the Senate.
Sam Wang responds to Nate Silver’s latest fusillade: My system has been more accurate than Nate’s.
It seems like SCOTUS just moon-walked Same Sex Marriage into law.
(More detailed and less lyrical analysis coming shortly.)
Effort to walk to Bermuda in floating human-sized hamster wheel for peace comes to naught.
Naomi Wolf, onetime sane person, goes full ISIS truther, suggesting beheadings staged, families actually actors.
I’ve had a running series of exchanges and arguments with people who say: I’m no Ebola Truther but the folks down in Dallas clearly screwed things up so how are we supposed to trust the CDC not to goof nationwide. Here’s my argument.
From the Baton Rouge Advocate …
Fears of a national Ebola epidemic hit close to home in Baton Rouge on Friday night, when a Police Department precinct on Highland Road evacuated about 30 officers after a man suffering from dementia walked in saying he needed medical attention.
Although there was no evidence that the man suffered from Ebola-like symptoms, miscommunication over his origins led to concerns that he could have contracted the disease in Africa, said Cpl. L’Jean McKneely, a Baton Rouge Police spokesman.
Pam Mazanec, a member of the Colorado state Board of Education currently leading the charge against those AP US History standards, apparently thinks that the US is one of the few countries to have abolished slavery.
Yes, we practiced slavery. But we also ended it voluntarily, at great sacrifice, while the practice continues in many countries still today! … This is part of the argument that America is exceptional.
Iowa GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst backed arresting federal officials attempting to implement Obamacare.
There’s a new meme emerging on the right which I’ve noticed in the last 24 hours. It goes like this: The ‘government’ or President Obama promised Ebola wouldn’t or couldn’t get to the United States. But now it’s here. So people, the argument goes, are rightly worried that the ‘government’ is lying to them or isn’t telling them the whole story. In other words, when you see the next ignoramus on Fox News jonesing on about how he’s not going to be a patsy for the virology elite, that’s the story.