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10.31.14 | 1:44 pm
A Big Win For Science And Rationality

A state judge in Maine just drop-kicked out of his courtroom the arguments from pseudo-scientists like Paul LePage and Chris Christie for quarantining Kaci Hickox, ruling that the nurse should not have restrictions on her movement.

“The court is fully aware of the misconceptions, misinformation, bad science and bad information being spread from shore to shore in our country with respect to Ebola,” he wrote, according to the AP. “The court is fully aware that people are acting out of fear and that this fear is not entirely rational.”

10.31.14 | 12:17 pm
This Works But It’s Dumb

Party groups around the country are sending voters mailers telling you if you don’t vote they’ll find out and they may tell your neighbors. There’s exactly a body of social science data showing this works. But, just creepy and dumb.

10.31.14 | 12:07 pm
Lesson Learned, I Guess

Columnist who lost his job over saying Michael Brown was “an animal” who “had to be put down” now says he always thought Brown “deserved to die and I was right.”

10.31.14 | 11:59 am
Okay. This is Actually Happening

The Redskins are suing 5 Native Americans over use of term “Redskins.”

10.31.14 | 8:11 am
Something Only He Could Say

Jon Stewart: Dems trying to flip Texas like a drunk man hitting on a lesbian. Watch.

10.31.14 | 8:02 am
I Feel Reassured By This

Candidate: Despite my Neo-Nazi past, “I am not a hater.”

10.30.14 | 3:59 pm
Messing With Texas

Today’s must-read: Rick Hasen takes on putting Texas back under federal voter supervision.

10.30.14 | 1:02 pm
Battle for Constitutiony Border Continues

Leader of self-styled ‘militia’ whose leaders took it upon themselves to start patrolling the US-Mexico border was arrested earlier this month. When feds searched his hotel room they found a big cache of weapons and a supply of ammonium nitrate which is of course used for making car bombs and other similar high explosive devices for freedom.

10.30.14 | 12:48 pm
Thanks, Obama

Columnist who wrote that Michael Brown was an “animal” who had to be “put down” is now “no longer employed” by his paper.

10.30.14 | 10:44 am
Get Ready

It’s Mitch’s Revenge Obama: Kiss your executive appointments goodbye starting next year. Sahil Kapur has the story.