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12.11.14 | 11:19 am
How Did That Not Work?

So USAID tried to use a Serbian music promoter to infiltrate the Cuban underground hip hop scene to overthrow the Castro regime – with about the results you’d expect.

12.11.14 | 11:04 am
I Think We’ve Seen This Movie

So Jeb Bush is prepping for his presidential campaign by running private equity funds that specialize in setting up investments to help foreign investors avoid US taxes?

12.11.14 | 8:15 am
Forum Shopping For the Win?

Virtually no legal experts believe Republicans have standing, let alone a case, to challenge President Obama’s recent immigration order. But through some clever forum shopping, they may have found the one trial court judge – an anti-Obama, anti-immigration hardliner in Texas – who will rule in their favor.

12.11.14 | 2:11 am
Evolving Gender Roles?

TV and video game actor Dimitri Diatchenko charged with killing and cooking ex’s pet rabbit.

12.10.14 | 4:00 pm
One of the More Mind-Boggling Stories Today

State employee in Washington state says she was a virtual “sex slave” of her supervisor for seven years.

12.10.14 | 2:44 pm
My Live Chat at 3pm

Join me at 3 PM for my live chat at The Hive (sub req).

12.10.14 | 1:57 pm
Is Netanyahu Finished?

Unless you’re on the far right of Israeli politics, this has been an incredibly depressing few months in, for and about Israel. Amidst all the awful, last week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his erstwhile coalition partner (the politically inept) Yair Lapid’s bluff and booted him out of the governing coalition. This meant Netanyahu had to call for new elections (now scheduled for March). And it was universally assumed that this would lead to a strengthening of the parties of the right and thus a strengthening of Netanyahu’s hand.

But since then something weird has happened in the Israeli body politic.

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12.10.14 | 12:07 pm
Dems Done in “the South”? Who Cares

Ed Kilgore says it’s time for the Dems to stop agonizing and get over being shut out in the Deep South. Who cares.

12.10.14 | 11:22 am
And Another

Yet another Red State prepping to shift gears and buy in to Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.

12.10.14 | 10:29 am
Yarrrrrrrrrr!

In face of torture report, Fox News yacker completely loses it. “America is awesome!!!” Watch.