Sensing the moment, Trump comes down on the imperialist side of the Denali naming faux controversy. Or on the Ohio is a swing state side. Take your pick. Here’s Ben Railton on the historical context of the Denali naming freakout.
To catch you up, the Supreme Court late yesterday dealt a blow to that Kentucky county clerk who is still refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses. She was seeking a stay of the lower court order to issue the licenses while she appealed the decision. The Supreme Court declined to issue a stay.
The only downside to the mighty fun Denali story is it stole some of the thunder from Scott Walker’s “crazy” and “pretty dumb” idea for a border wall with Canada.
Fox’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck: “Why has the Black Lives Matter movement not been classified yet as a hate group?”
Former Ohio congressman: Denali ain’t gonna be a river in Ohio!
The Daily Show had some fun with the Denali name-change last month. Watch:
This is hilarious. Unlike Ohio pols (particularly the Republican ones), the William McKinley presidential library in Canton is taking the renaming of Mt. McKinley in stride. Caitlin Cruz reports.
Aurin Squire on conservative media eager to compare the Virginia newscast shooting to the Charleston massacre: “This hyperbolic outcry is part of a longstanding practice of false equivalency—assuming that systemic racial violence towards African Americans and individual incidents of black people killing white people are one and the same.”
Ben Carson moves into tie with Trump for the lead in Iowa.