One of the two lead federal prosecutors on the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas case that seems (and I stress ‘seems’) to be connected to those two prosecutor murders in Texas has suddenly withdrawn from the case.
If you want to know why you’ll be able to buy weed at the 7/11 within ten years, look at the chart in this article.
Ben Carson: White liberals don’t like me because they’re racist.
Matt Yglesias patiently read through the National Review’s latest prescription for a conservative alternative to the Affordable Care Act, and here’s what he found.
The core of a replacement would be a change in the tax treatment of health insurance. The tax break for coverage would be flattened and capped so that people would not get a bigger break the more comprehensive their insurance. The break would also be extended to people who do not have access to employer coverage. People would be allowed to purchase health insurance across state lines. Medicaid and Medicare would be converted into subsidies–essentially add-ons to the tax break or credit for coverage–for people to buy private coverage and pay for out-of-pocket health expenses.
Matt also did the yeoman’s work of explaining for the umpteenth time why these ideas won’t work. But what I’m interested in is how persistent this particular conservative fixation is. Read More
Connecticut priest allegedly making more than $300k as a meth dealer.
Father of Newtown victim appears at NRA school violence event, applauds new NRA proposal.
And the Jon Stewart Jon Stewart defends the Egyptian Jon Stewart (aka Bassem Youssef).
A bracing, weird, fascinating and horrifying look at a year in the life of the NRA through 16 covers of their flagship magazine. Definitely give this a look.
Last Friday I did a post on how social conservatives are now complaining that they are now in a threatening climate where it’s no longer acceptable for them to say that homosexuality is wrong or that the law should discriminate against gays. It’s an odd or ingenious victimization jujitsu in which the opponents of equality claim they’re losing their rights to call gays sinful or gross or weird.
There was a good example of this this afternoon on Fox. Watch after the jump … Read More