Our KKK guy in upstate New York with the big plans for a radiation death ray reportedly planned to aim it at Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Probably important to note, again, that the FBI had him in its web already and he had no access to a radiation source. But still!
AP: “An Apple 1 from 1976, one of the first Apple computers ever built and forerunner of today’s MacBooks, IPads and IPhones, goes on the auction block at Christie’s next week. The bidding starts at $300,000 …”
Here’s what one looked like.
Michigan’s GOP-controlled Senate adjourned for the summer without passing the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare that Republican Gov. Rick Snyder had been pushing for. He’s furious and isn’t hiding it.
It’s similar to what happened in Arizona, where Gov. Jan Brewer ended up fighting her own party in the legislature to approve the expansion. Except Snyder has a legislative calendar working against him and perhaps less political clout. More here.
I must say. I love Paula Deen’s defense. It has the benefit of being both ridiculous and perhaps something her critics could actually agree about. According to the Wall Street Journal, “A representative for Paula Deen says that the 66-year-old celebrity chef used the “N-word” because she has roots in another era.” Or as you might translate this, ‘Look, she’s on the old side and pretty racist.’ Which sounds about right and sort of like the criticism rather than the defense. Read More
The highlight of Mitch McConnell’s event at AEI today was his encounter with Norm Ornstein, whom he described as a “good old-fashioned far-left guy” who has been “consistently wrong about everything.” The audience predictably ate it up.
Watch below the fold. Read More
Local Savannah TV News anchor comes to Paula Deen’s defense. You’ve got to see this. Watch after the jump … Read More
Senate Democrats have made the calculation that in exchange for Republican support on a ‘pathway to citizenship’ they’re basically willing to agree to almost any level of wasteful and in many cases needless spending on border security – moat, laser fence, 20 million border guards. But as Sen. Leahy says, it’s basically “a Christmas Wish List for Haliburton.”
Hunter Walker dug up some vignettes from Paula Deen’s memoir which helps explain some of her current predicament. Deen is candid, after a manner, about her own obliviousness to the Civil Rights Movement that was going on all around her growing up in the 50s and 60s. But she also comes off as a sort of racial Mr Magoo, perhaps not outwardly or knowingly malicious but so antediluvian in her mentality and oblivious to living in the early 21st century that she’s constantly stumbling into cringeworthy or worse racial gaffes that only her handlers save her from at the last minute. Just like her staff told her the black servant plantation wedding idea wouldn’t go over well, they also pulled her back from the brink on the “Sambo Burger.” Then there’s her childhood story about beating a young black girl with a bolo bat, an incident which ended up getting the girl’s mother thrown in jail. Read it here.
You knew it was going to be a special day on Fox when they kicked things off with “take your dog to work day”.
Now that the Senate’s immigration bill is on a glide path to passage, I want to take a minute to draw out the connection I drew between House Republicans’ inability to pass a farm bill and immigration reform in greater detail. And I think the best place to start is with a mild disagreement between Chuck Schumer and the duo of Harry Reid and Dick Durbin over whether it was worthwhile to concede enough to the GOP to garner 70-ish votes for the Senate bill. Read More