In order to be fully transparent in the on-going mayoral crack scandal, Mayor Rob Ford’s staff has apparently ordered all staff emails and electronic records destroyed. Read More

In the last few days of the Ford crack smoking scandal, the most explosive new suggestion is that Anthony Smith, the young man pictured here hanging out with Mayor Ford, may have been murdered because of the video tape of Mayor Ford smoking crack. To date, though, the evidence for this has been pretty thin. It all stems from conversations between Mayor Ford’s new ‘logistics’ chief David Price and Ford’s former Chief of Staff Mark Towhey. On top of that, we only have anonymous accounts of what was said in those conversations. Read More

‘Somali’-Canadian shows up at City Hall press conference with crack for Mayor Ford. Video after jump … Read More

On cutting dependence on oil, Exxon CEO says: “What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?”

Due to the rather old school publishing practices of the Toronto Star I cannot link to the article until tomorrow morning (Update: here’s the link). But in tomorrow’s paper the Star reports that Mayor Rob Ford (the crack-smoking Mayor, if you haven’t been following along) knew and told his staff the apartment number and address of the apartment where his crack-smoking video was apparently being held. Read More

Police make new arrest in killing of young man tied to Mayor Ford crack scandal. Press conference later today.

Back in 2007, James Comey, Obama’s likely pick to succeed Robert Mueller as FBI director, talked at length about media subpoenas and the balancing the Justice Department does in deciding which ones to proceed with. Comey was appearing at a symposium titled “The Clash Between the First Amendment and National Security in Times of War” that was aired by CSPAN. Take a look.

NPR has a great sampling of the most ridiculous questions listeners have been asked about their race.

The friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev who was shot by the FBI during questioning last week was, contrary to initial reports from anonymous sources, unarmed.

New CBO chart shows how tax credits, loopholes and deductions overwhelmingly benefit higher income earners.