Ed Kilgore on the “enthusiasm gap” that media pundits love to chew over: “it’s well known there are many factors contributing to turnout rates that have little or nothing to do with ‘enthusiasm.’”
It looks like Obama and Kerry are seriously considering releasing Jonathan Pollard for a few scraps of blah blah and perhaps one full portion of yessing. So deeply conceived and stupid. God, I hope they don’t do this.
Last night I noted the North Korean “drones” that crashed landed just over the border into South Korea and are getting all the headlines – and that they appear to be something more like model airplanes than the sort of armed drones we mostly think about and even a good deal less advanced to the much smaller surveillance drones used by advanced militaries that do look a lot like and to an extent are high end model airplanes.
Sahil Kapur walks us through what we need to know about what’s already being called Citizens United 2.0.
Priest booked for weapons and drug violations after cops stop him for DUI.
McConnell opponent Matt Bevin speaks at rally for cock-fighting rights, says he didn’t know it was a cock-fighting rally.
Fifty-something Hannity commissions spring break “investigation” into “boobs, twerking and liquor” folkways of barely legal/early twenties crowd, discovers device called “beer bong.” Watch.
Eric Lach explains how the Supreme Court just opened yet another door for mega donors who already had plenty of avenues to spend big on politics if they wanted to.
Glenn Beck decries media “rat bastards” reporting “fairy tale” Obamacare sign up numbers.
I can’t say it’s terribly surprising given where the country is today. And it probably doesn’t hurt that there’s a Democratic president. But still … Harvey Milk commemorated on a US Postage stamp.
Wow. Take a look at the full stamp here.