It’s Mitch’s Revenge Obama: Kiss your executive appointments goodbye starting next year. Sahil Kapur has the story.

Columnist who wrote that Michael Brown was an “animal” who had to be “put down” is now “no longer employed” by his paper.

Leader of self-styled ‘militia’ whose leaders took it upon themselves to start patrolling the US-Mexico border was arrested earlier this month. When feds searched his hotel room they found a big cache of weapons and a supply of ammonium nitrate which is of course used for making car bombs and other similar high explosive devices for freedom.

Today’s must-read: Rick Hasen takes on putting Texas back under federal voter supervision.

Candidate: Despite my Neo-Nazi past, “I am not a hater.”

Jon Stewart: Dems trying to flip Texas like a drunk man hitting on a lesbian. Watch.

The Redskins are suing 5 Native Americans over use of term “Redskins.”

Columnist who lost his job over saying Michael Brown was “an animal” who “had to be put down” now says he always thought Brown “deserved to die and I was right.”

Party groups around the country are sending voters mailers telling you if you don’t vote they’ll find out and they may tell your neighbors. There’s exactly a body of social science data showing this works. But, just creepy and dumb.

A state judge in Maine just drop-kicked out of his courtroom the arguments from pseudo-scientists like Paul LePage and Chris Christie for quarantining Kaci Hickox, ruling that the nurse should not have restrictions on her movement.

“The court is fully aware of the misconceptions, misinformation, bad science and bad information being spread from shore to shore in our country with respect to Ebola,” he wrote, according to the AP. “The court is fully aware that people are acting out of fear and that this fear is not entirely rational.”