Editors’ Blog - 2014
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11.20.14 | 5:27 pm
Get Ready for More of This

Voter suppression kingpin and anti-immigrant hardliner Kris Kobach predicts “ethnic cleansing” in America because of Obama immigration executive order.

11.20.14 | 8:47 pm
Obama Gets Angry

Tonight Obama challenged the GOP. Don’t like what I’m doing? Pass a bill. Here’s also everything you need to know about Obama’s executive action on immigration.

11.21.14 | 9:13 am
Longtime Racist, Last Time Caller

Our brief history of those iconic moments of awful when blithering racists break through into the civic arcadia of CSPAN’s Washington Journal.

(Special thanks for headline inspiration to this gentleman.)

11.21.14 | 12:41 pm
Horrific and Heartwarming

Ricky Jackson was just released from prison after his main accuser recanted the testimony that sent him to prison for murder in 1975. Yes, after almost 40 years behind bars. Look at the picture in the article. I can almost can’t bear to look at it.

11.21.14 | 1:59 pm
No Doubt Ready to Move Forward

For Republicans saying why not give us some time to see if we can pass reform, remember: just before leaving town to campaign this fall, the GOP House voted to deport all Dreamers.

11.21.14 | 2:52 pm
But The Dream Will Never Die

Sen. Sessions tells GOPers: Sorry, Guys. We’re not going to impeach President Obama.

11.21.14 | 4:47 pm
Is Rand Paul Trolling Himself?

Sen. Paul says immigration executive order is like Japanese internment camp order.

11.21.14 | 11:20 pm
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11.22.14 | 3:56 pm
More on Christie’s Ditched Ebola Policy

Courtesy of TPM Reader FN we have some more information on Chris Christie’s crackpot Ebola policy, which he seems to have quietly ditched after no one was looking. FN flags this piece just published by NJ.com which suggests that Christie simply never implemented the policy. But not before finding an abandoned psychiatric hospital, Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital, in Hunterdon Country where asymptomatic health care workers returning from West Africa would be confined – and not before racking up 500 hours of police overtime hours to guard the abandoned facility even though no one was there.

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