MANSPLAINING

Vladimir Putin, a man's man

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/06/04/putin-says-hillary-clinton-has-never-been-too-graceful-in-her-statements/?wprss=rss_politics&clsrd 
"It’s better not to argue with women," Putin said. "But Ms. Clinton has never been too graceful in her statements. . . . When people push boundaries too far, it’s not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman."

More: http://www.vox.com/2014/6/6/5784032/putin-quote-hillary-clinton-projection
This quote by Vladimir Putin is the greatest act of projection ever

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/gross-things-putin-has-said-to-and-about-women.html
Some Other Gross Things Vladimir Putin Has Said To and About Women

Putin's not the only jerk Hillary has to deal with

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/hillary-clinton-pokes-karl-rove-over-brain

Yes, there are domestic terrorists - and it's time to get serious about them

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/goptea-party-panic-mode-doj-announces

Ahem

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/bill-maher-points-out-obvious-why-gitmo
Bill Maher Points Out The Obvious On Why Gitmo Prisoners Can't Be Tried - We Tortured Them

The problem with market-based education reform

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/08/capitalism_vs_education_why_our_free_market_obsessions_are_wrecking_the_future/

Has the time really come when news networks can only describe real events in terms of similarities to fictional shows?

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/07/cnn_stop_comparing_bowe_bergdahl_to_nicholas_brody/

The Sunday talk show line-ups

http://my.firedoglake.com/elliott/2014/06/07/sunday-talking-heads-june-8-2014/
ABC’S THIS WEEK: Preview of Diane Sawyer’s interview with Hillary Clinton on her new book, Hard Choices. Plus, House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) on Bowe Bergdahl. Then, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray (D) on $15 an hour minimum wage. Roundtable: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), Matthew Dowd, Alicia Menendez, Bill Richardson, Paul Gigot, Katrina vanden Heuvel. Ending with Nate Silver‘s World Cup predictions.  

CBS’ FACE THE NATION: On Bowe Bergdahl with Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and ranking member Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-SC). Then, journalist David Rohde “who was captured by the Taliban while reporting in Afghanistan in 2008.” Roundtable: Tom Friedman, Peggy Noonan, David Gergen, Michael Gerson.  

CNN’S STATE OF THE UNION: On Bowe Bergdahl with Secretary of State John Kerry, then Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Also, retired Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis, retired Lt. Gen. William Boykin, and retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton. Roundtable: Donna Brazile, Jackie Calmes, Ana Navarro – “backlash from the Bergdahl deal, and how the Democrats’ claims of a “War on Women” may be backfiring on one of their own.”

MOYERS & COMPANY: How Tax Reform Can Save the Middle Class. Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz says corporate tax abuse has helped make America unequal and undemocratic. But the Nobel Prize-winner has a plan to change that.  

NBC’S MEET THE PRESS: Preempted by the French Open.

Bonus item: Let's go after the REAL cause of climate change

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/here-comes-sun-and-its-trying-to-kill.html



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I SAW IT ON "HOMELAND"!

Let's check in with what's happening over in Fox World, shall we?

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/oh-noes-fox-cites-secret-documents-showing
Fox Cites Secret Documents Showing Bergdahl Converted To Islam

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/06/1304922/-Fox-News-wonders-if-returned-POW-is-now-an-Islamic-warrior
Fox News wonders if returned POW is now an 'Islamic warrior'

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/06/fox_news_new_transformation_how_bowe_bergdahl_went_from_pow_to_terrorist/
How Bowe Bergdahl went from POW to terrorist

But there's even more!

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/fox-news-host-sgt-bergdahl-lucky-he-wasnt
Fox News Host: Sgt. Bergdahl Lucky He Wasn't Put In Body Bag By U.S. Troops

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/06/gop_senator_critical_of_bergdahl_deal_skips_briefing_to_appear_on_fox_news/
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, ranking member on the Select Committee on Intelligence, has been one of the administration’s most vocal critics in this regard. Claiming he was promised he’d get prior notice before the deal went through, Chambliss recently said, “I don’t believe a thing this president says now.”  

Yet on Wednesday, Chambliss decided to leave a White House briefing on the deal early, in order to appear on Fox News and criticize the administration for not being more forthright with information. . . .

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/tucker-carlson-says-its-ludicrous-call
Tucker Carlson Says It's Ludicrous To Call Statutory Rape 'Rape'

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/fox-chyron-slams-girls-being-more-likely
Fox Chyron Slams Girls For Being "More Likely To Have Hateful Little Minds"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/04/1304411/-Fox-News-responds-to-wave-of-pro-marriage-equality-decisions-by-not-mentioning-them
Fox News responds to wave of pro-marriage equality decisions by not mentioning them

Really, Rand Paul?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/jeez-really
"Mr. President, let's set up a new trade. Instead of 5 Taliban, let's trade 5 Democrats!"

No, Obamacare didn't cost jobs - it has created them

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2014/06/06/since-obamacare-passed-50-months-ago-healthcare-has-gained-almost-1-million-jobs/

Yes, they grow them different down in Texas

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/what-makes-the-texas-republican-party-special
Looking back over the last several years, there’s always been something truly hysterical – in more ways than one – about the official platforms adopted by the Texas Republican Party. Year in and year out, it’s consistently one of the more astounding documents one will find in 21st century American politics.   

This year’s platform will keep the tradition alive. . . . [read on]

Bonus item: Aryan Nation

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/06/1304877/-Midday-open-thread-Duck-Dynasty-Bible-HRC-wanted-to-arm-Syrian-rebels-but-Obama-said-no

Here are the FOX NEWS reporters. Notice anything?

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THREE STOOGES

What were three Chris McDaniel (R-MS) supporters doing locked overnight in the courthouse where the senate ballots were kept?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/stories-not-adding-up-or-matching-up

Key witness in the McDaniel Ballot/Courthouse caper explains that the trio's stories are not adding up or even matching up.  . . .

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sheriff-s-office-refutes-mcdaniel-camp-account-of-courthouse-caper
Sheriff's Office: McDaniel Camp Account Of Courthouse Caper A 'Fabrication'

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/06/05/what_were_mcdaniel_staffers_doing_inside_courthouse.html
"Hinds County Circuit Clerk Barbara Dunn says it would be virtually impossible to tamper with ballots after they make it to her office. All ballots including absentee were locked inside a vault in her office, which was locked when everyone left Tuesday night between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m."

More: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/chris-mcdaniels-cry-for-help
I've arrived at the only reasonable explanation for the emerging situation in Mississippi. Chris McDaniel is in a desperate battle to revive Thad Cochran's career but Cochran simply will not throw him a bone. There may even be some Odysseus type sh#t going on. McDaniel is essentially telling Cochran, "How crazy a thing do my people need to do before you bury me with it? We broke into the nursing home. My people showed up to chill with the ballot boxes in the middle of the night after the election officials left. And just to close the loop, we put out a statement saying that we, the campaign, me, us, me, told them to go there."  

As I said on election night, the real question here, the centerpiece of the campaign is, what crazy thing with Team McDaniel manage to do next and how will Thad Cochran manage not to capitalize on it? . . .

Ronald Reagan, GOP icon, would have trouble in the party today

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/would-reagan-have-survived-the-tea-party

Bowe Bergdahl's home town forced to cancel welcome home event

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/05/1304675/-Bergdahl-s-hometown-flooded-with-hateful-calls-cancels-celebration-in-interest-of-public-safety

Jobs

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/5/5782482/were-about-to-learn-weve-got-back-all-the-jobs-lost-in-the-recession
We're about to learn we've got back all the jobs lost in the recession

More: http://my.firedoglake.com/dakine01/2014/06/04/may-2014-jobs-reports-good-news-bad-news/
Good News, Bad News

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/05/this-is-why-its-so-hard-to-define-unemployment/
This is why it's so hard to define unemployment

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/5/5780602/job-polarization-has-been-much-kinder-to-women-than-men
Middle class jobs are disappearing — and women are handling it better than men

Death penalty support continues to decline 

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2014/06/05/death-penalty-losing-support-in-america/ 

Polling in Fox World

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/adventures-fox-news-polling-part-vii
“A U.S. marine who mistakenly crossed the border with registered guns in his vehicle has been held as a prisoner in a Mexican jail for two months. Do you think President Obama should publicly demand that the marine be returned to the U.S. immediately, or is it better for the president not to talk publicly about it?”

More: “Who do you think receives better health care – prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay or U.S. military veterans?”

Bonus item: Hypocrite of the week

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/hypocrite-of-week-ollie-north-and-there.html

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WHERE DO THEY FIND THESE PEOPLE?

Today's GOP

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/oh-good-times
One day after losing primary, GOP Senate candidate hit with multiple count perjury arrest warrant tied to election fraud. Seems like just yesterday she was running this bizarre video calling for gun safety and religion classes in schools. . . .

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/courthouse-story-getting-weirder
Late this afternoon Dylan Scott reported on the quite odd story of how a close ally of Senate challenger Chris McDaniel had ended up locked in the Courthouse where ballots are stored at around 2 am the morning after primary night. Well, things seem to have gotten a good deal more interesting over the last six hours or so. Now it turns out that one of the two other people with Janis Lane, President of the Central Mississippi Tea Party, was none other than an actual campaign official with the McDaniel campaign. And there's more.  

According to a late report from the Clarion Ledger, the campaign official is Scott Brewster, former state campaign coordinator for Newt Gingrich's presidential bid in 2012 and now the McDaniel campaign's coalition director.  

More notably, the Hinds County Sheriff's office seems a good deal more suspicious than it did this afternoon. . . .

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/05/19/the-gop-senate-candidates-climate-skeptics-and-believers-in-personhood/

Are IUD's abortion technology? The case of Ohio

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/4/5779338/ohio-republicans-want-to-stop-women-from-using-iuds

More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/04/1304348/-IU-WTF-Ohio

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_05/where_do_you_stand_on_an_iud_b050417.php

The impossible life of gay Republicans

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/conservative-homophobes-kill-goproud

More from the right-wing echo machine on the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner exchange

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379481/why-team-obama-was-blindsided-bergdahl-backlash-ralph-peters
Congratulations, Mr. President! And identical congrats to your sorcerer’s apprentice, National Security Adviser Susan Rice. By trying to sell him as an American hero, you’ve turned a deserter already despised by soldiers in the know into quite possibly the most-hated individual soldier in the history of our military. . . .

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/04/1304329/-Fox-News-expert-says-POW-swap-shows-Obama-wants-out-of-America
Fox News regular Keith Ablow speculated on Wednesday morning that President Obama orchestrated the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five Taliban prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay because the commander-in-chief “doesn’t affiliate with patriotism” and “wants out of America.”  . . . 

Koch addiction

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/04/citizen_koch_the_movie_about_our_sick_democracy_pbs_tried_to_kill/
“Citizen Koch”

Think about it

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/05/google-glass-guns-disaster.html
Google Glass+Guns=Disaster

Bonus item: Yeah, right

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-secret-service-wants-software-that-detects-sarcasm-yeah-good-luck/2014/06/03/35bb8bd0-eb41-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html?wprss=rss_politics

Secret Service wants software that detects sarcasm on social media. (Yeah, good luck.)

More: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/06/computers-are-still-terrible-at-getting-sarcasm.html

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BAD BEHAVIOR

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/bowe-bergdahl_n_5440532.html
The Bowe Bergdahl Controversy Could Be Politics At Its Very Worst

The worst of the worst

http://tinyurl.com/n6efnmb
The right’s unhinged Bergdahl hypocrisy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/bowe-bergdahl-release_n_5439644.html
GOP Urged White House To 'Do All It Can' To Get Bowe Bergdahl

http://my.firedoglake.com/phoenix/2014/06/03/the-article-on-bowe-bergdahl-the-gop-doesnt-want-you-to-read/
When the Republicans scream that they were caught totally by surprise by the prisoner exchange that in all likelihood marks the winding down of the US war on Afghanistan, they are of course lying. . . .

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/03/cnn-lets-john-mccain-off-the-hook-for-shifting/199561
Cuomo might have asked McCain about contradictory remarks he made on the same network four months ago, when the senator expressed support about the possibility of a prisoner exchange for Bergdahl. . . .

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/mccains-reversals-bowe-bergdahl
McCain’s reversals on Bowe Bergdahl

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/06/04/republicans_delete_digital_praise_of_soldier_release.html
"At least three prominent Republicans appeared to offer praise on Twitter for the rescue of American POW Bowe Bergdahl -- only to later backtrack, scrubbing their tweets or websites of any mention of the soldier . . . ." 

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conservatives-impeachment-obama-bergdahl
Conservatives Go From Zero To Impeachment In Record Time On Bergdahl

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/03/wingnuts_war_on_the_troops_the_ugly_lesson_of_bowe_berdahl_and_sarah_palin/
Wingnuts’ war on the troops: The ugly lesson of Bowe Bergdahl and Sarah Palin

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/gop-strategists-helping-bergdahls-critics.html
Republican Strategists Are Helping Bowe Bergdahl’s Critics

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/ex-bush-administration-official-george
Ex-Bush Official: GWB Would Have Made Same Deal

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/04/the-bowe-bergdahl-story-is-right-wing-crack.html
Never mind that Bush would have done the same as Obama. Republicans are hitting the pipe big time on the ‘deserter’—and their creepy bottom line is that he should have been left to die. . . .

In Fox World: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/oreilly-bob-bergdahl-looks-muslim 
O'Reilly Bashes Bergdahl's Dad: He 'Looks Like A Muslim'

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/fox-host-attacks-bowe-bergdahls-father-you
Fox Host Attacks Bowe Bergdahl's Father: You 'Look Like A Member Of The Taliban' 

And on Obama's climate change policies. . .

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/04/the_8_most_absurd_reactions_to_obamas_new_climate_change_mandate_partner/
The 8 most absurd reactions . . .

A headline to laugh over

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/us/politics/as-obama-acts-on-pollution-and-bergdahl-gop-talks-of-eroding-trust.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
As Obama Acts on Pollution and Bergdahl, G.O.P. Talks of an Erosion of Trust

Yesterday the NRA ridiculed gun nuts in Texas. Today they are already apologizing for it

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/nra-apologizes-open-carry-texas

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/nra-goes-damage-control-blaming-rogue

Bonus item: A new world

http://prospect.org/article/facial-recognition-and-loss-anonymity
Facial Recognition and the Loss of Anonymity

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DEAL

Here come the Bowe Bergdahl conspiracy theories

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/guide-to-bowe-bergdahl-conspiracy-theories.html

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/06/02/the-four-gop-arguments-against-bringing-back-bowe-bergdahl/

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/06/bowe_bergdahl_and_negotiating_with_the_taliban_why_the_deal_to_free_this.html
What People Don’t Understand About the Bergdahl Deal

The Repubs had a simple, if dishonest message: "Repeal Obamacare." Now that they've abandoned it, they are twisting in knots to describe their views

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/02/1303795/-NYT-Republicans-replace-repeal-with-incoherent-nbsp-mishmash
Sometimes the dissonance reaches nearly comic levels. . . .

More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/02/1303208/-Rand-Paul-says-Kentucky-can-keep-Obamacare-while-repealing-it-too

Rand Paul says Kentucky can keep Obamacare while repealing it too

Is a "war on coal" such a bad idea?

http://prospect.org/article/maybe-its-time-we-did-declare-war-coal

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/02/the_gops_deadly_war_on_coal_lie/

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_06/the_climate_changes_regs_is_th050585.php

The kind of people they are

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/effigy-president-obama-found-hanging-over
Effigy Of President Obama Found Hanging Over Bridge In Missouri

Pathetic

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/02/the-gop-candidate-in-arizona-who-changed-his-name-to-cesar-chavez.html
Scott Fistler wasn’t having any success running for office as a white Republican in Arizona. So he switched parties and changed his name to Cesar Chavez.
 

The gun nuts who are even too nutty for the NRA

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/even-nra-sees-some-open-carry-tactics-wei

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/nra-slams-open-carry-groups-texas-calls

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/03/gun_nuts_aim_at_each_other_inside_nras_fight_with_open_carry_lunatics/

The John Oliver piece on net neutrality that everyone is talking about

http://my.firedoglake.com/elliott/2014/06/02/net-neutrality-john-oliver-issues-a-call-to-arms-for-internet-commenters-everywhere/

Bonus item: Don't miss it - the kind of people we elect to high office, around the world

https://www.youtube.com/embed/4CYqw4s6XF8?rel=0

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CAPITAL

The debate over Thomas Piketty's new book

http://tinyurl.com/kgms4ow
The real reason Thomas Piketty has taken America by storm 

http://firedoglake.com/2014/05/18/democrats-try-to-cope-with-piketty/
Democrats Try to Cope With Piketty

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/23/5745698/ft-piketty-data-undercut-by-a-series-of-problems-and-errors 
FT: Piketty data "undercut by a series of problems and errors"

More: http://my.firedoglake.com/elliott/2014/05/31/the-anti-piketty-book-is-out/

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/02/pikettys_haters_fail_again_destroying_five_new_lies_designed_to_discredit_capital/ 

http://firedoglake.com/2014/05/25/piketty-and-his-critics-chapter-1/#

http://firedoglake.com/2014/05/28/piketty-and-his-critics-chapter-2-and-lets-keep-fdl-up/

Obama's new climate change regs

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/1/5770556/EPA-power-plant-rules-explainer

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/obamas_power_plant_rule_leaked_epa_seeks_drastic_reduction_in_emissions/

Ten state elections to watch in the fall

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/01/1302880/-The-Daily-Kos-Elections-Power-Rankings-The-States

Right? Wrong!

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/02/nras_constitutional_fraud_the_truth_behind_the_right_to_bear_arms/
NRA’s constitutional fraud: The truth behind the “right to bear arms” 

A constituency of One

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/06/02/cain_suggests_god_might_want_him_to_run_again.html
Cain Suggests God Might Want Him to Run Again

In case you missed the Sunday talk shows

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/01/sunday-shows-republicans-blast-decision-to-trade-taliban-members-for-sgt-bergdahl/?wprss=rss_politics&clsrd
Republicans blast decision to trade Taliban members for Bergdahl

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/02/bowe-bergdahl-is-the-right-s-new-benghazi.html
Bowe Bergdahl Is the Right’s New Benghazi

More: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/not-everyone-happy-with-the-release-of-bergdahl.html

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/right_wingers_lash_out_at_obama_over_bergdahl_exchange/
 
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/01/fact-checking-the-sunday-shows-june-1.html
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/us/politics/bowe-bergdahl.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Administration Defends Swap With Taliban to Free U.S. Soldier

Bonus item: Whee!

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/5_craziest_laws_passed_by_gop_legislators_just_this_month_partner/

5 craziest laws passed by GOP legislators — just this month

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CLIMATE CHANGE

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/politics/obama-sets-the-stage-for-curbing-emissions.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
Using Executive Powers, Obama Begins His Last Big Push on Climate Policy

More: http://www.vox.com/2014/5/31/5761574/broader-context-for-obamas-upcoming-power-plant-rules
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/upshot/climate-change-or-global-warming-tough-choice-for-pollsters.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Americans More Worried About ‘Warming’ Than ‘Climate Change’

Is "Republican Leadership" an oxymoron?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-republican-leadership-conference-the-struggle-over-the-gops-future-continues/2014/05/31/50356ca4-e8f5-11e3-a70e-ea1863229397_story.html?wprss=rss_politics

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/05/31/gop-takes-a-break-from-infighting/?wprss=rss_politics&clsrd

The party of gimmicks

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_05/what_a_party_circling_the_drai050563.php

More: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_05/republicans_are_getting_left_b050570.php

Obama brings home a captured American soldier, but of course the Repubs find a way to turn it into a negative

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/05/taliban-releases-captured-american-soldier.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bergdahl-release-arrangement-could-threaten-the-safety-of-americans-republicans-say/2014/05/31/35e47a2a-e8ff-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html?wprss=rss_politics

Your (almost) daily Christie

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/31/chris_christie_quietly_implodes_why_his_big_accomplishments_have_fallen_to_pieces/

Saving face

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/05/nsa-collecting-gazillions-faces-website
NSA Is Collecting Gazillions Of Faces From Website 

The Sunday talk show line-ups

http://my.firedoglake.com/elliott/2014/06/01/sunday-talking-heads-june-1-2014/
ABC’S THIS WEEK: National Security Advisor Susan Rice. Then, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Roundtable: Bill Kristol, Tavis Smiley, New Yorker editor David Remnick, Peggy Noonan. Ending with a look at the life of Maya Angelou.  

CBS’ FACE THE NATION: VA scandal with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Robert Wallace, VFW Executive Director. Also, Gen. Michael Hayden. Roundtable: David Ignatius of The Washington Post, David E. Sanger of The New York Times, Leigh Gallagher of Fortune magazine, CBS Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes.  

CNN’S STATE OF THE UNION: National Security Advisor Susan Rice. Then, President Obama’s foreign policy with House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers, General Jim Jones, and diplomat Nick Burns. Also, former Senator Jim Webb. Plus, Neera Tanden and Kristen Soltis Anderson on Hillary Clinton’s upcoming book.

MOYERS & COMPANY: Let’s Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz on why America’s future prosperity depends on tax reform today.  

NBC’S MEET THE PRESS: VA scandal with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, then Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Paul Rieckhoff, Founder and Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). Next, Michael Bloomberg on gun control – also security, surveillance and the Snowden debate. Chuck Todd with Snowden debate poll numbers. Then, Maria Shriver on the independent candidate Marianne Williamson’s run for U. S. Congress from CA-33. Also, noting the 70th anniversary of D-Day, Tom Brokaw with filmmaker George Stevens, Jr., son of filmmaker George Stevens, Sr. Roundtable: Chuck Todd, Rana Forhoohar, Jane Harman, Newt Gingrich.

Bonus item: The parts of the Bible theocrats like to pretend aren't there

http://tinyurl.com/kgms4ow

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