CIVICS LESSONS

Keystone XL pipeline fails by one vote (big loser: Mary Landrieu (D-LA)

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/senate-keystone-xl-vote-fails-clear

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/senate-democrats-reject-keystone-xl-pipeline.html

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/18/keystone_xl_bill_dies_in_the_senate/

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/18/7243885/keystone-bill-fails-senate

Let's make a deal? http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/can-obama-trade-keystone-for-something.html

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/obama-eyes-possible-trade-keystone-pipeline

Bad

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/18/7241987/usa-freedom-senate-vote
The Senate rejected a bill to limit NSA spying

More: http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/11/18/obama-endorses-faux-nsa-reform/

Trouble ahead in Ferguson, Missouri?

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/19/a_racial_state_of_emergency_how_we_prepare_for_devastation_in_ferguson/

NOT a mandate

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/18/how_republicans_won_57_percent_of_house_seats_with_just_52_percent_of_the_national_vote/
How Republicans won 57 percent of House seats with just 52 percent of the national vote

Hyperbole alert

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/19/a_republican_congress_might_actually_be_the_end_of_the_world_partner/
Why a Republican Congress might actually be the end of the world 

The stupidity of "Grubergate"

http://politicalwire.com/2014/11/19/gop-doubles-down-on-stupidity-gaffe/

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/conservatives-now-losing-it-over-grubergate.html

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/18/gops_real_stupidity_scandal_why_the_right%E2%80%99s_grubergate_dishonesty_is_worse_than_you_think/

When sports news becomes real news

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/19/happy_valley_what_really_went_wrong_at_penn_state/ 

Theocracy makes you dumb

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/18/1345754/-Mississippi-tea-partiers-seek-to-recognize-Christianity-as-the-state-s-principal-religion
Mississippi tea partiers seek to recognize Christianity as the state's 'principal' religion

More: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/praise-lord-and-pass-ammunition 

News flash: TV pundits don't really know what they're talking about

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/political-journalism-bs-112911.html#.VGyK8tY8SUg

CNN's ugly moment

http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/11/18/cnns-don-lemon-to-cosby-rape-accuser-you-know-t/201625

Bonus item: Uber is evil. Use Lyft instead

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/okay-wtf-is-the-matter-with-uber

More: http://on.msnbc.com/1zBpAvO

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/19/the-ten-worst-uber-horror-stories.html

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/acting-like-jerks-not-quite-working-out-for-uber.html

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/18/7243093/uber-privacy-problems

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/18/7240295/uber-privacy

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EXECUTIVE ORDERS

Stop me if you've heard this one before: GOPers are furious with Obama for doing something Republican presidents did all the time

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/unprecedented-except-all-the-other-times
Unprecedented, except for all the other times

More: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/two-republican-presidents-used-executive
Two Republican Presidents Used Executive Orders To Protect Immigrants

I jess cain't quit yew . . . 

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/government-shutdown-wars
Why Republicans Can't Quit The Government Shutdown Game

More: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-return-of-the-gop-shutdown-golem

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-leaders-fear-new-round-shutdown-politics

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_11/back_to_the_shutdown_brink052959.php

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/17/mcconnells_looming_apocalypse_gop_conservatives_plan_budget_showdown/
The Beltway is pretending that the GOP wants to “govern.” A showdown over a budget deal will test that premise 

The Cruzians

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/17/1345507/-Senate-Republicans-soon-to-be-in-disarra

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/17/the-new-cruzians-are-ready-to-make-life-hell-for-mitch-mcconnell.html

More: http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/17/7234163/pew-election-poll
American politics is about to get more right-wing


The rightward shift of the states

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/18/gop-states-hitlist-abortion-unions-hillary.html

Cheats

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/outside-groups-twitter-accounts-bruno-gianelli-election-law
CNN: GOPers Used Secret Twitter Code To Get Around Election Laws

Will they be caught? http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-coordination-internal-polling-twitter-cnn-chris-moody
Why It's So Hard To Bust GOPers For Twitter Election Code Scheme

Why people didn't vote

http://americablog.com/2014/11/why-didnt-people-vote-year.html 

Theocracy watch

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/17/6_reasons_why_religion_does_more_harm_than_good_partner/
6 reasons why religion does more harm than good

Bonus item: Brent or Ethan? Tammy or Abigail? The reddest and bluest names

http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/17/7233961/baby-names-political-views 

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DOUBLE DEALING

Mitch McConnell is FOS

Oct 2013: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcconnell-there-will-not-be-another-government-shutdown/
McConnell: "There will not be another government shutdown"

Aug 2014: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/08/20/mitch-mcconnell-threatens-to-shut-down-the-government-pundits-react
Mitch McConnell Threatens to Shut Down the Government

Later Aug 2014: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/28/politics/mitch-mcconnell-shutdowns/
McConnell: Shutdowns are a 'failed policy'

Nov 2014: http://politicalwire.com/2014/11/16/mcconnell-works-to-avoid-another-shutdown/
McConnell Works to Avoid Another Shutdown 

Will Obama veto a Keystone XL bill?

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/durbin-expects-obama-veto-keystone-xl

More: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/whitehouse-completely-destroys-fox-news
Whitehouse Completely Destroys Fox News Talking Points On Keystone XL Pipeline

More: http://firedoglake.com/2014/11/16/late-night-say-bye-bye-keystone-xl/ 

No, Republicans DON'T really want tax reform. They have adopted a post-policy view of politics -- it is better for them to accomplish nothing than to be seen as associated with collaboration and compromise

http://prospect.org/article/how-badly-do-republicans-want-tax-reform-maybe-not-badly

More: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_11/republicans_have_no_incentive052949.php
Republicans have no incentive to moderate or govern

Impeachment. Are you kidding me?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/16/1344809/-Criminalizing-liberalism

The will make your head explode. Mitt Romney says, "'The President Has Got To Learn That He Lost." Uh . . . Mitt . . .?

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/romney-president-has-got-learn-he-lost

Another potential GOP presidential candidate is tripped up by the rules

http://politicalwire.com/2014/11/16/gop-rule-could-hamper-presidential-bid-by-ryan/

The Metro South

http://prospect.org/article/report-south-urgently-needs-infrastructure-opportunity

More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/16/1344692/-How-the-racists-of-the-South-have-ruled-this-nation-from-the-very-beginning

Bonus item: Memories . . .

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/16/1344081/-The-best-and-worst-campaign-ads-of-the-2014-general-election
The best and worst campaign ads of the 2014 general election

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SUNDAY BRIEFS

Posted from the airport, in transit . . .
 
The next Obamacare open enrollment period has just started. How will it go?
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/15/7220135/obamacare-open-enrollment-healthcaregov

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/11/two-important-notes-anyone-renewing-obamacare-coverage

Hey! http://politicalwire.com/2014/11/15/obamacare-gets-high-marks-after-first-year/
Obamacare Gets High Marks After First Year  

More on the Democrats' loss of the white working class

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_11/another_look_at_the_white_work052912.php

More: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_11/misery_index_part_i052941.php

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_11/misery_index_part_ii052942.php

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/upshot/how-the-gop-can-court-the-working-class.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

What could go wrong?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-weighs-expanded-cia-training-arming-of-syrian-allies-struggling-against-assad/2014/11/14/227abfe4-6c17-11e4-9fb4-a622dae742a2_story.html
U.S. weighs expanded CIA training, arming of Syrian allies struggling against Assad

Bonus item: OMG -- a chocolate shortage?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/15/the-worlds-biggest-chocolate-maker-says-were-running-out-of-chocolate/

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NOT ACTING LIKE A LAME DUCK

Good

http://americablog.com/2014/11/lame-duck-obama.html

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/president-bounces-the-ropes

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/14/six-reasons-why-the-whole-obamas-back-meme-is-ridiculous/

What can Obama do if the Supreme Court strikes down healthcare subsidies?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/14/1343787/-How-the-White-House-could-circumvent-the-U-S-Supreme-Court-on-Obamacare-nbsp-subsidies

Obama picks a fight over immigration

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/14/obamas_big_immigration_strike_what_you_need_to_know_about_the_road_ahead/
 
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/11/obama_immigration_liberals_and_conservatives_are_overplaying_the_significance.html

How can any informed reporter write this? When have the Republicans paid ANY price for their relentless obstructionism?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/us/republicans-immigration-congress-obama.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
President Obama’s insistence on unilateral action to overhaul immigration has given Republicans a compelling political target, but one that could leave the party seeming obstructionist.

Another shutdown? http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/heritage-amnesty-government-shutdown

http://prospect.org/article/political-very-personal

Oh, just wait

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/14/1344851/-McConnell-brings-Republican-hypocrisy-to-a-new-low-and-that-s-saying-something
McConnell brings Republican hypocrisy to a new low

I've said it here before: Charles Krauthammer is the most intellectually dishonest pundit out there today

http://digbysblog.blogspot.be/2014/11/krauthammer-takes-bait.html

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/14/fox_revs_up_impeachment_lunacy_with_krauthammer_at_the_wheel/

More: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/republicans-want-impeachment-obama-executive-action-immigration

A broken system

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/14/what-if-the-united-states-had-no-attorney-general.html
Senate Democrats face a choice: pushing through AG nominee Loretta Lynch, or filling 231 executive-branch vacancies. They won’t get both.

Rand Paul wants to run for Senate and President at the same time. Turns out that's illegal - so what will he do?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/rand-paul-run-president-and-re-election

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/rand-paul-tries-skirt-kentucky-election

How to fix the FISA court

https://www.emptywheel.net/2014/11/14/how-to-fix-the-fisa-court-or-not/

Damn facts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/14/more-guns-more-crime-new-research-debunks-a-central-thesis-of-the-gun-rights-movement/
More guns, more crime: New research debunks a central thesis of the gun rights movement

The Keystone XL pipeline debate: get up to speed

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/14/7216751/keystone-pipeline-facts-controversy

Fox World's dirty old men

http://prospect.org/article/fox-news-where-conservative-senior-citizens-get-look-half-naked-girls

Bonus item: Wow - don't quite know how to describe this one

http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/11/12/the-immortal-turns-santa-claus-into-the-warrior-protector-of-a-young-jesus-christ/

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IMMIGRATION REFORM

Looks like Obama's plan is coming soon 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/us/obama-immigration.html

Not good

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7216423/isis-al-qaeda-alliance
ISIS and al-Qaeda may have just joined forces in Syria 

A deal with Iran? 

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/11/iran_s_domestic_obstacles_to_nuclear_deal_president_hassan_rouhani_and_foreign.html

Elizabeth Warren takes a big step up

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/13/elizabeth-warren-senate_n_6149454.html

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/elizabeth-warren-senate-democratic-leadership

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7211547/elizabeth-warren-senate-leadership

More: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/11/elizabeth-warren-gets-promotion-or-does-she
Am I the only person who thinks this is probably not a great move for Warren? 

No, Republicans DON'T "have to show they can govern" 

http://pressthink.org/2014/11/republicans-must-show-they-can-govern-no-they-dont-please-stop-saying-that/

The GOPers see scandals everywhere they look

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/13/1344734/-Republicans-ginning-up-Benghazi-like-outrage-over-Gruber-nbsp-gaffe
Republicans ginning up Benghazi-like outrage over Gruber gaffeRepublicans ginning up Benghazi-like outrage over Gruber gaffe

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/12/1344445/-GOP-threatens-to-block-Loretta-Lynch-over-executive-power-they-demanded-for-lame-duck-Bush
GOP threatens to block Loretta Lynch over executive power they demanded for lame-duck Bush

http://politicalwire.com/2014/11/13/mcconnell-says-hes-disturbed-by-obamas-actions/
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) declared that he was “very disturbed” by President Obama’s recent attempts to exercise his executive powers . . .

More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/13/1344675/-The-fight-to-be-House-Republicans-top-scandalmonger-heats-up

Sigh

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/11/can-we-talk-heres-why-white-working-class-hates-democrats
Here's Why the White Working Class Hates Democrats
 
What's going to happen with net neutrality?

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7204657/net-neutrality-obama-wheeler

Bonus item: Philae

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7211229/philae-photos-comet-rosetta
Photos from the Philae landing: What a comet's surface looks like up close

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/11/7185827/philae-rosetta-comet

Oh-oh: http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7214941/philae-comet-rosetta
Philae is stuck in a shadowy crater. Its battery is dying. What happens next?

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SO, WHAT ELSE IS NEW?

In case you had any doubts about where things are heading

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/12/republicans-dont-want-their-leaders-working-with-president-obama-at-all/
Republicans don’t want their leaders working with President Obama. At all.

Yes, they're already talking about another govt shutdown

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/12/1344351/-Senate-Republicans-signaling-shutdown-threat-over-immigration
 

"McConnell sharply criticizes Obama’s climate change deal with China"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/12/mcconnell-sharply-criticizes-obamas-climate-change-deal-with-china/
Well, that didn't take long. . . 

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/12/inhofe-denounces-us-china-climate-deal-calls-it-hollow-and-a-charade/

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/china-tries-to-save-earth-republicans-furious.html
 
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/12/1344397/-Republican-climate-deniers-rail-against-U-S-China-climate-accord
 
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-china-climate-change-deal

The latest Republican case of the vapors

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gops-anti-obamacare-push-gains-new-momentum-in-wake-of-gruber-video/2014/11/12/e0d6b4d2-6aa7-11e4-9fb4-a622dae742a2_story.html?wprss=rss_politics
GOP’s anti-Obamacare push gains new momentum in wake of Gruber video

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/12/hearings-floated-as-hill-republicans-seize-on-gruber-obamacare-comments/
 
More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/12/why-jonathan-gruber-wont-change-the-obamacare-debate/

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/11/jonathan-gruber-says-nothing-new-gets-hammered-it
 
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/white-house-gruber-comments-simple-not-true

Step aside Michele and Sarah: there's a new Queen of Crazytown

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/joni-ernst-wingnut-list 

Ted Cruz: the coloring-book

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/its-bird-its-plane-no-its-super-ted-cruz

A look back: the FBI's war against MLK

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/read-fbi-letter-threatening-mlk

Bonus item: I know the GOP is feeling pretty good about itself, but they'd better not pick a fight with Bruce

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bruce-springsteen-conservatives-veterans-fortunate-son 

More: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/conservatives-confused-fortunate-son

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EMPTY

How Republicans win

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/11/we-probably-just-saw-one-of-the-lowest-turnout-elections-in-american-history/
We probably just saw one of the lowest-turnout elections in American history

Another sign: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/11/3000-votes-out-of-almost-780000-could-decide-five-house-races/
3,000 votes (out of almost 780,000) could decide five House races

http://politicalwire.com/2014/11/11/voting-restrictions-are-already-deciding-elections/
Voting Restrictions Are Already Deciding Elections 

Also this

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/11/the-incoming-senate-will-be-the-least-experienced-since-1989/
The incoming Senate will be the least experienced since 1989 

The "tells"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/11/how-you-can-tell-if-someone-is-running-for-president-in-2016-in-9-easy-questions/
How you can tell if someone is running for president in 2016, in 9 easy questions

More: http://politicalwire.com/2014/11/11/money-is-a-pretty-good-predictor-of-who-will-win/
Money is a Pretty Good Predictor of Who Will Win  

Counterintuitive?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/11/11/why-a-bernie-sanders-presidential-candidacy-is-good-for-democrats-and-for-hillary-clinton/
Why a Bernie Sanders presidential candidacy is good for Democrats — and for Hillary Clinton

Or Elizabeth Warren: http://my.firedoglake.com/blog/2014/11/11/elizabeth-warren-better-but-not-there-yet/ 

Rand Paul is really, really worried about Hillary Clinton's health

Really: http://www.salon.com/2014/11/11/rand_paul_is_worried_that_hillary_clinton_is_too_old_to_run_for_president/ 

The fine hermeneutics of Ethics Committee reports

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/11/why-you-should-always-read-ethics-committee-reports-always/

The coming war over Loretta Lynch

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/11/1344034/-Republicans-plan-to-attack-Lynch-on-Obama-s-immigration-plans

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/223598-dems-unlikely-to-ram-through-obamas-attorney-general-pick

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/11/1344082/-Democrats-plan-to-move-Lynch-nomination-for-attorney-general-after-power-change

Breitbart.com calls itself a "news network" -- but watch how they handle a blatantly false headline and news item

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/breitbart-issues-best-correction-since-forever

More: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/maddow-hammers-conservative-media-they

Data

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/11/7187411/prison-crime-rate
One chart that proves mass incarceration doesn’t reduce crime

Obama makes a big deal in China

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/president-obama-strikes-historic-climate

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/11/7200909/US-china-climate-deal-cutting-emissions

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/11/7199827/vox-sentences-us-china-trade-deal-comet-ferguson

Fox World hates it: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/colbert-destroys-fox-pundits-feigned 

How net neutrality became a partisan issue

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-indifference-towards-net-neutrality-turns-fierce-hostility

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/10/ted_cruz_attacks_net_neutrality_with_totally_incoherent_obamacare_analogy/

More: http://www.vox.com/2014/11/10/7187281/9-questions-about-network-neutrality-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask
9 questions about network neutrality you were too embarrassed to ask
 
Fox World: You couldn't make it up

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/11/megyn_kellys_huckabee_flub_was_fox_news_at_its_best_why_were_obsessed_with_cable_news_bloopers/ 

Bonus item: Changing what it means to be human

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/11/7175455/cyborg-ethics-moreno


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GREEK TRAGEDY

One of my lines is that your greatest strengths are often your greatest weaknesses. Here's Obama's

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/10/how-barack-obamas-utter-confidence-made-him-and-broke-him/

More: http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2014/11/10/president-obama-failed/

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/06/24/saving_obama_from_himself_106084.html

OK, Hillary in 2016. Maybe. But where is the next generation of Democratic leaders?

http://politicalwire.com/2014/11/11/wheres-the-next-generation-of-democrats/

Here's a long-term trend: the decline of small towns

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/wealth-gap-leaving-struggling-towns

More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/21/1134632/-The-slow-agonizing-death-of-the-small-US-town

http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2013/06/10/murphysboro__the_death_of_small_town_america_106556.html

http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/11988.html

The rise in wealth inequality

http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/10/7186151/wealth-inequality-saez-zucman-chart-gif

A big chunk of America is dominated by the GOP - perhaps for a long time to come

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/11/nearly-half-of-americans-now-live-in-states-under-total-gop-control/

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MIDTERM_ELECTIONS_SOUTHERN_TAKEOVER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-11-08-18-23-45

AFTER the election in which this was people's #1 fear

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/10/7190141/it-looks-like-america-is-now-ebola-free
It looks like America is now Ebola-free

Grab the popcorn!

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/war-coming-teabaggers-already-planning
War Is Coming: Teabaggers Already Planning Assault On GOP For Being 'Too Timid' With Obama

More: http://www.vox.com/2014/11/10/7174503/ted-cruz-mitch-mcconnell-immigration-fight

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/11/mitchs_first_big_headache_how_to_convince_conservatives_he_cant_repeal_obamacare/

The GOP way

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/its-obamacare
Republicans don't have arguments; they have slogans. They don't have evidence of a failing law; they have polls telling them "Obamacare" is a damaged "brand."  . . .

More: http://www.vox.com/2014/11/10/7184725/what-democrats-can-learn-from-republicans
What Democrats can learn from Republicans

Death panels

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/yes-republican-obamacare-plan-will-kill-people.html

Koch addiction

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/democrats-suddenly-realize-koch-bros

Why Rand Paul won't be the 2016 nominee

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/11/7186235/rand-paul-running-president-2016

Bonus item: Another trend - how states became the #1 gambling shills

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/10/7184987/john-oliver-state-lottery-gambling


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THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA

Here it is

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/sunday-funnies.html

More: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/heres-how-gop-majority-will-make-us-all

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/11/republican-agenda-starts-take-shape
- Ban abortions after 20 weeks.     
- Wipe out all of Obama's new and pending EPA regulations.     
- Repeal Obamacare bit by bit.     
- Figure out a way to obstruct Loretta Lynch's nomination as Attorney General.

Valerie Jarrett: the most powerful Obama aide you know nothing about

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120170/valerie-jarrett-obama-whisperer

More: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/January-2014/The-Mysteries-and-Realities-of-Valerie-Jarrett-Mystery-Woman-of-the-White-House/

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_11/a_politico_hit_job_on_valerie052852.php
A Politico Hit Job on Valerie Jarrett

Koch addiction

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/left-struggled-to-move-voters-with-koch-attacks-and-other-big-money-messages/2014/11/09/185b32ea-669b-11e4-bb14-4cfea1e742d5_story.html?hpid=z2
Left struggled to move voters with Koch attacks and other big-money messages

"Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise With Corporations"

http://my.firedoglake.com/blog/2014/11/09/too-big-to-jail-how-prosecutors-compromise-with-corporations-book-salon-preview/

http://fdlbooksalon.com/2014/11/09/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-brandon-l-garrett/
 
More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/09/1342884/-Executives-who-trashed-evidence-must-go-to-jail-Otherwise-more-will-die-from-corporate-cover-ups
This is really going to piss you off. . . .

Fox World gives religious advice

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/fox-news-host-barney-fife-high-school-refs

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/atheists-not-qualified-counsel-seamen

How junk food is engineered to make us addicted to it

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/09/how_fast_food_targets_you_the_secret_science_and_sauce_behind_mcdonalds_snickers_fritos_and_more/

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

If it's Sunday, it's John McCain

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/sen-john-mccain-about-get-even-more-air

Bonus item: She said it 

https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/photos/a.10150723283643588.424640.24718773587/10152859331228588/?type=1
[Sarah Palin] In the 2008 campaign Sen. McCain and I warned, on behalf of every reasonable person, that your willingness to negotiate with terrorists would get Americans killed; that pulling an anti-Reagan move by taking our Big Stick of strength and putting it in the hands of any foe could be insurmountably devastating for our allies. Iran is one of Israel's staunchest enemies. Mr. President, who is advising you to come against Israel?

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