Dec 5, 2014
Greg Dworkin joins us in noting the Twitter
jubilation over the latest jobs numbers as well as the continuing
protests across the country growing out of the Brown, Garner & Rice
cases (and so much more), which pose problems for politicians from
Bill de Blasio to
Loretta Lynch. What do you do with the Sandy Hook gunman's
now-empty house? Breaking: Republicans are full
of it on anti-poverty programs. A
thing happened at TNR. Conservative paper says we need
police transparency & accountability. Yay! But also, it's about
cigarette taxes. Boo! Gop civil war
never stopped. Chris Christie's doesn't control his top aides &
is therefore
exonerated. Right? Armando gets us all
philosophical about history, political science and the modern state
of the law, by way of The War of the Roses. Rosalyn
MacGregor
updates us on the
insanity of Michigan's
lame duck legislative
carnival. Another MI story, via Eclectablog, on a
scheme to open a FEMA re-education camp taxpayer-funded Tea
Party-themed K-12 school. Plus a story out of Florida lays out how
it's done
by straight-up criminals. Weekend reading:
Pay-to-play with Congress pays off in company tax breaks.