RECOMMENDED READING FROM DAILY KOS 8-14MAR14

• 'Annie' is black and racists go crazy


• In case you were wondering why John McCain is the most unpopular Senator in the country


• Mike Huckabee hearts God and Vladimir Putin


• Paul Ryan's brown bag lunch story wasn't entirely untrue. Just the part that mattered.


• New York Times joins the Port Authority fray


• Radio host Michael Medved: No state has ever banned gay marriage. 'That is a liberal lie.'


• Ted Cruz says we 'no longer have a president,' apparently because Barack Obama is now our dictator


• Brownback's school defunding plan ruled unconstitutional in the state of Kansas


• FBI takes over investigation of CCA's operation of Idaho State Penitentiary nicknamed 'Gladiator School'


• Keystone isn't any normal pipeline


• POLL: Millennial generation is cause for liberal optimism
• • The library is the last, best socialized institution in America today and you're about to lose it
  
  
  • The poor can no longer afford pneumonia treatment in the U.S.
  
  
  • Union thugs? Wait 'til you see the Kochs
  
  
  • Rich congressman makes a funny about working at Walmart
  
  
  • National Republicans say their nominee in Florida special election is an incompetent cradle robber
  
  
  • Conspiracy site Newsmax to launch news channel to compete with Fox News
  
  
  • Suck on this, Koch brothers: New Hampshire Senate passes Medicaid expansion
  
  
  • Genealogy and family history: Lady Zelig, Titanic Survivor
  
  
  • Why are so many conservative politicians brandishing guns?
  
  
  • Conservative ideology sentences citizens to poor health and permanent poverty
  
  
  • On Mars: One photo which says everything
  
  
  • Koch brothers take $88 Million in corporate welfare
  
  
  • The demographic underpinnings behind America's blue shift, illustrated with interactive maps
  
  
  • Women's History: Latinas
  
  
  • 'I support the troops, but they did volunteer ...'
  
  
  • Cartoon: Sunday Talking About Stuff Show
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  • True Detective: Form and Void
  • Koch brothers' fake 'Obamacare victim' Julie Boonstra made to look even more foolish and exploited
  • Elderly woman with dementia jailed for feeding birds
  • Arkansas Judge Mike Maggio outed for racist, sexist, homophobic posts
  • One photo which says everything
  • 'The United States is better positioned for economic growth than any other' says Obama
  • Report: Feds subpoena Christie's Port Authority chairman in conflict of interest investigation
  • McDonald's worker: Manager told me to 'put a bullet in my head'
  • Virgin's Richard Branson: Businesses should stand up to climate change deniers
  • Arizona governor's office worked on 'religious liberty' bill language before veto
  • The cost of sushi may soon spike
  • Fox: JFK didn't golf during Cuban Missile Crisis, so therefore Obama sucks
  • Wanna know how to move the Democratic Party (and our country) to the left?
  • President Obama exposed to disgusting rash on 'Between Two Ferns'
  • Cartoon: Spectacle semiotics
  • • After CPAC flop, now Mitch McConnell won't even say if he owns a gun
    
    
    • Funny Obama interview on 'Between Two Ferns' makes some conservatives want to die
    
    
    • Koch brothers' Obamacare 'victim' will save $1,200 a year but insists that 'can't be true'
    
    
    • More on conservative whiners ...
    
    
    • Cartoon: Stuff I wish I could say
    
    
    • NYT Snowden docs: "Raw take," rampant sharing of domestic, "unminimized" wiretap content
    
    
    • Jon Stewart has three history professors rip apart Fox's Andrew Napolitano's slavery revisionism
    
    
    • Dianne Feinstein's bombshell
    
    
    • My free school lunch horror story
    
    
    • No right for father to be present at birth over mother's objection: NJ court gets it right
    
    
    • Conservative bigots whine about being social pariahs
    
    
    • Girl Scouts face far-right 'cookiecott'
    
    
    • Stephen Colbert's hilarious bit on Kentucky church giving away guns
    
    
    • Chris Christie gave pieces of 9/11 wreckage to his cronies as gifts
    
    
    • John McCain doesn't believe he has the lowest approval rating in the country: 'They like me'
    • • Republican Senate candidate says Planned Parenthood is planning to kill your three-month-old babies
      
      
      • Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announces she will not run for re-election
      
      
      • Illinois Republican Bruce Rauner: I'm the '.01 percent,' and I'm awesome
      
      
      • Welcome to Hooters! Is that a gun in your pants, or ... GunFAIL LX
      
      
      • Obama planning overtime pay expansion for millions of workers
      
      
      • Cartoon: Obama calls Putin
      
      
      • Cartoon: Civil liberties brainbuster
      
      
      • Yes! Oregon becomes fourth state to block food stamp cuts and restore all funding
      
      
      • American Family Radio guest host calls for left-wing academics to be ‘taken out and shot’
      
      
      • Ryan: No, we really don't have an Obamacare replacement plan
      
      
      • Reports: White House won't release CIA docs to Senate Intelligence Committee, calls for Brennan’s ouster increase
      
      
      • Rubbing shoulders with the affluent
      
      
      • Paul Ryan 'poverty trap' theories quote white nationalist
      
      
      • Cartoon: Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time-Traveler From 1909
      
      
      • Christie unilaterally shuts down all Tesla car stores in NJ
      
      
      • Rick Perry booed on Jimmy Kimmel show at SXSW
      
      
      • Paul Ryan says men in 'inner cities' aren't 'even thinking about working'
      
      
      • Conservative hero Ben Carson says U.S. is 'very much like Nazi Germany'
      
      
      • TYT busts Fox, Fox slams Obama, Obama jabs Zach, ACA wins the match
      
      
      • McConnell campaign releases web video of their candidate doing nothing but looking creepy
      • • Stephen Colbert mocks Fox News meltdown over Obama's Zach Galifianakis video
        
        
        • Republican candidates reveal the real reason you're pro-choice
        
        
        • Ryan backtracks, claims obviously racial comments had 'nothing to do with race'
        
        
        • Montana becomes fifth state to block food stamp cuts
        
        
        • Telecoms take HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS for national broadband, but don't want to deliver
        
        
        • Mike Huckabee says abortion will lead to euthanizing old folks to keep the bills down
        
        
        • $33 billion Tyson Foods removes ads from Rush Limbaugh
        
        
        • Koch's 'victim' remains short on facts, long on victimization
        
        
        • Guess which students get suspended the most in our post-racial society
        
        
        • Michigan's new rape insurance law
        
        
        • Senate reaches unemployment aid deal
        
        
        • MUST-SEE: Jon Stewart HAMMERS Fox News for attacking food stamp recipients
        
        
        • House Dems shame Issa en masse with their iPads
        
        
        • MUST SEE: Krystal Ball brutally eviscerates the GOP and trashes corporate Dems in one amazing segment