DAILY KOS RECOMMENDED 17-23MAI14

 

• • • • • • The New York Times busted
          
          
          • Something big is brewing in California
          
          
          • Turns out that 'Our Lady of Duck Dynasty' is a corporate welfare queen
          
          
          • Are you ready to rumble? 30 million patriots are descending on DC today to fire the president
          
          
          • Police commissioner in small New Hampshire town unapologetically calls Obama the 'N' word
          
          
          • Cartoon: Dr. Rove's Brain Clinic
          
          
          • Paul Krugman is in fine form today
          
          
          • Scott Brown gets burned after telling GOP to block Jeanne Shaheen's energy bill
          
          
          • 'Happy Mother's Day' threat from Florida gun instructor
          
          
          • Teaching evolution: How I stopped worrying and learned to love the Jesus
          
          
          • Idaho Republican gubernatorial debate was a thing of beauty
          
          
          • Stephen Colbert looks at Rove's smear against Hillary
           
        • MUST-SEE: First Lady Michelle Obama drops the mic in Topeka
        
        
        • No heathens served: 'Because we are better than you.'
        
        
        • Cartoon: Guns everywhere
        
        
        • Women are morons. That's what they think.
        
        
        • MUST-SEE: Bill Maher DARES Republicans to impeach Obama over Benghazi
        
        
        • Wolfeboro responds to commissioner's racist remarks
        
        
        • Marijuana legalization hurting Mexican drug cartels
        
        
        • GOP House candidate: Democrats commit '99 Percent' of mass shootings
        
        
        • Krugman on Geithner: He was 'all for bailing out banks but against bailing out families'
        
        
        • Kepler spacecraft telescope revived and 'balancing' on solar wind after amazingly creative fix
        
        
        • How Karl Rove, Rich Lowry and Politico are damaging America
        
        
        • Arkansas hospitals see fewer ER visits, uninsured patients
         
      • Daily Kos Recommended
      • PHOTOS: 30 million patriots on the National Mall
      • 10 to 30 million tea partiers head to DC to overtake entire government
      • Chamber runs Obamacare 'horror' story for McConnell, and it's another fail
      • Cartoon: Learn to Speak Benghazi
      • North Carolina Coastal Commission votes to ignore long-term sea level rise
      • Obamacare puts free clinic out of business, and everybody is happy
      • Elizabeth Warren's big opportunity in 2016
      • One southern Democrat’s very smart Medicare strategy for winning re-election
      • OathKeepers: We distributed ammo to "mentally imbalanced" Bundy thugs
      • Workers in Walmart warehouse get $21 million wage theft settlement
      • Walker has promised U.S. Supreme Court appointment to judge that gutted WI campaign finance faws
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      • Guess what country got 74% of its power from renewable sources
      
      
      • In surprising twist, Mitch McConnell calls for his own retirement
      
      
      • NRA comes out against #BringBackOurGirls campaign
      
      
      • 'American Spring' organizers baffled as to where their 10-30 million 'patriots' went
      
      
      • Stephen Colbert on Wall Street's hatred of Elizabeth Warren
      
      
      • What part of the right to light a forest on fire do you not understand?! GunFAIL LXIX
      
      
      • Perhaps Marco Rubio just doesn't want to be nicknamed Senator Bongwater
      
      
      • Exposing the Koch brothers and the price we all pay
      
      
      • Yet another GOP candidate for Congress: same-sex marriage is like losing a parent in a car accident
      
      
      • Texas man could get 5 years to life in prison for pot brownies
      
      
      • Republican science denial: A clear and present danger to U.S. national security
      
      
      • NC Republicans shill for industry in bill that would jail anyone who discloses fracking chemicals
       
    • America's Dumbest Congressman blasts America for being too nice to children
    
    
    • Pat Sajak: 'Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading'
    
    
    • Ah, the cruel irony of voter ID laws: Guess what Republican gubernatorial candidate was turned away from the polls
    
    
    • Scott Walker caught in another big, fat lie
    
    
    • Tony Perkins' reaction to Pennsylvania marriage equality ruling is comedy gold
    
    
    • Indiana man convicted of drugging and raping his wife for 3 years gets no prison sentence
    
    
    • Chipotle asks customers to not wave guns around their stores, causing gun nuts to threaten boycott
    
    
    • Dinesh D'Souza, guilty on campaign finance charges, also lied in print about Obama
    
    
    • Jon Stewart blasts NRA for being against smart guns
    
    
    • Cartoon: Cloud control
    
    
    • SHOCKER! Koch brothers working to scuttle Detroit bankruptcy settlement
    
    
    • Where does Terri Lynn Land stand on incest, personhood and rape?
     
  • Bad news for Scott Walker: Secret document unsealed
  
  
  • Letterman passes fracking torch, Colbert blows it up
  
  
  • Can't vote because you forgot your I.D.? Here's how one Arkansas Republican solved that problem
  
  
  • Former Christie aide says lane closures were political payback
  
  
  • Cartoon: The moguls of climate change
  
  
  • Pope Francis: Causing climate change is a 'sin'
  
  
  • Florida Republican: New tests will 'attract every one of your children' into homosexuality
  
  
  • Cartoon: Pushy promotion
  
  
  • Republicans outraged over treatment of veterans filibustered better health care for vets in February
  
  
  • Why I'm running
  
  
  • National Review Online contributor: Women are 'being taught to believe they were raped'
   
• Newest Republican effort to appeal to women voters reaches killer clown levels of terrifying


• Jon Stewart on GOP's bad memory on screwing over veterans


• Hobby Lobby president met privately with Oklahoma school board


• MS-Sen: MS Tea Party vice chairman arrested in connection with taking pictures of senator's wife


• Cartoon: Mystery of the Age


• Koch bros smacked down in Michigan but Republicans can't even do the right thing the right way


• James O'Keefe is back with a new scam, but his targets have stolen his thunder


• AMAZING VIDEO: President Obama goes for a stroll at the National Mall


• Allen West questions the 'loyalties' of Rep. Tammy Duckworth


• Arctic sea ice melt will release about 100,000,000,000,000 particles of plastic