DAILY KOS RECOMMENDED 31AUG-5SEP12

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• White man jaywalks with a gun… guess what happens?


• Russell Brand hilariously destroys Fox News in ongoing feud (VIDEO)


• The very rich are angry at the extremely rich


• It was just a matter of time: Militia member interferes with actual border patrol


• Mitch McConnell campaign manager resigns as bribery scandal grows


• Nutpick-a-palooze: Michael Brown's racist funeral


• Comparing how the New York Times described Mike Brown & Ted Bundy


• Iceland volcano update: New eruption with 60 meter lava fountains: Photos, maps and videos


• Kochs to Republicans: All your voters belong to us


• Greg Abbott chickens out of debating Wendy Davis, lies about it


• Fastest Internet in the U.S.? It's Chattanooga, TN, thanks to local and fed dollars (Ps. Big cable very angry)


• Sam Brownback names Koch employee to Kansas Supreme Court


• Pennsylvania makes public 243 cases of fracking contaminated water


• The best and worst campaign ads of 2014 (so far)
• Man fires 9mm at couple who interrupted public fellatio because Second Amendment remedy!


• Why 2014 is not 2010, in one very clear chart


• Cartoon: Reality collapse


• Quick signature needed: Overrule Citizens United


• National Review lists the 20 movies that 'effectively destroyed art'


• How bad was Michael Brown's school?


• Media in a tizzy over XXX celebrity picture leak, fail to correlate to larger NSA/privacy debate


• Adding up the billions wasted by the House Republicans


• Assault rifle sales sluggish because cruel dictator Obama still hasn't banned them


• Cartoon: God-Man: Enter the Purse Thief!


• Bárðarbunga pictures, charts, and video: And so begins the gas plume


• Genetic maps reveal Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone is linked to one funeral and virus is mutating


• Scottish Independence can actually happen.


• 'Hands up!'
• Does a Supreme Court justice just say, 'oops?'


• Another man dies during routine traffic stop; Cops withhold all information


• Journalist arrested at public event for Georgia Republicans


• Craig: Sign this to stop impeachment


• Cartoon: To pee or not to pee


• Vietnam vet to Mitch McConnell: 'You failed to do' your duty


• New pictures: Iceland volcano lava plumes


• Cartoon: Enhanced sharia techniques


• The Daily Show: Masters of Sexism


• Report: O'Malley is telling fundraisers he will challenge Hillary


• A tweet and a stunning piece of art


• In stunning move, Alaska Democrats and independents form fusion ticket to beat Republican governor


• The Republicans: Freeloading off the political system for twenty years
• The Daily Show–Star Hack: The Nude Generation


• Gay teen kicked out of parents' home directs funds raised online to finance LGBT homeless shelter


• College student is carrying her mattress with her everywhere until her rapist is brought to justice


• Evil billionaires have feelings, too


• Scalia cited now-exonerated man as reason to support the death penalty


• Judge blasts 'expert witnesses' called to defend Texas anti-abortion law


• Fact: There are mystery cell phone towers intercepting your information


• Cartoon: The NFL's personnel playbook


• Cartoon: A special message for African Americans


• Stephen Colbert takes aim at right-wingers calling for new war in the Middle East


• Bárðarbunga: Photos of a volcano eruption zone closed to researchers


• Holy smokes! Democrat drops out in Kansas Senate race—but increases chances of a Republican loss


• A brutally powerful Washington Post exposé: 'How St. Louis County, Missouri profits from poverty'


• Daily Kos Elections poll explorer update: Democrats now favored to retain Senate


• Game change: Kansas! Sam Wang model gives Dems 90% chance of holding Senate


• Breaking news: Justice Department to investigate Ferguson Police Department


• States refusing Medicaid expansion are paying out billions to insure people in other states


• No, Business Insider, Russia is not going to invade Scotland.
• Pat Robertson advises 80 year old tither to get her butt to work
• Federal judge restores early voting in Ohio
• Why are fast food workers being arrested? 'This is a fight for all of us, for all Americans'
• Rep. Frank Wolf to introduce bill authorizing use of military force against anyone, forever
• Judge sets back Republican Jon Husted by barring cuts in early voting in Ohio
• Senate to vote on repealing Citizens United Monday: Something you can do that will take 5 minutes
• AT&T: If you build your own broadband then we don't get any of your tax money
• Alison Lundergan Grimes should make the Kentucky Senate race a referendum on Obamacare and Kynect
• Kansas secretary of state (yeah, the birther guy) says Democrat can't withdraw from Senate race
• CNN's new poll finds Mitch McConnell leading, but they're not asking the right questions
• Campaign manager says Virginia is 'home' to endangered Republican KANSAS Sen. Pat Roberts
• Cartoon: The Golden Pipeline
• Stephen Colbert's Midterm Round Up: 'Hello, ladies'
• Breaking news: August job creation way below expectations at 142,000
• Amazing new Bárðarbunga photos: Ash Nazg Durbatulûk
• Armed border militia confronts 'smugglers' that turn out to be camping biologists
• VIDEO: 'Disrespectful' man kicked out of town meeting, refused to stand for 'one nation under God'