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We are seeing the ruthless side of American politics rear its ugly head. Shocking and demoralizing to be sure. But in fairness certainly not surprising.
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Matt Taibbi | Democrats Will Learn All the Wrong Lessons From Brush With Bernie
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "Years ago, over many beers in a D.C. bar, a congressional aide colorfully described the House of Representatives, where he worked. It's '435 heads up 435 asses,' he said. I thought of that person yesterday, while reading the analyses of Hillary Clinton's victories Tuesday night."
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Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "Years ago, over many beers in a D.C. bar, a congressional aide colorfully described the House of Representatives, where he worked. It's '435 heads up 435 asses,' he said. I thought of that person yesterday, while reading the analyses of Hillary Clinton's victories Tuesday night."
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The DEA Wants Inside Your Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs
Christopher Moraff, The Daily Beast
Moraff writes: "Marlon Jones was arrested for taking legal painkillers, prescribed to him by a doctor, after a double knee replacement. Jones, an assistant fire chief of Utah's Unified Fire Authority, was snared in a dragnet pulled through the state's program to monitor prescription drugs after someone stole morphine from an ambulance in 2012. To find the missing morphine, cops used their unrestricted access to the state's Prescription Drug Monitor Program database to look at the private medical records of nearly 500 emergency services personnel - without a warrant."
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Christopher Moraff, The Daily Beast
Moraff writes: "Marlon Jones was arrested for taking legal painkillers, prescribed to him by a doctor, after a double knee replacement. Jones, an assistant fire chief of Utah's Unified Fire Authority, was snared in a dragnet pulled through the state's program to monitor prescription drugs after someone stole morphine from an ambulance in 2012. To find the missing morphine, cops used their unrestricted access to the state's Prescription Drug Monitor Program database to look at the private medical records of nearly 500 emergency services personnel - without a warrant."
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GOP Senator Asks Christians to Pray for Obama's Speedy Death
Eric Levitz, New York Magazine
Levitz writes: "Freshman Georgia senator David Perdue opened his remarks to the Faith and Freedom Coalition Friday morning with an ice-breaking joke - about imploring God to end the president's life."
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Eric Levitz, New York Magazine
Levitz writes: "Freshman Georgia senator David Perdue opened his remarks to the Faith and Freedom Coalition Friday morning with an ice-breaking joke - about imploring God to end the president's life."
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California Moves Ahead With Plan for $270 Million in New Jails
teleSUR
Excerpt: "California elected officials on the Budget Conference Committee approved US$270 million for new jail construction on Thursday, despite community opposition, according to Californians United for a Responsible Budget."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "California elected officials on the Budget Conference Committee approved US$270 million for new jail construction on Thursday, despite community opposition, according to Californians United for a Responsible Budget."
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UN Chief Admits He Removed Saudi Arabia From Child-Killer List Due to Extortion
Alex Emmons and Zaid Jilani, The Intercept
Excerpt: "UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon publicly acknowledged Thursday that he removed the Saudi-led coalition currently bombing Yemen from a blacklist of child killers - 72 hours after it was published - due to a financial threat to defund United Nations programs."
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Alex Emmons and Zaid Jilani, The Intercept
Excerpt: "UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon publicly acknowledged Thursday that he removed the Saudi-led coalition currently bombing Yemen from a blacklist of child killers - 72 hours after it was published - due to a financial threat to defund United Nations programs."
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Venezuela's Struggle to Survive
Lisa Sullivan, Consortium News
Excerpt: "Amid a reassertion of U.S.-backed neoliberal policies in Latin America, Venezuela's socialist government totters at a tipping point, beset by a severe economic crisis, but Lisa Sullivan sees a ground-up struggle of Venezuelans to survive."
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Lisa Sullivan, Consortium News
Excerpt: "Amid a reassertion of U.S.-backed neoliberal policies in Latin America, Venezuela's socialist government totters at a tipping point, beset by a severe economic crisis, but Lisa Sullivan sees a ground-up struggle of Venezuelans to survive."
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The EPA Proposed New Emergency Limits for Radioactive Drinking Water, and They Don't Look Good
Alejandro Davila Fragoso, ThinkProgress
Fragoso writes: "New and higher radioactivity limits for drinking water tainted in the case of a nuclear emergency were put forward by the Environmental Protection Agency this week, a move that environmental organizations are calling 'egregious.'"
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Alejandro Davila Fragoso, ThinkProgress
Fragoso writes: "New and higher radioactivity limits for drinking water tainted in the case of a nuclear emergency were put forward by the Environmental Protection Agency this week, a move that environmental organizations are calling 'egregious.'"
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