WHO'S YOUR
DADDY? A while back I wrote a fundraising message with the title, "Who's Your
Daddy?" I took a lot of flack for the title because a lot of people did not
understand the question. The line is borrowed from the 1968 song by the Zombies,
Time of the Season. But the question is borrowed, too. In this case the question
means who pays your bills? David and Charles Koch are "news daddies". They pay a
lot of bills to see to it that the message is ah, fair. Our Daddy and Mommy are
you. We know that. The question is one you should also consider asking of any
information source: Who's Your Daddy? Pay attention to the answer and you'll
learn a lot. We are asking for your support, it's vitally important. Thanks to
all in advance. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News
Andy Borowitz
| McCain Rips Obama's Failure to Bomb Stonehenge 
Andy Borowitz, The New
Yorker Borowitz writes: "Senator John
McCain (R-Ariz.) blasted President Obama on Saturday for failing to bomb
Stonehenge while in the United Kingdom for the NATO summit." READ
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New Witnesses
Emerge in Michael Brown Police Shooting Jeremy Kohler and Robert Patrick,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Excerpt: "There
were two outsiders who happened to be working outside at the apartment complex
on Aug. 9 - two men from a company in Jefferson County - who heard a single
gunshot, looked up from their work and witnessed the shooting." READ
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Stop and
Seize: Aggressive Police Take Hundreds of Millions of Dollars From Motorists Not
Charged With Crimes Michael Sallah, Robert O’Harrow Jr.,
and Steven Rich, The Washington Post Excerpt: "After the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001,
the government called on police to become the eyes and ears of homeland security
on America’s highways. Local officers, county deputies and state troopers were
encouraged to act more aggressively in searching for suspicious people, drugs
and other contraband. The departments of Homeland Security and Justice spent
millions on police training." READ
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What Happened
When the U.S. Tried to Save James Foley and Steven Sotloff
Nicholas Schmidle, The New
Yorker Schmidle writes: "In June, two
teams of F.B.I. agents travelled to separate locations in Europe to interview
two men who had been prisoners of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or
ISIS. Both former hostages had been held in northern Syria and were released for
reasons that have not been publicly acknowledged." READ
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Wendy Davis
Tells of Two Abortions Associated Press Excerpt: "Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for
Texas governor who sprung to fame when she held back sweeping abortion
restrictions, reveals in a new memoir that she terminated two pregnancies for
medical reasons." READ
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NFL Still Not
Ready for Openly Gay Player Paul Newberry, Associated
Press Newberry writes: "If history is
any guide, Michael Sam should be getting ready for his first NFL game. Instead,
he's stuck on the practice squad with the Dallas Cowboys." READ
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As Keystone
Awaits Fate, Other Tar Sands Projects Move Forward Peter Moskowitz, Al Jazeera
America Moskowitz writes: "The federal
government has quietly approved major tar sands transportation projects with
unstudied environmental effects -managing to circumvent the executive branch’s
impact analysis that paralyzed development of the Keystone XL pipeline and
bolstered activists’ claims that the project is dangerous and damaging to the
environment." READ
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