- Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Hobby Lobby joins a cult!:
- A teaser from David Dayen’s interview with Keith Ellison:
Ellison: My thoughts about where Detroit is today? I mean the real story of Detroit is, Ford, GM and Chrysler basically used Detroit to make a lot of dough. And when they could take advantage of relatively lower-wage places around the world, they went there. And abandoned the workers here. That’s it. You know, I mean it’s de-industrialization. And it didn’t have to happen.
But it did happen, and so now what do we do? I think we’ve got to reinvest in Detroit, and we’ve got to make sure that pensioners don’t suffer, that people get water. That the basic needs of the people of this community are taken care of. And Detroiters know how to work, man, they built autos for generations here. And they can build anything, they can build solar panels, they can make stuff. But it’s a matter of will, and political organization.
- On C-Span appearance, Rep. Jim Himes tells angry Obama critic to try a little less Fox News.
- Hatemonger Bryan Fischer says Obama using Malaysian plane shoot-down to advance ‘radical homosexual agenda’: In an op-ed, Fischer said President Obama “stood on the graves” of the HIV/AIDS researchers who died in the plane crash by proclaiming that the U.S. will “continue to stand for the basic principle that people have a right to live as they choose.”
“There is no question that the HIV/AIDS crisis is behaviorally induced, and that changing sexual behavior is central to getting this epidemic under control,” [Fischer] added. “If there is any lesson about homosexuality to be taken from this tragedy, it is this. Homosexual behavior kills, and the sooner we alert young men to this the more compassionate we will be and they longer they will live.”
- Gazan civilians flee Israeli attack into the path of more bombs.
- Woman tells Jesus to “take the wheel” and clobbers motorcyclist, who survives:
Usually when someone says “Jesus take the wheel” it’s meant to help them through a rough patch in life.
But police say an Indiana woman took the phrase literally on July 11th, when she took her hands off the steering wheel as she was driving. […]
The accident broke all of [Anthony] Olivery’s ribs on his left side, cut his spleen, bruised his kidney and caused severe injuries to his left arm and leg.
- Did we really need a study proving elephants have the most discerning noses?
- SpaceX inspiring rise in boutique rocket firms:
Firefly Space Systems is of the youngest of these upstart private space companies. Founded in January 2014 by veteran engineer Tom Markusic—who has previously developed spaceflight systems at SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and Blue Origin—Firefly aims to be a kind of boutique rocket company, catering to smaller satellite payloads and missions.
- On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin notes today’s most interesting writing on Halbig & King, plus GA-Sen, and the charter schools sales guide, revealed. Armando weighs in on the substance of the cases & the weaknesses in the “legal theory” driving them.
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