READING FOR THE MLK WEEKEND (1-15-16)

Martin Luther King Day: How much do you know about MLK? Take our quiz (CS Monitor).

Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Test your knowledge (Seattle Times).

'Navigation error' led U.S. sailors into Iranian waters - Carter (RT).

Denial, paranoia and bigotry: Obama warns against Republican ugliness and they immediately prove him right (Salon).


THIS IS JUST WRONG
Day care teacher faces decades-long prison sentence after 'baby fight club' conviction (RT).

The shaming of Izzy Laxamana (Slate).

Atlanta police stop and put gun to head of rapper after he withdraws $200,000 from his bank (Raw Story).

Following Flint tragedy GOP led Congress votes to block clean water bill (U.S. Uncut).

Ronald Reagan stuck it to millenials: A college debt history lesson no one tells (Salon).

Seriously? North Carolina legalizes prostitution for state politicians (The Daily Beast).


ECONOMIC TRENDS, AND COUNTER-TRENDS
The Obama Boom (NY Times).

Paul Krugman: Are we heading to a global economic catastrophe (Alternet).

The country that tricked the world ... China (Washington Post).

Sell everything ahead of stock market crash, say RBS economists (The Guardian).

More than half of Americans reportedly have less than $1,000 to their name (Esquire).


NEW WAVE ECONOMICS
Billionaire blasts companies that jump overseas to duck taxes: 'I'm selling your stock' (Think Progress).

Pay it Forward: The New Zealand town where your time is a currency (The Guardian).

Republicans silent as Seattle's economy booming with higher minimum wage (Occupy Democrats).


YEAH, BERNIE'S IDEAS WILL WORK
170 top economists back Bernie Sanders' plan to rein in Wall Street (U.S. Uncut).

Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care plan will save American taxpayers $1200 a year (Nation of Change).


TED CRUZ ... NEEDS ANCHOR PARENTS TO ADOPT HIM
Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president (Washington Post).

Karma: Ted Cruz releases Mother's birth certificate after she's found on Canadian voter list (Occupy Democrats).

Ted 'Duck Hunter' Cruz goes full camo in BIZARRE new ad pandering to Idiot America (Addicting Info).

OREGON (BUNDY) NUTJOBS
Expert: Majority of Oregon militia thugs likely broke, unemployed, or on disability (Liberal America).

Thank you, Oregon militiamen: The longer you stay, the more ridiculous you and the conservative movement look (Salon).

BUSTED: Oregon militia thugs caught falsely posing as Marine veterans (Liberal America).

Outrage in Oregon: Taking over a federal building at the point of a rifle gives protest a bad name (Common Outrage).

Bundy militia terrorists remove fence at Oregon wildlife refuge as protest escalates (The Guardian).


OREGON FUMES
The GOP's sympathy for sedition (Dana Milbank).

How about some Oregon militia homoerotic fan fiction (JoeMyGod).

7 kind of government subsidies those angry ranchers get that you don't (Grist).

An excellent read ... Former forest supervisor explains "Why I resigned over a public land dispute" (Time).

SERIOUSLY, THESE PEOPLE ARE NUTS
Texas governor calls for huge, insane changes to U.S. Constitution (Slate).

Felon enraged over Obama's gun reforms shoots up apartment building (Occupy Democrats).

Anti-Obama march organizer fatally shoots right-wing militant buddy in drunken dispute over gun (Raw Story).


MISCELLANEOUS
President Obama drops a fact bomb and obliterates the NRA at CNN gun town hall (Politics USA).

Why "collateral damage" elicits little empathy among Americans (Common Dreams).

Melvin Russell: I love being a police officer, but we need reform (TED).

Signs of the 'Human Age' ... It's not pretty (NY Times).

- Mark