Friday, March 4, 2016

WEEKEND READING (March 4, 2016)


This is the real reason Apple is fighting the FBI (Time).

Stephen Colbert isn't laughing at Trump anymore: "This is the easiest question to answer in American politics" (Salon).

How Mexican immigrants ended 'separate but equal' in California (LA Times).

GOP-McConnell to help Clinton beat Trump if Trump is the GOP nominee (NY Times)?


CONSERVATIVE VALUES IN ACTION
Idaho Republican: Rape and incest won't lead to pregnancy (Blue Nation Review).

Family values hypocrite, Bill O'Reilly, loses custody battle after choking wife (New York Daily News).

Ted Cruz blocked a bipartisan bill that would give Flint millions to rebuild water supply (NCRM).

Oklahoma, ranked 48th in education, votes to ban AP History classes (Blue Nation Review).


SCALIA FUMES
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas didn't ask a question in over a decade (NBC News).

Scalia's death prompts Dow to settle suits for $835 million (Bloomberg).

NY Times Editorial: McConnell has 'lost touch with reality and the Constitution' (TPM).


ELIZABETH WARREN TELLING IT LIKE IT IS ...
Elizabeth Warren highlights key weakness in Clinton's Wall Street donation defense (Huffington Post).

Rigged Justice: 2016 ... How Weak Enforcement Lets Corporate Offenders Off Easy (Office of Senator Elizabeth Warren).


TRUMP'S AMERICA
Trump's America arrives - Three Muslims shot execution-style in Indiana (U.S. Uncut).

Three people just got stabbed at a KKK rally in California (U.S. Uncut).

Why the Trump University debacle is exactly what his fan base finally needs to finally understand he's a predator (Raw Story).


SERIOUSLY, WHO MAKES THESE DECISIONS?
Flame throwers, given up by military, being sold to the public (CNN Money).

L.A. is seizing tiny homes from the homeless (LA Times).

Arkansas high school held anti-gang assembly, required only black students to attend (Daily Kos).

U.S. Marshals arrested this man over a three-decades-old student loan (Washington Post).


THINGS THAT SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING
'Absurdly Overwhelming': Hedge funds are betting against the U.S. economy  (Daily Caller).

It begins: Supreme Court rejects racially gerrymandered N.C. districts (Addicting Info).

Food workers without paid sick leave are making customers sick (Salon)

Deported U.S. Army veteran hopes to return to Central Valley (Fox 40).


MISCELLANEOUS
More than half a million registered Texans don't have the right ID to vote on Super Tuesday (Washington Post).

The right to vote? Don't count on it (Brennan Center for Justice).

"He was your average Joe": The police and the media coddle another white killer (Salon)

Hillary Clinton spent day fundraising from bankers capitalizing on the housing crisis (Daily Kos).

- Mark

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