This murder spree is from back in April, but it’s always worth noting that plenty of terrorist killings in this country are not by Muslims. Digby points out that our Muslism terrorists are homegrown, not sent over the border by ISIS.
•For years, I’ve read that JFK narrowly won the 1960 election through fraud, but Nixon decided for the good of the country not to challenge him. I’ve also read articles saying otherwise, but this is the most detailed explanation I’ve come across. In brief, there wasn’t enough fraud to change the results to Nixon and the Republicans fought aggressively to challenge the results.
•It used to be that most Americans started the day with cereal. Not any more.
•Bacteria can identify phony Swiss cheese.
•A Georgia Republican is horrified that early voting in black neighborhoods will encourage people to vote who aren’t educated enough.
•A Muslim human rights attorney says she was arrested for doing nothing but standing on the sidewalk waiting for her family.
•Echidne rips into another study about how all our sex differences are hardwired into us.
•Microsoft’s CEO says women hurt their careers by asking for raises.
•Republicans say it’s inappropriate for Obama to work with environmental groups on environmental policy.
•The FBI Director wants to make it easier to access your smartphone. For your own good, of course. The Intercept says the director’s examples of If Only We’d Had Cell Phone Access We Could Have Saved People are wrong. And while police may not be able to force you to enter your password into the phone, they can force you to use a fingerprint decryption.
•Students say a North Carolina teacher told them if she had 10 days to live, she’d try to kill all the black people.
•Now that an appeals court has sided with gay marriage bans, the Supreme Court will have to resolve the split.
•A judge rejects a lawsuit by Seattle police officers. The officers claimed restrictions on the use of excessive force violated their rights.
•An “incel” (involuntary celibate) thinks we need a government program paying women to date guys like him.
•Iran executes a man for “insulting” the Biblical prophet Jonah.
•Breitbart.com claims Obama’s AG nominee represented the Clintons in Whitewater, then discovers it’s not true (different attorney with same name). Here’s how they sort-of-corrected it.
