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Arends: College Tuition is a Scam

Brett Arends, MarketWatch: You sit here today, $30,000 or $40,000 in debt, as the latest victims of what may well be the biggest conspiracy in U.S. history. It is a conspiracy so big and powerful that Dan Brown won't even touch it. It's a conspiracy so insidious that you will rarely hear its name. Show More Summary

Midday open thread

You people...rock! Since Markos announced our endorsement of Virginia state senate candidate Evandra Thompson over Liebermanesque turn-coat Rosalyn Dance, more than three hundred of you have donated more than $8,000 (quadrupling her cash on hand). Show More Summary

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Docket: Missing Entries

Yesterday, the Judge in the Boston bombing case of defendant Dzokhar Tsarnaev issued an order denying a motion filed under seal in which the defense asked to take periodic photographs of Dzhokhar (Jahar) at Devens Medical Facility to be able to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

When Your Safety Cuts Into Industry’s Bottom Line You Lose…Your Fingers

I just read a really amazing story about a product that stops table saws from cutting off people’s fingers. You might think that manufacturers would race to incorporate this feature into their products. Yet the opposite happened. A coalition...Show More Summary

538: No Statistical Basis for Audit Claims

Nate Silver: [B]ased on some simple math that I'll present in a moment, it's likely that hundreds of thousands of Mitt Romney voters were selected for an audit in 2012. However, it's also likely that hundreds of thousands of [President] Obama's supporters were audited.... Show More Summary

National Review Caricatures Hillary Clinton As Infamous Roman Emperor

The cover of the June 3 issue of National Review shows a caricature of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with exaggerated features and playing a fiddle in front of what appears to be the attacked U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya engulfed by flames. Show More Summary

President Hollande Has Signed France’s Marriage Bill Into Law

It's official.

Gay Man Shot To Death In Presumed Anti-Gay Attack In Manhattan

Police believe the shooting death of a 32-year-old man in Greenwich Village Friday night was a hate crime. Law enforcement sources say the victim, who lived in Brooklyn, was walking with a friend along Sixth Avenue at about midnight when a group that included the suspect, made anti-gay remarks. A short time later, the suspect [...]

Michele Bachmann: ‘Our Life And Death Very Well May Be In The Hands Of The IRS’

There’s nothing like hyperbole to excite the base. “I think the President will be in a box, I think he’ll be forced to repeal his signature legislation…literally the decisions of our life and death may very well be in the hands of the IRS. That’s a chilling thought. It isn’t just the IRS…it’s all federal [...]

Romney: Benghazi Talking Points Didn’t Change Election Outcome

Mitt Romney appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. On Friday, Leno asked Romney whether he believes he might have beaten Obama in the November election if the initial narrative from the administration on the motive behind the attacks had been attributed to terrorism instead of a protest. “I don’t think it would have [...]

The Newest Bank Scam That May Get You - And You Won't Know It

Of course. After all, it's not as if anyone is going to stop them! They crashed the world economy and got nothing more than a couple of taps on the wrist, so why wouldn't they do this? California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who filed...Show More Summary

This week in the War on Workers: California hospital workers to strike

Workers at the University of California hospital system are planning a two-day strike to protest inadequate staffing levels, increased use of temp workers, and changes to their pension plan, though the university announced Friday that the California Public Employment Relations Board would seek a temporary restraining order limiting the strike. Show More Summary

"A Really Good Guy": Fox Hypes Former Employee's Candidacy

Fox News hyped the candidacy of its former contributor Pete Snyder, calling him "a really good guy." On May 17, the Virginia Republican Convention began. Over the course of the weekend, Virginia Republicans -- as described by a May 17...Show More Summary

The AP Phone Records

Via Kevin Drum, here’s an LA Times article on why the Administration was not happy about the leak of information to AP reporters. Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. [...]

AP Scandal: The Chilling Effect It Will Have on Journalists Who Were Already Working in Chilly Environment

In continuing coverage and discussion of the Justice Department’s seizure of AP records and the implications this has on freedom of the press, I went on “The Marc Steiner Show” on WEAA on Friday.

Have the Pentagon Brass Learned From the Catholic Bishops?

In watching and listening to the unfolding stories over the last week of sexual assault in the military, I could not help but notice how similar the military's mess is to the situation in the Roman Catholic church over child abuse carried out by priests. Show More Summary

The periodic table of elements, in song (video)

U.S. Seizes Bitcoin Exchange Accounts

U.S. authorities have seized the accounts of a Bitcoin digital currency exchange operator, claiming it was functioning as an "unlicensed money service business," court documents showed Friday. A warrant revealed by the Department ofShow More Summary

Saturday morning nutpick: if this is post-racial America...

Today's source material: I guess that Benghazi thing isn't panning out, Republicans don't care about spying on the AP, and the IRS scandal is losing steam. So on to the next one! But... is there anything more stupid than this? As you'll see below the fold, this was worse than Hitler, because it always is.

House Group Reaches Immigration Deal

Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives declared they had reached a tentative deal. A goal of such legislation is to provide a path to...Show More Summary