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Morning Reads – Thursday, June 22, 2017

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On this date in 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, “Tropic of Cancer”, could not be banned.

Peaches

Just a few classic headlines from the GA-6 aftermath

Jimmy Carter

Sweet Tea

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12 Comments
  1. Noway2016

    “GOP turnout confounds pollsters”
    It shouldn’t. Trump asked them to. It really is that simple.

  2. Noway2016

    Rare point of agreement between us. How did Abramoff get jail and Ralph skate?

    • Noway2016

      And he skated, too! What’s up with that?!

      • Will Durant

        He left the Christian Coalition with his robes singed and learned how to better structure extortion and bribes donations. One example would be that your contributions to the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Georgia are not tax deductible to give him more leeway with the IRS. I found it amusing that F&FC was active in the last session in continuing to make sure that Georgians that go to casinos keep taking their money to the tribes in other states.

        • The Eiger

          That argument falls flat with me when I see that over $700,000 worth of taxpayer dollars went to Ossoff’s campaign from planned parenthood.

          • bethebalance

            I assume you’re implicating fungibility? The problem there is that – Are organizations that receive pubic funds not going to be allowed to engage in their own fundraising for organizational purposes? Should they accept public funding but not raise/leverage/augment their own funding sources? Actually, shouldn’t they do something for themselves besides rely on public funding? Analogously, the Byrd amendment does not restrict lobbying altogether, just use of public funds for lobbying. I think it’s fair to complain abt fungibility, but innacurate to say that actual tax dollars paid for electioneering.

  3. Loren

    “2 people kept Cosby from guilty plea”

    Guilty *verdict*.

    Saying two people kept him from a guilty *plea* means something VERY different.

  4. Dave Bearse

    Hey, Jesus was crucified by the Romans over taxes. Bill O’Reilly said so.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/18/killing-jesus-bill-oreilly-review

  5. Dave Bearse

    My initial through was that the reprimand was largely a waste of time. Simply turn the guy out of office. On the other hand, the reprimand is useful to black list him from future office or community boards, given the typical very low information Georgia voter.

  6. Ellynn

    So… the guy who wrote a book on the Iran deal in 2015, that was one of main sources and arguments on how bad the Iranian deal was, is fired from WSJ after the AP reported having emails from 2014 that he was engaging in business dealings with an Iranian American businessman (who one Thee source one the ‘badness of the deal not just for the WSJ reporter, but many other publications and think tanks) who is making arm deals (some with CIA connections) that have benefitted from the hype of how bad the Iran deal is, which we know is bad because said WSJ told us many, many times in the last 2 years.

    Hmmmm….

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