Play of the Day: Demrat Congresscritter Bob Etheridge of North Carolina gets up close and personal with a Breitbart-affiliated Flip-wielder. We’re supposed to condemn Etheridge for manhandling the asshole who won’t identify himself (and cravenly blurs his own face on the video), but instead we’ll condemn Etheridge for later apologizing.

Hey, we don’t like snarky ambush interviews when Michael Moore does them, either.

Democratic Congressman Caught On Camera Roughing Up College Student [TPM]

While we’re on the subject of Raping the Earth…

INTERVIEWER: What about mountaintop removal?

PAUL: I think whoever owns the property can do with the property as they wish, and if the coal company buys it from a private property owner and they want to do it, fine. The other thing I think is that I think coal gets a bad name, because I think a lot of the land apparently is quite desirable once it’s been flattened out. As I came over here from Harlan, you’ve got quite a few hills. I don’t think anybody’s going to be missing a hill or two here and there.

Hey, no problem. Randy’s patients aren’t going to be missing his lack of board certification, either.

Rand Paul on mountaintop removal: “I don’t think anyone’s going to be missing a hill or two here and there” [Crooks and Liars, via Think Progress]

One day in third grade, our friend Barry showed us a pamphlet with a map of Vietnam inside. Scattered across the map were pictures of gas pumps. On the gauge of each pump was a number. The number reflected war dead in that area.

For convenience, we usually date our political awakening to that moment. It was Spring 1968.

As it happens, we don’t recall Vietnam joining OPEC in the intervening decades, so we can’t vouch for the research the pumps represented. But it was our first exposure to what later would be summarized as Follow The Money, which, when we think about it, is really just an adjunct to Occam’s Razor. The simplest explanation of a political act usually involves cash.

Hey, did you know Afghanistan’s a wonderful place to run an oil pipeline?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW4IiwmaYNk

Title: “The Overton Window”

Author: Kevin Balfe (attributed to Glenn Beck)

Rank: 5

Blurb: “A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed… can it be stopped?”

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JNOV reports:

These are pictures of the 9th Ward: The levee where it broke and flooded the street, and houses with the graffiti that shows the date the house was searched — about a month after the flood.

All the open fields were neighborhoods that basically reverted to nature — there are only a handful of homes, plus some of those Brad Pitt solar homes. Everywhere you look is tall grass for blocks and blocks and blocks. Who knows what sort of wildlife is living in that grass?

The road near the levee is still not paved. Fats Domino still lives in the 9th Ward.

• Mismatched socks
• That ant crawling up your wall
• Long division

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“Oklahoma State Senator Rex Duncan (R) is pushing for a ballot measure that would prohibit courts from considering international or sharia law when deciding cases. He says the measure is a ‘preemptive strike’ against ‘liberal judges’ who want to ‘undermine those founding principles’ of America.” [TPM]