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George Zimmerman was taken into custody in Central Florida this afternoon after his estranged wife called police saying he threatened her and her father with a gun, according to Lake Mary police.

Police say they were called to a house on Sprucewood Road on Monday afternoon after a report that Zimmerman was involved in an altercation with another person with a threat involved. WKMG-TV reported the incident happened at his wife’s parents home.

Obama As Polarizing a Figure as George W. Bush

September 9, 2013 Buck Banks

76 percentage points

The presidential approval gap between Democrats and Republicans, which ties George W. Bush’s fourth year as the most polarized years in Gallup records.”During his fourth year in office, an average of 86% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans approved of the job Barack Obama did as president.”

Warren: Supreme Court Is Just a Subsidiary of Big Biz

September 9, 2013 Buck Banks

You follow this pro-corporate trend to its logical conclusion, and sooner or later you’ll end up with a Supreme Court that functions as a wholly owned subsidiary of big business.

— Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), quoted by Politico, denouncing the Supreme Court as a right wing panel that serves the interests of corporate America.

Tiny Minority in Congress Supports Syria Strikes

September 9, 2013 Buck Banks

22

Number of senators and House members — 22 of each — who are willing to say they will support the use of force in response to the reported use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime a USA Today survey finds. Of the 533 lawmakers far more overall — 19 senators and 130 House members — say they will oppose a resolution that would authorize military strikes.

McCrory Makes It Sound Like What’s Happening in N.C. Is a Good Thing

September 9, 2013 Buck Banks

We’re stepping on the toes of a lot of the establishment that’s been controlling this state government for a long, long time, on both the left and the right.

— North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), quoted by the Washington Post.

Weiner: Congress Is Not a ‘Great Place’ to Solve Problems

September 9, 2013 Buck Banks

Congress is not that good a job anymore. You know, frankly there’s such a center of gravity around stopping anything from happening, the Tea Party Right has frankly held hostage the place. It’s not a great place if you want to go and solve problems.

— New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, on the Today Show.

Take It Back

September 9, 2013 Buck Banks

The Attack Syria Team continues to strategize
About how to get Congress to legitimize
Us bombing Assad,
But if they do, then by God,
We should take away Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.

California GOP Voter Registration Drops Below 30%

September 9, 2013September 9, 2013 Jon Ponder

28.9%

Share of Californians who are registered as Republicans as of February 2013, compared with 43.9% registered as Democrats and 20.9% as independents, according to the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. Since 2003, the share of registered Dems has remained steady and the percentage of independents has risen from 15.3%, but the percentage of registered Republicans has dropped 6.3 percentage points from 35.2%. As a result, there are 100,000 fewer registered Republicans in the state now than there were a decade ago, despite the fact that California’s population has grown by 2.9 million.

Fact Checking GOP Propaganda in North Carolina

September 9, 2013September 9, 2013 Jon Ponder

Rob Christensen at the Raleigh News & Observer fact checks 10 key planks in the North Carolina Republican Party’s propaganda platform:

Myth No. 1: North Carolina’s public schools are failing its children.

North Carolina fourth and eighth graders performed better than the U.S. national average, according to the 2011 Trends in International Mathematic and Science Study. They out-scored students in Australia, Israel, Sweden, Italy and Norway.

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Ad Shows What Australians Think of Rupert Murdoch Meddling in Their Politics

September 7, 2013 Jon Ponder

Month: September 2013

Breaking News: George Zimmerman is Still an Asshole

Obama As Polarizing a Figure as George W. Bush

76 percentage points

The presidential approval gap between Democrats and Republicans, which ties George W. Bush’s fourth year as the most polarized years in Gallup records.”During his fourth year in office, an average of 86% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans approved of the job Barack Obama did as president.”

Warren: Supreme Court Is Just a Subsidiary of Big Biz

You follow this pro-corporate trend to its logical conclusion, and sooner or later you’ll end up with a Supreme Court that functions as a wholly owned subsidiary of big business.

— Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), quoted by Politico, denouncing the Supreme Court as a right wing panel that serves the interests of corporate America.

Tiny Minority in Congress Supports Syria Strikes

22

McCrory Makes It Sound Like What’s Happening in N.C. Is a Good Thing

We’re stepping on the toes of a lot of the establishment that’s been controlling this state government for a long, long time, on both the left and the right.

— North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), quoted by the Washington Post.

Weiner: Congress Is Not a ‘Great Place’ to Solve Problems

Congress is not that good a job anymore. You know, frankly there’s such a center of gravity around stopping anything from happening, the Tea Party Right has frankly held hostage the place. It’s not a great place if you want to go and solve problems.

— New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, on the Today Show.

Take It Back

California GOP Voter Registration Drops Below 30%

28.9%

Fact Checking GOP Propaganda in North Carolina

Ad Shows What Australians Think of Rupert Murdoch Meddling in Their Politics

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.