Robin Williams once said that he wanted to emulate Jonathan Winters.  I think that he did himself and Jonathan proud.  

Michael Brown, the unarmed teen shot by cops in Ferguson.  His family has just hired Ben Crump, the same guy who represented Trevon Martin's family down in Florida.

"This was not an anti-American statement," the two men insist. "From our Berlin background, we were a little surprised that it got the reaction it did. We really didn't intend to embarrass the police. We saw the bridge, which was designed by a German, trained in Berlin, who came to America because it was the place to fulfill his dreams, as the most beautiful expression of a great public space. That beauty was what we were trying to capture."

The U.S. government has begun to funnel weapons directly to Kurdish forces fighting Islamist militants in northern Iraq, deepening U.S. involvement in a conflict that the Obama administration had long sought to avoid.

The arms pipeline, which one former U.S. military official described as a trickle, opened in recent days as the Kurds' pesh merga fighters have struggled to stem advances by Islamic State forces that have swept across northern Iraq.

The weapons are being supplied by the CIA, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Obama administration has not publicly acknowledged the spy agency's involvement.

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Travis County District Court Judge David Crain declared a mistrial in the criminal case against Mark Fruge because there were not enough jurors that both parties found suitable.

The trial has been rescheduled for Oct. 13.

Crain told prospective jurors that there were several people who were supposed to show up for jury duty but didn't, and that after others were dismissed for various reasons, there weren't enough remaining that both the prosecutor and the defense attorney agreed to allow on the jury.

Red Wings New publicly financed stadium

I mean seriously.  This is a bipartisan effort to screw over the taxpayer.

This is what happens when you let government control too much.  

How could anyone argue with a straight face that this will benefit the city of Detroit.   In most cities this can be written off as a luxury tax or some sort of justifiable public expense.  

However Detroit is flat broke and while pensions are cut and services reigned in they are going to pile on 30 years of debt to build a stadium for a privately held company?  

About 7.5 million households in the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas don't have access to a privately owned vehicle, according to a 2011 study from the Brookings Institution. Roughly 60 percent of those households are low income, and about 60 percent are nonwhite. The vast majority have access to public transit.

This March, the Urban Institute released a statistical analysis of federal data that found a link between car ownership and employment. Researchers took a look at federal data collected on two groups of low-income people who received housing vouchers in the 1990s and early 2000s.

"The families who had cars were more likely to get access to high-quality neighborhoods--and they were more likely to get jobs if they didn't have jobs already, and keep jobs if they already had jobs, than those households who did not have cars," says Rolf Pendall, director of the Urban Institute's Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center. Access to public transit was associated with keeping a job but not with getting one.

It's unclear to what extent economic benefits outweigh the costs of car ownership--paying for the car, plus insurance, gas, car repairs, and so on. But in areas with little transit, having a car clearly helps. The suburbs are home to many low- and middle-income jobs that can be hard to reach without a car. Accessing these workplaces is at best time-consuming and at worst impossible for low-income residents of urban neighborhoods.

It's not just that I question the source - I question the data,analysis, and interpretation

In 10 minutes, I found a name on that list of a woman who was killed by a drunk driver (who happened to be an off-duty police officer), a guy who shot at police after beating a cop with a cane, and a woman who was trying to touch / play with a cop's gun at a party. If I had the time and inclination, I bet I could find the real facts behind all those names and whittle that list of "unarmed people killed for no reason" to much, much less, thereby completely obliterating the propaganda value of the report.

Shame on Jezebel and a few other liberal sites I found while Googling for publishing it without checking.  Shoddy "journalism" at its best.