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It’s Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson’s Just Did

Grand juries nearly always decide to indict. Or at least, they nearly always do so in cases that don’t involve police officers.

When someone asks about Black on Black crime, they aren’t looking for an answer.

Whenever a black kid is gunned down by police, the first thing I see pop up on my Facebook feeds is Why isn’t anyone speaking out about black on black crime? This is concern trolling at its worst. Virtually everyone agrees that in the case of black on black crime, that one party is the… Continue reading When someone asks about Black on Black crime, they aren’t looking for an answer.

Woman saying ‘we’re ready for Ferguson’ accidentally shoots self in head, dies | WGN-TV

The female victim, identified in a police report as Becca Campbell, 26, was a passenger in a car involved in an auto accident. Her 33-year-old boyfriend was driving, the sources told CNN.

The boyfriend, who wasn’t identified, told police that the couple had bought a gun because of fears of unrest related to the pending grand jury decision on the shooting of Michael Brown, the sources said.

The Wisdom of Peter Schiff

what Schiff says very clearly is that according to his worldview, rolling the printing presses should cause inflation (by the normal definition) even in a depressed economy, and that high unemployment should in fact make inflation higher, not lower. He has that exactly right: the central dispute is between those who see depressions as the result of inadequate demand, implying that inflation will fall and that printing money does nothing unless it boosts employment, and those who see depressions as the result of maladapation of resources or something — anyway, something on the supply side — who predict that running the printing presses will lead to runaway inflation. How could you test those rival views? Why, how about having a huge slump, to which central banks respond with aggressive monetary expansion? And that is, of course, the test we’ve just run. And everywhere you look, inflation is low, verging on deflation. So we’ve just run the Schiff test — and his brand of economics, by his own criteria, loses with flying colors. And that goes for just about all anti-Keynesian doctrines: we ran as close to a clean experiment as you’re ever going to get, and the answer is no.

And it isn’t just the US economy. The same experiment was run across Europe and in Japan. Schiff’s theory is zero for twelve. In no economy did we get results they his theory would demand.

Goldman Sachs’ Merry-Go-Round of Metal

We are living in a golden age of market manipulation. Never have so few been able to control so much in such an opaque system.

House Intelligence Committee’s Benghazi Report Torches Conspiracy Theories

Among its findings, the report says CIA personnel responded not just well, but heroically; that there was no “stand down” order, as some critics have claimed; there was no intimidation of witnesses by superiors; there was no intelligence failure prior to the attack; and that a “mixed group” of individuals, including some linked to al Qaeda, participated in the attack.

But perhaps the most significant conclusion is its finding that Rice’s talking points – a key focus of the Benghazi Select Committee empaneled by House Speaker John Boehner – were not part of an attempt to conceal the severity of the incident.

In other words, Benghazi was much to do about nothing. But the GOP got to get angry and toss around conspiracy theories.

Rand doesn’t stand

If Paul really wanted to help the cause of reining in the NSA, critics say he could have broken with his party and voted to let the bill move ahead — a headline-grabbing moment that would make him stand out from the rest of the Republican presidential field. Instead, the Kentucky senator — the GOP’s most famous libertarian — voted to block the bill from even being debated.

Rand Paul, not a friend of civil liberties.

Does the White Working Class Hate Welfare for the Poor?

in the $30k-$75k range, you have 57% of GOP voters (non-voters are generally more progressive still) who think the government’s support for poor people is the right amount or not enough.

There is a gap between what GOP voters want, and what they vote for.

Charlie Rangel: I Thought ‘White Cracker’ Was A ‘Term Of Endearment’

“I thought that was a term of endearment, you know,” Rangel said. “[The tea party is] so proud of their heritage and all the things they believe in.”

A little reminder that Rangel is still around.

Fox Host Calls On Fox To Drop 2016 Candidates From Payroll

Fox dropped Dr. Ben Carson as a contributor, which Kurtz said was a good call.

“This was a smart move by Fox because a guy who’s more or less running for president shouldn’t be on a network payroll,” he said. “Which means Fox also faces a decision about former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is openly weighing a White House bid as well.”

It’s always nice to see actual journalism at FOX.