All Hat No Cattle: Shaming Unwed Moms Was the Law in Jeb Bush’s Florida

Shaming Unwed Moms Was the Law in Jeb Bush’s Florida
...This provision required any woman who wanted to put her child up for adoption, but who didn’t know who the father was, to take out an ad in a local newspaper listing her name and description, as well as the name and description of each possible father and the locations where the baby could have been conceived.

New poll shows 89% of Republican voters are white. The other 11% are undecided.- Paul Solomon

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

Duyba campaigned as the guy people would like to have a beer with... and how did that work out for the country?- Snarky Pundit

About Face!
President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more U.S. troops to Iraq on Wednesday to advise and assist local forces in an effort to reverse the recent gains of the Islamic State.

TSA Is Soft On Terrorism
The agency in charge of US transportation security came under renewed fire as a report revealed that American airports had hired dozens of people with terror links.

Need a weapon to fight racism? Carry a cellphone.- The Daily Edge

Pool Party Cop Resigns After Realizing He Has No Thin Blue Line
Eric Casebolt did something right: He resigned from the McKinney, Tx., police force four days after a Texas pool party in a Dallas suburb became the latest red dot of racial tension on the national map. Not that he really had any choice. His reprehensible and, according to the McKinney police chief, “indefensible” treatment of a bikini-clad 15-year-old African American girl was caught on video.

Republican Shenanigans

Rotating First Lady For Bachelor Lindsey Graham
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a lifelong bachelor and long-shot presidential candidate, disclosed in an interview published Tuesday how he might handle the issue of first lady if elected.

"Well, I've got a sister. She could play that role if necessary,” Graham, 59, told the Daily Mail during an interview at a recent campaign event.

"I've got a lot of friends. We'll have a rotating first lady," Graham added, chuckling

I nominate John McCain as one of Graham's First Ladies. - Matt Laslo

Scott Walker reminds Wisconsin that if he can't have $200 million of their tax $ to build a stadium the Socialists have won.- John Fugelsang

Rock The Voter News

Thinking conservatives newest form of abstinence education is to just refer to sex as ObamaSex.- LOLGOP

The Yearly GOP Occurrence: Government Shutdown
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Wednesday will warn Republicans that if they don’t reach another bipartisan deal to lift spending ceilings, they risk causing another government shutdown this fall.

I applaud #CaitlynJenner's bravery in making her transition to her real self. Now go for the gold. Change political parties.- Kona Lowell

Business/Tech News

THINK ABOUT IT: The Walton family controls more wealth than the bottom 48.8 million families combined. And the GOP wants to cut their taxes.- LOLGOP

Having to pay slightly higher taxes because of your wealth is pretty much a sign you've won.- John Fugelsang

Profiting Off Of Sick People. Florida Is #1
Talk about sticker shock: Some U.S. hospitals charge patients more than 10 times the rates paid by Medicare.

Of the 50 U.S. hospitals with the highest charges, 49 are for-profit institutions, 20 operate in Florida, and half are owned by a single chain, according to a study published in the journal Health Affairs Monday.

This was filmed in 2008. It is stunning in more ways than one.

Mattel has announced it will come out with a new line of Barbie dolls that will be more racially diverse than previous generations. “Still not interested,” said Ken.- Seth Myers