If you were as rich as Charles and David Koch, would you spend a lot of money trying to get even richer? I wouldn’t, but then I guess I just don’t treasure “liberty.”
Here are some remains of the day:
* Ian Millhiser listened closely to Justice Kennedy’s questions during oral arguments on the Hobby Lobby case and fears the worst.
* Iowa Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Braley has to apologize for suggesting (in Texas) that Republican Senate takeover would elevate to chairman of the Judiciary Committee a “farmer from Iowa who never went to law school.” That would be Chuck Grassley.
* My home state of Georgia getting massive attention for enacting landmark “guns everywhere” legislation.
* Speaking of guns: at Ten Miles Square, John Stoehr discusses the White House decision to put the nomination of Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General “on ice” after heavy opposition from the NRA.
* At College Guide, Robert Atkinson takes on those who deny existence of shortages in STEM workers.
And in sorta non-political news:
* Gloria Steinem turned 80 today.
That’s it for Tuesday. Let’s close with Rosco Gordon’s biggest hit, “Booted,” from 1951. Sorry, no rooster-on-the-piano video for this one.
Selah.
