Readings: Climate Change, Voting Rights, What Obama Said, Derp, Rauner, etc

More valuable readings from recent days…

•  Scientists Drop Science Bomb on Climate Skeptics — NYMag 

The GOP’s crocodile tears over voter fraud and Hillary Clinton’s strong embrace of the right side of voting rights.

•  Clinton Calls the GOP Bluff on Voting Rights — NYMag

On quoting people out of context.

•  Columnist: Obama Said Government ‘Never Worked’ — NYMag
•  Study Shows Obama’s Right: You Didn’t Build That — NYMag

The same answer (“tax cuts!”) to every question, every time.  It doesn’t work, but never mind that pesky evidence.

•  This Age of Derp, Kansas Edition – NYTimes.com

•  We bailed you out, and now you want what!?! – The Washington Post

Closer to home (and BTW, people are posting lots of good stuff on various local Facebook pages, here and here).

•  Capitol Fax.com – Your Illinois News Radar » Rauner’s “messaging”
•  Capitol Fax.com – Your Illinois News Radar » Rauner launches fusillade of insults while pledging cooperation

Mis-attributing motives.  Sometimes the evidence is real and compelling – and NOT just a cover for something else.

•  Why Am I A Keynesian? – NYTimes.com

Another Democratic candidate for president.

•  Martin O’Malley on Baltimore, Policing, Inequality, and Reform – The Atlantic