President Obama Explains Why He Must Appoint A New Justice (Or Else) - Live Feed

Due up at 1635ET, President Obama holds his first post-Scalia press conference. We assume the propaganda du jour will be the imminent need to appoint a new SCOTUS justice... and why anyone who blocks that plan is "peddling fiction." While he is up there, we assume some comments regarding the escalations in Syria will be discussed... and why Russia (and Putin most clearly) are to blame.

 

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Larry Sanders Gets Applauded For Having A Brother Called Bernie

Bernie Sanders’ older brother Larry from Oxford in England, is getting undue applause from the public for having a brother named Bernie campaigning 3,000 miles away to become the next president of the United States. Sanders Junior happens to be setting the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign on fire with his socialist ideas and revolutionary approach. Larry Sanders, an 80-year-old retired academic, is a campaigner for the Green Party and has recently been appointed as the party’s national spokesman on health. Business Insider UK reports: Vermont Sen.

Wombs For Rent, Babies For Sale

What happens when a woman can do anything she wants with her body, including renting out her womb? What happens when anybody who can afford it has the right to pay medical scientists to create human life in a laboratory, and implant it into the womb of a woman who sells her body? What happens when the creation of human life is separated from basic humanity, and turned instead into a commodity?

This horror story can happen. From Slate:

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