Clippers Owner Donald Sterling to GF — Don't Bring Black People to My Games ... Including Magic Johnson  —  L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling told his GF he does NOT want her bringing black people to his games ... including Magic Johnson ... and it's ALL on tape.

What if the tea party decides to walk away from the GOP in 2016?  It could happen.  —  The relationship (or lack thereof) between the mainstream of the Republican party and the tea party has long been pooh-poohed by GOP strategists as standard operating procedure for a party out of the White House.

A Beating in Detroit  —  DETROIT — AS Detroit burned to the ground on a hot summer night in July 1967, my grandparents stood on their front lawn listening to the sounds of our civic suicide.  —  “Pa,” my grandmother is said to have said.  “We've got to get out of this neighborhood.”

Indictment Expected for Grimm, Staten Island Congressman  —  Representative Michael G. Grimm, a former F.B.I. agent and Marine who capitalized on his straight-arrow image to win a seat in Congress, is expected to be indicted on federal fraud charges as early as next week after a lengthy …

Avril Lavigne picked a bad week to go all racist.  —  She's in big trouble for this:  —  Do you not see what's so cliven about it?  Well, then, you might want to submit to Vox, the website that explains everything to the point needed by an adequately intelligent but generally pretty busy person:

Texas Republican Spent Over $30,000 In Campaign Cash On Chocolates And Ham  —  Hams!  —  Ham.  —  Tom Wallace/Minneapolis Star Tribune / MCT  —  WASHINGTON — Texas Rep. Ralph Hall, the oldest serving member of Congress, spent more than $33,000 in campaign funds on orders from Honey Baked Foods …

Daily Meme: Embrace the Discomfort  —  Try to relax; today's meme is all about discomfort.  And there's no one feeling more of it than Republicans, who were hit yesterday with the rhetorical stylings of their erstwhile hero Cliven Bundy—Nevada rancher, defier of laws, and racial philosopher.

Texas family plagued with ailments gets $3M in 1st-of-its-kind fracking judgment  —  Fracking in the U.S.  —  Dallas (CNN) — When the Parr family started having serious health problems late in 2008, they had no idea it was associated with what they call “a multitude” of drilling operations …

Google+ Is Walking Dead  —  Today, Google's Vic Gundotra announced that he would be leaving the company after eight years.  The first obvious question is where this leaves Google+, Gundotra's baby and primary project for the past several of those years.  —  What we're hearing from multiple sources …

Strip private banks of their power to create money  —  The giant hole at the heart of our market economies needs to be plugged  —  Printing counterfeit banknotes is illegal, but creating private money is not.  The interdependence between the state and the businesses that can do this is the source …

55% Favor Government Oversight of Political Ads and Candidates' Comments  —  The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case aimed at overturning an Ohio law that makes it a crime to make false statements in a political campaign.  But most voters favor government policing of the truthfulness of campaign ads and statements.

Exclusive: Putin Halts All Talks With White House  —  As new U.S. sanctions against Russia loom, the Kremlin has shut down—at least for now—intensive high level communications between top U.S. and Russian officials.  —  Since the invasion of Crimea, President Vladimir Putin …