Copenhagen free speech debate shooting: One dead  —  Gunmen killed one person and injured three police officers during a free speech debate in Copenhagen attended by a controversial Swedish cartoonist, officials said.  —  The French ambassador was also present at the debate.

Scott Walker Needs an Eraser  —  Lately, the big star in the race for the Republican presidential nomination has been Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin.  He gave a rip-roaring speech at a conservative confab in Iowa last month, and it's been his moment ever since.

O-Care fans: SCOTUS case ‘unraveling’  —  Supporters of ObamaCare think they've found a fatal flaw in the GOP-led legal challenge to the healthcare law at the Supreme Court.  —  Legal experts in favor of the Affordable Care Act say new information unearthed about the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell …

McConnell Is Blowing It...Big Time  —  My take on Sen. Mitch McConnell has always been that he is not so interested in issues/policies as he is in the power game of politics.  That approach was never on display more clearly than when he said that his number one goal was to ensure that Obama …

The Killer, the Reporter, and the Southern Poverty Law Center  —  Craig Hicks, the man who murdered three Muslims in North Carolina this week, had a Facebook page.  One of the groups he liked on it is the Southern Poverty Law Center.  —  An AlterNet article about Hicks …

Paraded in cages ‘to be burned alive’ like Jordanian pilot: ISIS releases video claiming to show 17 Kurdish fighters in humiliating procession through Iraqi city  —  Heads bowed in terror the orange-clad Kurdish fighters are paraded through streets filled with jeering militants in the latest horrifying video release from Islamic State.

Republican in Montana yoga pants obscenity uproar explains: it was a joke  —  State representative David Moore prompted outrage with what he insists was an ‘off-the-cuff remark’ but the Associated Press stands by its reporting  —  It was all a joke.  —  That's the message …

Jeb Bush Doesn't Want to Talk About Brother-Led Wars  —  Florida Governor Jeb Bush said Friday that he has little interest in discussing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which started while his brother was president, as he aims to run a joyful campaign focused on outing a positive vision of the future.

State Sen. Thomas Croci wants terrorist registry to track where offenders live in New York  —  The ‘New York State Terrorist Registry’, which would be accessible to the public on the Web, would be modeled after the one now used to track registered sex offenders living in New York and would require the terrorists.

Bill Clinton Apologizes To Mexico For War On Drugs  —  Former President Bill Clinton apologized to Mexico during a speech there last week for a backfired U.S. war on drugs that has fueled spiraling violence.  —  “I wish you had no narco-trafficking, but it's not really your fault,” …

Naked Came The Class Warriors  —  Shaila Dewan, in the Upshot, notes that a number of Republican governors are proposing tax increases — but that in every case the tax hike would fall most heavily on those with lower incomes, and many are proposing simultaneous tax cuts for business and/or the wealthy.