Stop Me if You Think You’ve Heard This One Before

1. You Can’t Outlaw a Free Lunch: The Senate’s lobbying reform proposal will fail because it’s designed to fail — It says something that the most vocal supporters of a bill purporting to strike at power politics are people in power. — Why do we need lobbyists anyways? …congressmen need lobbyists—who have actually read the bills being debated—to know what it is they’re voting for.
2. Conscientious objector gets honored burial — “He wanted to serve. He just didn’t want to kill anybody.”
3. Maine’s Torture Connection — That Canadian guy that we shipped out to Syria to be “interrogated”? His flight had a layover in Bangor, ME, major hub for wrongly alleged terrorists, both inbound and outbound, apparently.
4. An image. —