Poll Respondents Say Mitt Sucks Less Than Barry, U.S. Construction Projects Falter in Afghanistan, Nine Arrested in Anaheim Police Protests: P.M. Links

Poll Respondents Say Mitt Sucks Less Than Barry, U.S. Construction Projects Falter in Afghanistan, Nine Arrested in Anaheim Police Protests: P.M. Links

| July 30, 2012

  • Pussy Riot band membersMitt Romney has a
    very slim lead     over Barack Obama on issues of leadership,
    honesty and personality among poll respondents. Uh huh. Yeah,
    that’s quite a contest.
  • American plans for massive construction projects in Afghanistan
    are running so far behind that the U.S. will (supposedly) be

    long gone before they’re built    . And after they’re in place,
    they should start crumbling pronto, since Afghanistan’s government
    isn’t expected to have the resources to maintain them.
  • For the third quarter running,
    Spain’s economy shrank    , helping to
    erode confidence and fuel recession worries     across the
    struggling euro zone.
  • Raymond and Thomas Highers spent a quarter-century in prison
    before their murder convictions were overturned after witnesses
    fingered another shooter. Now they
    wonder how they’ll pick up the pieces     of their lives.
  • Republican delegates pledged to support Ron Paul are fighting
    ouster attempts in
    Massachusetts     and
    Maine    . Hmmm … It’s almost as if freedom-minded people aren’t
    welcome in the GOP.
  • Three female punk rockers who performed an unauthorized
    anti-Putin protest set in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral

    face up to seven years in prison     for their actiona. The Russian
    Orthodox Church, which is tight with Russia’s authoritarian regime,
    is pushing for harsh punishment.
  • Nine people were arrested over the weekend as Anaheim
    residents continue to protest     two recent police shootings, one
    of them of an unarmed man.

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