A Blast from Bibi, Feds on Ferguson

Netanyahu: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a blistering attack in Congress yesterday on President Obama’s nuclear negotiations with Iran, and the president immediately dismissed it as “nothing new.”

Netanyahu described Obama’s proposal as a “bad deal” and said the 10-year deal with Iran would leave them with the capacity to make weapons-grade nuclear material within months if they choose. “That deal will not prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. It would all but guarantee that Iran gets those weapons, lots of them,”  Netanyahu said.

He was greeted with two standing ovations when he arrived in Congress and several rounds of thundering applause. But 50 Democrats skipped the speech.

The Israeli leader reiterated the history of long-standing threats to the Jewish State from Iran. Speaking in professional-politician sound bites, he said, “This deal won’t be a farewell to arms. It would be a farewell to arms control.”

Obama pointed out that Netanyahu did not present any alternatives, nor did he discuss the danger of reaching no deal at all with Iran. He said, “If we’re successful in negotiating, then, in fact, this will be the best deal possible to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”

The Ferguson Report: A Justice Department report has determined that the Ferguson, Mo. police department targets the city’s black residents and routinely violates their civil rights. Ferguson is where a cop shot and killed an unarmed black teenager last summer.

Ferguson is 67 percent black and the police force is mostly white. The report determined that in the last two years black people were the subject of 85 percent of traffic stops, 90 percent of citations, 93 percent of arrests, and 88 percent of use-of-force cases.

Going through 35,000 pages of records investigators also found damning emails.

One says President Obama will not be president for long because “what black man holds a steady job for four years?” Another says a black woman in New Orleans was admitted to a hospital to end her pregnancy and then got a check two weeks later from “Crime Stoppers.”

Nation: Georgia has suspended all executions until it checks out its supply of pentobarbital, the drug it uses to kill condemned inmates. Kelly Gissendaner, 47, got an indefinite reprieve Monday night when the drug to be used on her appeared to be of questionable quality.

> The House voted yesterday to fund the Department of Homeland Security for another year without attaching a crippling rider to stop President Obama’s immigration reform.

Pillow Talk: Former General David Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for revealing his classified journals to a woman with whom he was having an affair while she was writing his biography. The affair with Army reservist Paula Broadwell brought down the general’s high and mighty reputation and forced his resignation as director of the CIA. Petraeus has to pay a $40,000 fine, but he’s free to continue making a mint as a public speaker and a partner in a private equity firm.

Law From On High: A conservative and evidently very religious Texas legislator introduced a bill to legalize marijuana on the grounds that God doesn’t make mistakes. “Everything that God made is good, even marijuana” said state Rep. David Simpson. He went on, “The conservative thought is that government doesn’t need to fix something that God made good.” Of course, everyone immediately wanted to know where to get God’s righteous stuff.

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