Quickies

• It's good to see people are going to harp all over the media's insistence that Gov. Mitch Daniels is fiscally conservative.

• Cooper makes a great comparison between how unhinged Trump is and how his terrible choice of words goes unchecked by the media.

• Fox News has moved into afterbirther territory by focusing on President Obama's father and the fact he wasn't an American citizen and that interracial marriage was illegal in some parts of the U.S. at the time.  Yet no mention of the fact that Barack only met his father one time after the age of 2.

• Excellent write up from TPM about how absurd the people are who believe the president's long form birth certificate is a fake; and how the conspiracy evolved in just a matter of minutes with help from the Republican right wing.

• Want to know how and why the economy slowed to 1.8% growth in the first quarter this year?  This one graph explains it.

--Go have a good weekend and enjoy what might be some nice weather.  More storms are expected here this weekend so I'm going to enjoy the sun while I can.