GOP Wants to Fund Israeli ‘Iron Dome’, Smokers Live Longer Than Obese, We’re Going Extinct: A.M. Links

Speaking in Los Angeles Thursday, President

Obama touted “economic patriotism,” which apparently involves
keeping companies headquartered here by fiat. The president called
on Congress to pass a bill ending the “unpatriotic tax loophole”
that allows U.S. companies to acquire foreign companies
and “invert” business overseas.
Exhausted by doing
something surprisingly sane last week, Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is promoting GOP legislation providing
emergency
funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.
“Republicans are united in support of our ally Israel,” he said
yesterday.
Israeli and Palestinian forces clashed in the West Bank
Thursday night, after the Fatah government there called
for a “day of rage” in solidarity with Gaza.
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals
sided with the Food and Drug Administration in a lawsuit filed
by activists seeking to end the use of antibiotics in livestock
feed.
Researchers from the National Cancer Institute found that
smokers
live longer than the very obese.
Federal agencies’ next college campus meddling may
involve transgender
student accomodations.
Scientists say we may be in the early days of the planet’s
sixth mass
biological extinction event.