NEA Turns on Common Core, Colo. Making Bank on Marijuana, New York Limits Police Lying: P.M. Links

• The National Education
  Association, the large, powerful teacher’s union, has turned
  against
  Common Core standards for public schools. The president says
  some standards need to be rewritten with teacher input.
• The governor of Colorado expects the state to bring in more in
  tax revenue from
  marijuana sales than initially expected, which means they just
  can’t wait to spend it on government programs.
• Ahmed al-Darbi, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner from Saudi Arabia,
  has
  pleaded guilty to helping plan a suicide bombing off the cost
  of Yemen in 2002 that struck a French tanker, killing one.
• 
  Oregon’s attorney general has joined Virginia’s by refusing to
  defend the state’s ban on gay marriage recognition.
• New York’s top court ruled that police
  lied too much to draw out confessions in two separate
  interrogations, and the statements were tossed out.
• Pussy Riot has released the
  video they shot yesterday at the Sochi Olympics, which includes
  them being attacked by Russians.

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