Eric Holder Heads to Ferguson to Fix Everything, Ice-Bucket Challenge Rules the Internet, Teachers Unions vs. Police Unions in NYC: A.M. Links

Attorney General Eric Holder will
visit Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday, so that whole problem
is just going to go away immediately, probably.
A curious feud between New York City teachers union leadership
and the police department
is raising eybrows and tensions among the rank-and-file of both
fields.
The Washington Post’s Michael Gerson writes that Rand
Paul is the wrong Republican to talk about racial issues
because… (cue things libertarians have heard a billion
times).
The runaway success of the ice-bucket challenge
is inspiring other charities to ask people to dump cold water
on themselves for the good of humanity.
Pardon me, but we
need more presidential pardons, writes The New York
Times editorial board.
J.K. Rowling
issued another Harry Potter short story, again, as a tactic to
drive traffic to the online Potter experience, Pottermore. Sounds
like “Harry Potter and the Neverending Promotions,” huh?