Americans Realize Their Own Members of Congress Suck, SpaceX to Launch From Texas, Obama Ponders Executive Action Against ‘Corporate Deserters’: P.M. Links

• Americans
  belatedly have a sad over the quality of congressional
  representation, with a record 51 percent saying they disapprove
  of the performance of their own federal lawmakers.
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX announce its
  first commercial launchpad will be located in the great state of
  Texas—after a few checks clear from the Bank of the
  Taxpayers.
• The Obama administration is considering ways it can bypass
  Congress to
  prevent American corporations from relocating overseas to lower
  their tax bills. Drones?
• A U.S. Army major general was
  killed at a training facility by a gunman dressed in an Afghan
  army uniform. More than a dozen others are injured, and the death
  toll is expected to rise.
• At cease-fire talks in Cairo, Israeli officials are
  focusing on demilitarizing the Gaza strip. Good luck.
• Vladimir Putin wants to return the favor
  with economic sanctions against western countries that seek to
  penalize Russia for meddling in Ukraine. And down the rabbit hole
  we go.

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