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What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
• Homeless for the holidays—and every other day of the year, by Denise Oliver Velez
• Top ten news stories that did not appear in 2015, but that I really wanted to read, by Susan Grigsby
• Conservative gets convicted, dodges prison time, and is convinced the liberals are behind it all, by Hunter
• Cops automatically shoot down all people carrying a gun on the street don't they, by Frank Vyan Walton
• Does Paris deal fall short? Yes. But no difference between the parties on climate change? Come on, by Ian Reifowitz
• The devil’s right hand, by Mark E Andersen
• ‘Fox Primary’ gives Trump more time than anyone else:
From May 1 to December 15, leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lapped the rest of the field in interview airtime on Fox News. Trump's 22 hours and 46 minutes of airtime was more than twice as much as any other candidate during the period studied. Trump racked up more airtime on the network than Sen. Ted Cruz, former Gov. Jeb Bush, and Sen. Marco Rubio combined.
Interviews with the Republican field have been a near-constant fixture of Fox News' programming during the second half of 2015, and The Fox Primary is showing no signs of slowing down as we approach 2016 and the first primaries.
• Fierce storms kill at least nine: Twenty tornadoes in five states killed at least nine and injured at least 40. In Clarksdale, Mississippi, a tornado flattened the airport there and wiped out a subdivision in the Bellevue area, the station adds.
• Trump tweets that Hannah Tandy, a fifth-grade girl, asked Hillary Clinton a staged question about bullying:
But Hannah’s mother, Lexie Tandy, pushed back at Trump’s claim, saying her daughter wasn’t prompted to ask the question [at an event in Keota, Iowa]. She also said she wasn’t in attendance because she didn't know Hannah planned to participate.
“I don’t want to get in a big match-up with Donald Trump, but let me tell you, I will be in one if he makes comments about my daughter,” Tandy said, according to
The Des Moines Register. “She’s 10. She’s just a little girl.”
• 90-year-old gay man’s daughter came out first, then him.
• Is lender discrimination driving black churches into bankruptcy?
A long line of research shows that black consumers pay higher rates for credit, including mortgages and car loans. A new study suggests the same kind of financial discrimination may apply to black churches.
Of the 654 religious congregations to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection between 2006 and 2013, 60 percent had black pastors or predominantly black membership, according to a just-published paper by Pamela Foohey, an associate professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Meanwhile, black churches make up only 21 percent of U.S. congregations, according to a 2012 analysis.
• Tennessee Woman charged with attempted murder for trying to self-induce abortion: Anna Yocca, 31, was 24 weeks pregnant when she used a coat-hanger in September in a try to terminate her pregnancy. It failed and she began bleeding heavily. She was taken to the hospital where doctors delivered a 1.5-pound boy. He remains in the hospital with severe medical problems from the premature delivery. Yocca, who is being detained in lieu of $200,000, has pled “not guilty” to a charge of first-degree attempted homicide:
Tennessee has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, and the state legislature plans to propose more. In 2014, an amendment to the state constitution clarified that it would not protect a woman's right to an abortion, and prohibited public funding for abortion—despite that fact that state and federal dollars cannot legally be used to fund abortion. The average cost of an abortion in the state has been calculated to be $475-$680. Clinics in Tennessee don't perform abortions after 16 weeks.
• On “today’s” Kagro in the Morning show, you’re being haunted by the ghost of episodes past! Our Dec. 30, 2014 show reminds you of the time when Steve Scalise was actually considered a problem for the Gop, North Korea hacked Hollywood, and Jane Meyer revealed the Queen of Torture.