Reason Morning Links: Mitch McConnell Is in Trouble, Florida Cops Kill Man Holding Toy Gun, Arizona Cop Tasers Mentally Ill Man After He Surrenders

• Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, AKA King Sellout, isn't polling so well in his home state of Kentucky. 
• The 9/11 Commission has released a 10-year report card on the War on Terror. Turns out, it has actually been a war on civil liberties! 
• Cops shoot and kill a Miami man who was walking around with a toy rifle. 
• A tribal cop tasered a mentally ill man outside a Golden Corral. The man had put his hands up and surrendered, but wouldn't turn around. 
• NJ's public sector unions are suing Gov. Chris Christie. 
• "Opening a pot shop in D.C. means signing a paper that says you're a criminal."

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