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

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  • 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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