Mitt Makes a Mint in Democratic Strongholds, Stingers for Syria, Report Says Cops Screwed Up With Kelly Thomas: P.M. Links

• Watch your ass, Barry! Mitt is raising many millions in Democratic strongholds like New York City and Los Angeles.

• Having never seen a conflict that wouldn't look better topped by a little American flag, the CIA is reportedly smuggling Stinger missiles into Syria.
• Because they're "conflict minerals," anybody using tin, tungsten, tantalum or gold will, from now on, have to document its source. You can still go crazy with unobtainium, however.
• Pressed for a sound-bite about Todd Akins's deranged medical opinions, Republican Senate candidate Michael Baumgartner, who is running on an anti-war platform, snapped off a pithy email: "Go f— yourself," accompanied by a photo of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
• Notable primarily as evidence that somebody is actually trying to get into Greece is the news that the country is cracking down on illegal immigration.
• The Australian state of Tasmania is on track to ban the sale of cigarettes to anybody born after 2000. I can't see any problems with enforcing that, can you?
• "Officers found a way of transforming a casual encounter into an incident resulting in death," writes the official investigator into the death of Kelly Thomas at the hands of Fullerton, California, police officers.

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