Thursday THREATCON - 30 October 2014

It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this week. Due to the midterm elections next week, our Threatcon Color Code is RED TEA

We’ve been keeping up a liveblog of election shenanigans, but their best cheating may still not be enough for the GOP to win: pollster Nate Cohn says that Democrats are consistently undercounted in polls
Why do conservatives fear Obamacare? Because it’s the biggest blow anyone has struck against wealth inequality in a long time
Here’s how terrible Obama is for the economy: it grew 3.5% in the third quarter
Laws do not prevent abortions, they only prevent safe ones
‘Sovereign citizens’ Tom Lind and Jeff Murphy of Santa Barbara, CA have been charged with filing a false lien against a Judge’s home in retaliation for ruling against Lind
Which institution is highly respected by conservatives, but believes in climate change? The Pentagon
Florida Governor Rick Scott’s administration has earned the enmity of solar power advocates
A second major law firm has ceased to work on John Boehner’s lawsuit against President Obama
The Bay Area class divide presented in two Google location maps:

Keepin’ calm and carryin’ on, eh? Last week’s spate of attacks in Canada has not turned the nation into a bunch of Islamophobes
‘Sovereign citizen’ Alberto Marrufo was sentenced to five years for theft and fraud
Here are five absolutely insane conspiracy theories about Ebola that conservatives actually believe
John White of Westmont, IL was charged with defacing and vandalizing a synagogue last week
Arizona’s Republican candidate for Secretary of State refuses to explain her YES vote on a 2011 “birther bill”
Republicans are pushing the Cliven Bundy land privatization scheme as policy. Meanwhile, High Country News has been analyzing reports gleaned under FOIA and finds “an ominous pattern of hostility towards government employees”
Michael Peroutka, the former League of the South member who sang ‘Dixie’ for a crowd in 2012 and called it “the national anthem,” is bringing the wrong kind of national visibility to the Anne Arundel County Council race
Your US RDA of all-too-telling outrage porn: Christofascist and professional homophobe Frank Turek says that states should fight against gay marriage the way they fought to preserve slavery

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Confronted by a police officer for driving with a suspended license, an unnamed 50-year old man told an officer that he was a sovereign citizen who was “traveling,” not driving
Pastor Ronald Joling and his wife Dorothea were convicted of defrauding the government after years of refusing to pay taxes
Michael Rinderele received a five-year sentence for threatening and retaliating against a New Jersey judge and 27 other officials
A new Obama administration rule will strip student loan system access from for-profit colleges whose students graduate “career-oriented” programs without being able to pay their student loans
The Memphis Police Department is using the tragic murder of two West Memphis officers by a father-and-son ‘sovereign citizen’ duo four years ago to train officers in how to deal with sovereigns
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell owes most of his personal fortune to his in-laws’ shipping company — which is being investigated for drug trafficking
You already knew that Georgia’s Republican Governor Nathan Deal was bad for the state economy — but did you know he’s the subject of the longest-running corruption scandal in state history?
Racial resentment drives tea party membership. Is anyone surprised? Anyone?
BONUS outrage porn: watch Republican candidates deny climate science