10.01.13 | 7:09 pm
Write for Us

As I mentioned earlier, we’re going to be publishing two longform pieces a month going forward. A few we’ll do in-house. But mainly we’ll commission them from freelancers or outside writers. We’ve got a couple more in the pipeline. But we’re also very open to pitches. Just shoot us a line at our main email address up top with the subject line “Longform Pitch.”

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10.01.13 | 7:06 pm
Learn Something New Everyday

Martin Bashir taught me today that you can say “a-hole” on TV.

10.01.13 | 5:04 pm
Deep Into The Weeds

More on tonight’s failed partial funding votes: (1) Eric Cantor said after the vote they knew the bills would fail; (2) some Dems think today’s move was a stall tactic; (3) House majority whip says they’ll bring the bills up for a vote again Wednesday, but under different rules where only simply majority required for passage. More here.

10.01.13 | 3:45 pm
Scratching Head …

John Boehner’s latest strategy — to push through a series of partial government funding bills — is falling apart. The first bill, to restore veterans benefits, just failed to muster a two-thirds majority needed to pass.

Whelp, all three partial spending bills failed.

Back to the drawing board for Boehner and Co. Also for Cruz, Lee and company — who were quick to encourage this strategy and claimed credit for it.

10.01.13 | 2:38 pm
Uh-Oh

Were anti-Obamacare hackers trying to pull a DDOS attack on the New York state health exchange website?