As we discuss moving for politics, Portland turns out to be a pretty frequent destination. From TPM Reader GP …
I’m actually kind of surprised by this. (I suspect some of his ardent Jewish supporters are too.) George W. Bush is the keynote speaker at a Texas fundraiser for a group that works to convince Jews to accept Jesus as the Messiah in order to bring about the Second Coming.
Earlier we heard from TPM Reader JM who moved with his wife from Florida to Oregon to find a politics and culture more to their liking. Now we hear from TPM Reader JR with his story, but there’s a twist, which I get to below …
My piece from yesterday about how states are one of the few things keeping politics functional in the USA today was inspired by the Colorado secession movement, whose leader we interviewed today. But that post got into the question of how much people today are self-selecting into increasingly homogenous states.
TPM Reader JM gives us his story …
After 6 weeks of bungled rollout and a month of horrific press, public support of and opposition to Obamacare remains exactly where it was the day before rollout.
Leader of Colorado’s secessionist movement says the problem they’re fighting is the “urbanization of America.”
Just your average cell phone vid of drug addled Mayor in rage-rant threatening to murder people. The latest from Mayor Ford.
And just for if you’re keeping score at home, this does not seem to be the fabled ‘Second Rob Ford Tape.’
