First of all, how am I going to keep up on the all important Pope contract?
Sometime today, Intrade posted this message on their site saying they’re immediately shutting down all operations. Read More
In bizarre turn, Karzai accuses the US and the Taliban of colluding to keep foreign troops in Afghanistan.
Thomas Perez is the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Obama Justice Department and he’s been the administration point man on Voter ID and Voter Suppression issues. Now the AP is reporting that President Obama is about to nominate him to be the next Labor Secretary.
TPM Reader SR responds to our earlier discussion of the “GOP in Disarray” meme and whether the Republican party is more dependent on ‘strong leaders’ …
The Republicans are in disarray. They aren’t in disarray for lack of a strong leader. Rather, Republicans depend upon “strong leaders” because without them, they’d have to face the source of the disarray, which is that their ideology is morally and intellectually bankrupt but they can’t fix the ideology without alienating key interest group constituencies in American politics.
