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It wasn’t long ago that Kansas Governor Sam Brownback apologized for his office having gotten a high schooler in hot water over her less-than-flattering tweet.
Now it turns out Brownback’s sensitivity to criticism extends across the social media landscape.
Ed Rendell isn’t the only one the Treasury Department is investigating over payments made on behalf of the MEK.
Look, we think Apple makes cool products too.
They just don’t excite us quite this much.
It blew me away to discover this week that Americans used public transportation in the 1940s at levels more than twice as high as today. Those are absolute numbers, not per capita. When you consider that the U.S. population then was less than half of what it is now, it makes the numbers even more striking. We’ve plotted out the data here, and I’ve been geeking out over it. Read More
Can any state Republican party run a caucus successfully? The 2012 scorecard so far suggests not.
Romney jumps on another of Rick Santorum’s self-inflicted wounds: No, we’re not going to make Puerto Ricans stop speaking Spanish.
Striking images of Syria on the anniversary of the beginning of the unrest.
Here are the facts. Leader of state legislature has affair with staffer. Affair is found out. Staffer is canned. Now staffer is suing.
Add two more facts. Staffer is threatening to reveal identities of all other legislators and staffers who are having affairs and haven’t been fired. And the staffer’s a man and the leader is a woman.
Here’s the story.