Google tells TPM: We have no association with Carrier IQ! That’s the tracking software that’s been found installed on what appears to be hundreds of millions of mobile phones worldwide.
Big Iowa County Chair: “Very difficult” for Romney to win Iowa now.
Federal agents say they found evidence of marijuana and cocaine — in addition to clippers and scissors — when they raided the compound of that Amish beard chopping mob last month.
Often in politics, in life, a new configuration of facts calls out for a new meme, a new storyline to make sense of that new data. Now Mitt Romney seems to have provided just that for the raft of new polling data showing that New Gingrich of all people is now seriously competing with him for the Republican nomination.
As you’ll remember, last night Romney sat down for an unexpectedly combative interview with Fox’s Bret Baier. Baier pressed Romney considerably more than Romney seems to have expected on the ‘flip-flop’ issue — certainly more than Fox usually does with a generic or anointed Republican, and Romney clearly didn’t like it. Read More
Some of the best images the Hubble Space Telescope has captured since its launch in 1990. You gotta love this stuff.
Bachmann announces she’ll close down the US Embassy in Iran if she’s elected president.
Mike Bloomberg: “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.”
Yes, said sort of as a joke. But probably not ideal timing for that joke.
We’ve frequently noted the boom-and-bust cycle of would-be Romney slayers in the GOP primary race. And Newt is currently in his ‘Angry-Birds-like’ arc across the polling chart. But like some others, I now have my doubts whether Newt’s really going to tank like the others. Look at the data from the various primary states in this article.
Gingrich is now significantly ahead of Romney in Iowa and South Carolina. And even in New Hampshire, which has always been the lynchpin and backstop of Romney’s primary strategy, Romney appears to be moving into a genuine race with Newt. Read More
Miami’s federal prison plagued by hordes of strippers posing as ‘legal assistants’.