For the first time since the Fukushima nuclear accident, journalists were allowed back into plant to take photographs of the crippled plant and the on-going clean up effort. Take a look.
Is Newt more than just another non-Mitt prepping for a sub-orbital flight against the frontrunner? TPM Reader EA says yes.
It strikes me that Newt’s rise in the polls is, to borrow a Newtism, fundamentally, unlike those experienced at other times during this Presidential nomination process. Newt Gingrich is decidedly not like Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain. Sure, he’s got these enormous flaws in his personal life that may very well render him just as or nearly as unelectable as some of these other GOP trend candidates, but I would argue that Newt is the only candidate positioned to mount any kind of challenge to Mitt Romney.
SNL revisits Rick Perry’s now-legendary moment of debate awesome.
A poll will come out later today that shows Newt Gingrich now in the lead nationwide in the GOP primary race.
A new poll says that a majority of Americans now support the individual mandate, the central component of the President’s health care reform law.
Wisconsin Dems kick off their effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R) today.
Supreme Court announces it will take up the health care reform law. Decision expected next summer.
The Justice Department was pushing for Supreme Court to take up the case. The White House wanted a decision during the summer of 2012 so the impact of the decision, either way, settles out before Election Day.
Late Update: A quick and handy summary by Adam Liptak of which questions the Supreme Court agreed to take up.
An anti-‘vote fraud’ Tea Party group, with a spin off group organizing poll watches nationwide next year, is hosting a Texas event for Matthew Vadum, the guy who doesn’t think poor people should be voting at all, at least it should be made as hard as possible. It’s a bold move since most anti-‘vote fraud’ outfits go with the pretense that their aim is simply to make sure there’s no fraudulent voting. But Vadum’s appearance makes clear that both sides of the ‘vote fraud’ story seem to know what the score is.
Today is TPM’s 11th anniversary online.
(You can see the first page of posts here and the very first post here — of course, updated into the new format.) How long have you been reading TPM? Let us know about your best memories or favorite posts over the years.
For myself, as I wrote on our 10th anniversary last year, simply, thank you. You — especially our most dedicated readers — have made it possible for us to build this organization over more than a decade, with much more to come.