It shouldn’t require number crunchers to tell us this. But the CBO has provided a report to the debt ‘super committee’ that restoring full employment in itself would solve roughly 1/3 of our deficit problem.
Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has taken a mostly contrite path to redemption since being released from prison, but if the marketing materials for his new memoir — being published by the ultra-right-wing (unhinged even) World Net Daily — are any indication, he’s about to veer off into the purgatory of revisionism.
The President will hold a press conference at the White House at 11 a.m. ET.
Our tech reporter Carl Franzen was on a train between DC and New York when word came of Steve Jobs death last night. When he arrived in New York, he headed straight to the iconic Apple Store on Fifth Avenue and filed this report well after midnight last night.
Palin tells Greta: I didn’t want my announcement to be all showboaty like that Christie guy.
A compilation of speeches by, interviews with and articles about Steve Jobs, who died today at the age of 56.
The news just came through AP’s Twitter feed.
Apple has announced Jobs’ death on its site.
Ongoing updates at TPM Live Wire and continuing coverage at TPM Idea Lab.
I’m gonna write a bit more about this this evening. But as David mentioned, when we looked back at going on 5 years of TPMtv, 7 of the 10 most popular videos we’ve ever put together were about Sarah Palin. And well … it’s not a surprise because some of them were simply awesome. Take a few moments and take a stroll with us down Crazy lane with the woman who gave us so many memories and so many page views. Vid bonanza after the jump … Read More
It’s a random, non-scientific measure of the Sarah Palin phenomenon, but just yesterday I was looking through the list of TPM’s most-viewed YouTube videos of all time — and Palin totally dominates the list. Sort by “most viewed” at the top right of the pane here.