Ohio state rep busted for DUI with a stripper in his car hangs up his stirrups.

I’m leaving on vacation, leaving you all in good hands with the kick-ass TPM team. Please, no one break the country while I’m gone.

Florida state Senate President Mike Haridopolos (R), considered the frontrunner to challenge Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) in 2012, unexpectedly drops out of the race.

Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) smoked the GOP in this year’s congressional baseball game:

The former college player pitched a complete game one-hitter, striking out 13, in leading Democrats to a 8-2 victory. The game is taken very seriously — probably too seriously — as these pics of senators and congressmen in full unis playing in DC’s major league park suggest.

Fox News downplays parent company’s phone-hacking scandal.

A month ago, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain lost his temper with TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro during a press availability in Minneapolis.

Evan was pressing Cain on previous statements he’d made about subjecting potential Muslim appointees in his administration to “extra precautions” to make sure they weren’t terrorists.

What special precautions? Evan asked. Read More

Google competitors unite to form new org called “FairSearch” to up the political pressure on Google for what they claim are anti-competitive practices.

The WSJ editorializes on the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal.

Les Hinton, CEO of Dow Jones & Co, has resigned over the phone hacking scandal.

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