Pakistan rounding up informants who provided the US with information leading to the killing of bin Laden.
Republicans go Willie Horton on Steroids in new ad in CA-36 special election. Watch.
Humor can be a treacherous thing for a presidential candidate. But it really never gets more awkward than with Mitt Romney who’s got a history of joke cracking where the jokes really aren’t funny but are really just … well, kinda weird. Not offensive. Just … weird. This morning in New Hampshire he posed with a group of waitresses from a local diner and joked that one of them had grabbed his butt while they were taking the pic. Watch.
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We’ve seen some pretty bad ‘fact-checks’ on the Medicare Phase Out story. And when we saw WaPo fact-checker Glenn Kessler’s epic punk’ing by House Republicans yesterday we thought it was time to put together a good primer on the three biggest mistakes ‘fact-checkers’ make when saying the GOP Medicare Phase Out is actually pretty awesome and doesn’t phase it out at all. Definitely give this a read. Important information.
TV station demands Rep. Sean Duffy (R) take down footage his staff ‘doctored’.
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf has some bad news for President Obama and everyone who’s out of work.
Minnesota State Rep. Tom Hackbarth, the guy who got caught with a handgun at an abortion clinic last fall, has now sent a constituent an email calling unions communists and comparing them to Hitler and Castro.