Wife of Democratic congressman from Massachusetts gets 30 days in jail for aiding in the filing of false tax returns for her brother, an online gaming operator in Antigua who is wanted in the U.S. on charges of money laundering and illegal gambling.
Jon Stewart rips Fox News’ coverage of the Tucson memorial service. Watch.
Tennessee tea partiers lay out their demands to state legislators about what should and should not be taught in public schools, including:
“No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.”
For Tennessee, does that mean sanitizing Andrew Jackson’s role in the Seminole Wars? Or maybe it just means we have to go back to referring to Shiloh as a tragic loss for the Confederacy at the hands of that devil Grant.
With Michael Steele looking likely to lose his job today as the RNC elects its next chairman, we look back at Steele’s glorious gaffetastic two years as King of the RNC.
Sarah Palin does her first post-Tucson interview Monday with … Sean Hannity.
The “Nazi jihadist” arrested for biting two FBI agents is now alleging through his lawyer in court filings that one of those agents had a romantic relationship with his mother — a charge the FBI categorically denies.
Clear Channel to TPM: “Clear Channel Outdoor management in Tucson quickly elected to take down this ad – believing that discussion of its interpretation would not contribute to the desire for healing in the Tucson community.”
Will a US solar power industry be built on military demand?
Over the last few months, we’ve brought you news that prominent social conservative Bryan Fischer has blamed gays for the Wikileaks disclosure, told readers that Obama wants to give America back to the Indians, declared that bears are a threat to our Judeo-Christian culture, declared that no new mosques should be built anywhere in America and insisted that Hitler preferred using gay soldiers since they had “no limits.”
And just yesterday, former Gov. Tim Pawlenty (doing everything he can to get right with the right) went on Fischer’s radio show to declare that he’d push to reinstate DADT if he were elected president.
Late Update: Want to know more about Tim Pawlenty? See our new Pawlenty slide show, the first in a series on the probable 2012 presidential candidates.