Feds investigating Christine O’Donnell’s campaign spending for possible criminal violations.
After meeting him last month, Merle Haggard says he likes President Obama just fine, thinks he’s gotten a bad rap.
Watch for incoming, Merle.
On CNN last night, Brian Beutler discussed the GOP’s plan to use the 1996 Congressional Review Act to try to rein in Obama Administration regulations — or to at least score political points against the Democrats. It’s a good discussion of how this would work both politically and practically. Watch.
Justin Elliott talks with a contemporary of Haley Barbour who has a different take on what their hometown of Yazoo City, Miss., was like in the 1950s and 60s.
The two most surprising omissions from the FBI file of the late Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-TX): nothing about cocaine or the mujahideen.
We may never know if the whining by Rep.-elect Andy Harris (R-MD) — who opposed health care reform — that his congressional health care plan takes too long to kick in cost him a choice slot on the committee which oversees public health issues, but …
2010 was the year Islamophobia went mainstream. Rachel Slajda takes a look back at the year we capitulated to our lesser selves.
Kudos to the Dallas Morning News staffer who not only got an on-camera interview with the local pastor accused of the Christmas Eve theft of fur coats, designer purses and electronics from the home of a member of her congregation — but set up the shot with the accused pastor surrounded by fur coats. This is the wackiest video I’ve seen in a very long time.
Too bad the period for submitting Golden Dukes nominations is closed.
From Reuters:
FLASH: Suspect package found in us embassy to the Vatican – police
There have been a series of letter bombs in Rome in the past week that an Italian anarchist group has claimed responsibility for.
Late Update: Italian police are now saying this incident was a false alarm.