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08.28.10 | 6:06 am
Watch: BeckPalooza Starts Now

You can watch Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally live here.

Watch the counter-“Reclaiming The Dream” rally marking King’s speech anniversary here.

08.27.10 | 9:13 pm
Could Be Trouble

Look at this article and note the emails that Brett Schundler shared with reporters in New Jersey after he got canned by Gov. Christie (R-NJ). Christie may have a hard time explaining his comments from earlier in the week, in the face of those emails.

08.27.10 | 3:29 pm
More On New Comments System

More details and answers to your questions on our new comments system after the jump. Read More

08.27.10 | 2:23 pm
Little Scandal Brewin’ in Jersey?

Seems like we may have a mini-political reporter jobs program breaking out in New Jersey this afternoon.

08.27.10 | 2:16 pm
Rent-A-Missile

A business that rents missiles and old military jets for publicity events seeks volunteers on craigslist to help cart two missiles it’s donating for anti-“Ground Zero Mosque” events.

Yep, hard to know where to start.

08.27.10 | 2:03 pm
Best Tweet Evah?

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Even funnier if you know that Crowley is the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, i.e., chief spokesman at the State Department.

08.27.10 | 1:31 pm
The D’Oh of Xenophobia

When whackadoo xenophobia crosses wires with cultural illiteracy the results can be, if not tragic, then at least pretty comical.

Meet Circuit Judge Elijah Williams of Florida. He’s a veteran family court judge down in Broward County Florida and he faced a primary election on Tuesday. But a few weeks ago an group of bloggers began suggesting that Williams had not been straight with voters about being a Muslim. Read More

08.27.10 | 12:20 pm
Check Out Our Revamped Comments, Login

We’re revamping two parts of Talking Points Memo today — comments and the login process. In the past few months, some of you have experienced trouble registering on TPM and logging in to comment. Most frustrating, some of you were getting kicked out of the system after having composed long comments and losing your work (it happened a couple times to ourselves). We realized bug batches weren’t going to do the trick, so we rebuilt the two systems from scratch. More about the changes after the jump. Read More

08.27.10 | 12:19 pm
Caption Contest (for the ages)

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Just posted by Sen. McCain on Twitter. Frighteningly does not appear to have been photoshopped.

08.27.10 | 11:32 am
Ouch!

It’s hard straddling the fence without getting splinters in your … britches.

So discovered Gov. Charlie Crist — the fence-straddler extraordinaire of the 2010 — this afternoon when he very clearly said in a broadcast interview he would have voted for ObamaCare had he been in the Senate. That’s completely at odds with Crist’s position on health care reform up to now, and he quickly issued a statement to clarify that he would not have voted for it.

Evan McMorris-Santoro dissects the flip-flop-flip.