Photos of Fidel Castro in his first public appearance since 2006.
We reported late Friday that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) very unexpectedly had drawn a very serious Republican primary opponent at the very last moment. Came in just ahead of the filing deadline. The guy’s name is Chet Traylor, and he’s a former elected Justice of the Louisiana state Supreme Court. The key, though, as David pointed out, is that Traylor is extremely wired within business-backing Republican circles in the state, as evidenced in part by the business backing he got when he first ran for the Court seat. Both implicitly and sometimes explicitly, Traylor came into the race with a big chunk of the GOP and business establishment in the state saying he was their guy. Regardless of who’s behind him, all signs point to having all the money he’ll need to contest the race. Read More
Swiss authorities have rejected the US extradition request for Roman Polanski and declared him a free man.
David Vitter may have cavorted with prostitutes and kept an abuser on his staff in charge of women’s issues, but conservative women’s groups are content to lay low rather than speak out about Vitter’s women troubles.
It seems like the more right-wing the Republican is, the more concerned they are about Obama turning white people into “slaves.”
In case you thought Democrats had overcome their inability to translate good policy into winning politics:
At the glittery Aria Casino in Las Vegas on Thursday night, Mr. Reid proudly told thousands of supporters waiting to see President Obama, “We’re going to finish that conference report!”
Despite the enthusiasm behind the words, Mr. Reid’s use of cryptic Washingtonese to describe the most far-reaching restructuring of the financial regulatory systems since the Great Depression drew no applause.
Go! Fight! Win Conference Report!
A former employee of the Florida Republican Party has gone public with her account of party officials’ free-spending ways under former chairman Jim Greer, including the conspicuous consumption of lobster, steak … and snow globe collecting.
Democrats’ best hope in the Kentucky Senate race: that Rand Paul will self-destruct.