President Obama’s approval and disapproval trend line since January 1st 2010.
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Louisiana House to pass legislation to allow concealed weapons in churches and other places of worship.
A ‘conservation group’ quoted in today’s Times story about the Gulf oil spill has ties to the company, Transocean, that ran the rig that blew up.
Yesterday, on CBS, Mayor Bloomberg speculated that the failed bomb attack in Times Square might be the result of “someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the healthcare bill.”
Now the Tea Party Nation, the generally disrespected hocum group that put together the Tea Party Convention with Sarah Palin back in Nashville a few months back, has dashed off an email to members that we’ve obtained calling for an apology on behalf of Tea Partiers elsewhere. Because, I guess, if you wonder if the bomb might have been set off by a domestic crazy upset about the Health Care Reform bill, who else could that mean but the Tea Party Movement, right?
Email blast after the jump … Read More
There’s been a lot of contradictory and erroneous information flying around about just who is responsible for paying for the cleanup of the BP Gulf oil spill. Is it all on BP? Are there caps to their liability? Here’s the bottom line on how it will work and who’s going to be paying.
The latest Rasmussen poll has Charlie Crist, running now as an independent, with a narrow lead over Marco Rubio and a big lead over Democrat Kendrick Meek.
We’re used to stories of terrorists getting away in extremely close calls because key pieces of information weren’t matched together soon enough. And it now looks like the arrest of Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad was almost a very similar case. Shahzad wasn’t just trying to fly to Dubai. He had actually already boarded a plane and it was taxiing on the runway. The air traffic control tower had to call the plane back to the terminal.
It’s straight out of a movie.
See our running updates of all the latest on the bombing investigation here.
Late Update: In the news conference currently underway, authorities say that he was flagged on the plane because his ticket was bought so late.
Michael Mann, the climate scientist targeted by Virginia’s far-right Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli speaks out on the witch hunt.
Jake Tapper has now updated his post noting that that “tea bagger” was originally the chosen name of the Tea Partiers themselves. It’s also true of course that long after many Tea Partiers decided they could probably use a better name for themselves that many anti-Tea Partiers continued to use the word as a form of mockery or derision.
There’s even an intra-Tea Party debate over whether they should simply embrace the “tea bagger” label as a form of group solidarity and pride, much as other marginalized or groups that imagine they’re marginalized have embraced labels of derision in the past (Christian, Puritan, N—er, Queer, etc.) Read More