The University of Chicago has kindly provided us with some additional photographs from its archives of Justice John Paul Stevens as a younger man:

Is Harry Reid really staking his reelection on the fact that Nevada ballots include a “none of the above” option?

What’s the point in hanging around the militia compound waiting to fight on Jesus’s side in the battle of Armeggedon without some crack and steroids to help pass the time?

Harry Reid’s got his work cut out for him if he plans to be in the Senate in 2011. But, my God, his probable opponent, former Nevada GOP chair Sue Lowden, looks like her ideas for reform come from the 18th rather than the 21st century. In this video, she suggests more use of ‘barter’ may be a key way to rein in health care costs.

Whether Marco Rubio or Charlie Crist win the Florida Republican senate primary, they’ll almost certainly succeed in wrecking the state’s institutional Republican party, which goes by the increasingly appropriate acronym RPOF. The latest story kicked up by the Crist/Rubio ruckus is that of a state party staffer who managed to rack up $1.3 million in Amex bills over two and a half years.

Robert Reich explains why immigration is the answer to the budgetary strains of the aging and retirement of the Baby Boom generation.

Here’s a question I’d like to hear people’s answer to. We’re hearing a lot of names tossed out as Supreme Court nominee possibilities. But here’s a question my mind keeps turning back to. How old should a Supreme Court nominee be? Not for their ability to do the job necessarily but, given the governance stakes involved, for their ability to do it well for a long period of time?

We all know that life is unpredictable. Someone in their forties can be befallen by terrible illness and someone like Justice Stevens can keep on going alert and in apparent good health on the verge of 90. But given the odds, does it make sense for the president to put someone on the Court who is already 60 or over? Scalia was 50 when he joined the court in 1986. Thomas was a mere 43. Alito was a comparative old 56.

As noted earlier, reacting to some of the excess of March, national Tea Party leaders are looking for ways to tone down the group’s image and rebrand it as a mainstream (i.e., not Crazy) albeit insurgent movement. But if that’s the plan, they may need to do something about Tea Party New York governor candidate Carl Paladino.

A bunch of his emails have just surfaced with racist appeals, porn and even some good old bestiality thrown in for good measure. One email features video of an African tribal dance, entitled “Obama Inauguration Rehearsal.”

Death threats and epithets are so yesterday.

Tea Partiers look at how to tone down the post-March image and try to go (at least a little) mainstream.

We know, as a matter of law, that Michael Steele can’t be fired. But things got so bad last week that it seemed even the laws of the political universe might not be able to save Steele.

That’s when a group of friends and close advisors, seemingly operating largely on their own, swung into action and shut down the Steele political death watch … at least for now.