The most troubling thing about the rash of attacks, threats and vandalism directed toward Democrats is the fact that the Democrats are willing to speak about it publicly.
An FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force has conducted a series of raids on a Christian militia group called ‘Hutaree’. Seven have been arrested so far and will appear in U.S. District Court in Detroit tomorrow.
More Fun Where That Came From Update: Gawker digs up the Hutaree militia’s page on MySpace.
As I’ve mentioned at various times, I’m an iPhone user. And before that, I was an iPod user. (I’ve now consolidated into a iPhone-only lifestyle.) So even though I wasn’t a super early adopter, I did (and do) have one of those early all-white, physical scroll wheel, boxy archeo-Pods that probably many of you had at one point or another.
The White House has just announced that President Obama has made fifteen recess appointments, including several for hot-button nominees. These are appointees Republicans refused to allow votes on and for which the president’s supporters have been pressing for recess appointees.
Notable on the list are Craig Becker to NLRB and Chai Feldblum to EEOC.
In arguing for the appointments the press release states: “President Bush had made 15 recess appointments by this point in his presidency, but he was not facing the same level of obstruction. At this time in 2002, President Bush had only 5 nominees pending on the floor. By contrast, President Obama has 77 nominees currently pending on the floor, 58 of whom have been waiting for over two weeks and 44 of those have been waiting more than a month.”
Full press release after the jump. Read More
Eric Cantor’s latest defense: I didn’t know that the police had concluded the bullet in my (sometimes) office was randomly fired until after my press conference in which I said my office had been targeted.
You know it’s bad when your fallback defense is reckless disregard for the truth.
At a Texas fundraiser today, Joe Biden rhapsodized about the swimming hole of his youth and giving the American people light. Really, it makes sense in context.
With today’s announcement of a new nuclear arms treaty between Moscow and Washington, we look back at Hillary Clinton’s just completed trip to Russia where the final groundwork was laid for the agreement:
Still trying to emulate one of the iconic moments of a decade they mostly despise, tea partiers under the banner of the Republican-consultant-created Tea Party Express will gather in Harry Reid’s hometown this weekend for what they’re dubbing a “Conservative Woodstock.”
Kirsten Gillibrand seemed like one of the weaker incumbent senators going into the 2010 election cycle. She was appointed to the job by the now-disgraced Gov. Paterson. She’d only served little more than a single term in Congress when she was appointed. And she had some issue positions that worked for her upstate district but didn’t necessarily fit that well for running statewide in New York. But somehow over recent months numerous Republicans and Democrats have sounded out a run against her, only to decide against it — Ford, Zuckerman, Giuliani, McCarthy, Maloney, the list goes on and on. Is she an unstoppable force in politics? Evan McMorris-Santoro has the story.