House Democratic leaders are back in DC early from the holidays trying to hammer out the contours of the health care bill. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Zack Roth reports on the woman Sir Allen Stanford used to keep the press off his trail for at least a decade.
The TSA just released the following statement on updated, permanent security measures, effective tomorrow … Read More
A knowledgeable friend tells us this is a good blog for following events in Yemen.
Wire reports say that a 28-year-old axe-wielding Somali national was shot and arrested after trying to break into the home of Danish editorial cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.
Westergard is the man who drew the famous/infamous Mohammad cartoons that caused an uproar in 2006.
Late Update: The man who was shot and arrested was apparently one of three assailants.
Remember a few days ago I wrote a few posts batting around The National Review’s Marc Thiessen for his hapless attempt to explain why “shoe bomber” Richard Reid’s case was any different from Xmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. This morning when I was at the playground with my family I noticed that Karl Rove had flagged for me on Twitter that Thiessen had responded with yet another rejoinder. Read More
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Sen. John Ensign goes on CNN to demagogue the terrorism issue and gets ambushed with a series of questions he’s never answered about his affair and the ethics investigation surrounding his and his parents efforts to cover it up with lobbying infractions and pay-offs.
Truly must-see.