Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R), now head of the Heritage Foundation, tells supporters of the ‘defund Obamacare’ movement that President Obama might actually sign a bill defunding the signature legislation of his presidency. Asked what the point was when it was obvious Obama would simply veto such a bill, DeMint replied: “Well, we don’t know that, do we?”
I get it. Ted Cruz believes he now needs to renounce his citizenship and allegiance to Canada. But just as having our first African-American president was an historic first and we may soon have our first female president, just think of the first this could have been: our first dual-citizen president. Read More
This is getting to be more fun than I thought it would be. Ted Cruz is a natural born American citizen blah blah blah. But because he was born in Canada he’s actually a Canadian citizen too. He’s a dual citizen. This is the same as if a couple of French expats were living in the US and had a child and then returned to France. The child would be a French citizen but also an American citizen, simply by the fact of being born on American soil and whether or not that child ever took any active steps to exercise that citizenship. Read More
Maine Gov. Paul LePage is one of the coarsest bits of flotsam washed ashore in the 2010 Tea Party wave election. He’s often found comparing IRS agents to Gestapo and jokes about sodomy as punishment. But this is something even for him. According to the Portland Press Herald, at a fundraiser last week, the Gov. told Republican supporters that President Obama “hates white people.” Read More
Maine Gov. Paul LePage is one of the coarsest bits of flotsam washed ashore in the 2010 Tea Party wave election. He’s often found comparing IRS agents to Gestapo and joking about sodomy as punishment. But this is something even for him. According to the Portland Press Herald, at a fundraiser last week, the Gov. told Republican supporters that President Obama “hates white people.” Read More
Embattled Mayor Bob Filner has seen 16 women come forward to allege various forms of sexual harassment including unwanted advances, inappropriate office behavior, face licks and headlocks. But at a Filner rally today, a letter was read from one woman who says she has known Filner for 30 years “and he never sexually harassed me.”
That makes it 16 to 1 against Filner. But momentum seems to be shifting in Filner’s direction.
I noted over the weekend that Mingo County, West Virginia probably takes the crown for having the most corrupt and crazy ass judiciary and law enforcement in the country. But now comes TPM Reader SD who says, those guys have nothing on us here in St. Clair County, Illinois. And looking at the links he sent, he may be right. Read More
A couple of really weird, troubling stories out of one county in West Virginia. First, the chief judge in the county has been arrested after what has to qualify as one of the most mind-boggling abuses of office I’ve ever heard of. Judge Michael Thornsbury had an affair with his married secretary Kim Woodruff. When she wanted to cut it off Thornsbury went on a four year crusade to frame Woodruff’s husband Robert of any number of crimes including drug possession, larceny and assault. Read More
Four year old Michigan boy dead after accidentally shooting himself in the head.