A Tulsa school told 7 year old Tiana Parker her dreadlocks were not acceptable as part of its policy that states that “hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, and other faddish styles are unacceptable.”
Around the time those fireworks were going on with sorta candidate Anthony Weiner today in New York, I went out to get a coffee and about a block and a half from our office walked into a press event for Bill de Blasio, the guy who you’d have to say at this point is the most likely person to become the next Mayor of New York. Read More
Weiner responds about confrontation with voter, says he went off on voter after he made racist comments about his wife’s being arab. Watch.
This yelling match between Anthony Weiner and a Jewish voter in an orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn got a lot of attention this afternoon. But it sounds like there may be more to the story. We’d heard – and now a video has emerged from the Weiner campaign suggests – that Weiner lost it when the voter in question started digging at Weiner for being married to an Arab. Watch the video here.
Our Hunter Walker is en route to a Weiner event in Manhattan to see if he can get his side of the story.
Cable news gets to the bottom of the most important developments in the ongoing Syria debate.
Based on your emails from the districts and our own reporting, we’re keeping this crowd-sourced list of where members of Congress appear stand on Syria. Keep the emails coming.
McCain amendment would make it US policy to “change the momentum” in Syria.
Today we have the news that Siskiyou County, CA wants to secede from the state of California and potentially join with other rural counties in Oregon to create a new 51 state. This comes on the heels of news out of Colorado in June that 10 rural counties wanted to secede from the state and create the new state of “North Colorado”. In each case, these are rural, conservative counties wanting to secede from states that are either liberal or beginning to trend in a liberal direction. Read More
The Syria use of force resolution has had a rocky morning in the Senate. The sticking point seems to be the precise language of the resolution, which is somewhat surprising since the new proposed language released last night was agreed to by the leading Democrat and Republican on the committee. Here’s the latest on what’s been happening this morning.