The Navy is confirming a shooting at the Navy Yard in DC. Latest reports are that it is an ongoing shooting. You can track developments at TPMLiveWire.
For those not familiar with DC, Washington Navy Yard is in southeast Washington, roughly a mile from the Capitol building. Navy Yard is near the relatively new Nationals Park, which is the centerpiece of the redevelopment in that area: lots of new office and apartment high rises. It is the oldest military installation in U.S. and remains an active Navy facility. It’s relatively open to the public, with the National Museum of the U.S. Navy and a decommissioned destroyer-turned-museum both housed there.
A sad, weird coda to our 9/11 commemoration discussion. After a year of exploitation by congressional Republicans, State Department staffers who wanted to commemorate the one year anniversary of the attack that killed Amb. Chris Stevens and three others in Benghazi, Libya were forced to hold their own unofficial memorial in the State Department lobby. We heard about it from a State Department staffer who worked with Stevens in Libya who was understandably disappointed that State declined to hold any memorial or even send anyone to the informal gathering. State Department spokesman Alec Gerlach pointed to the degree of politicization of the event as one reason why no official event was held.
The big news from yesterday, Larry Summers pulls his name from consideration for Fed Chair.
Things are changing. Watch the video after the jump. You’ll be glad you did. Read More
As Sahil Kapur reports, GOP now in the process of being disemboweled by anti-Obamacare monster they worked so hard to create.
After Dems float a way to bring up Sen. Vitter’s prostitution history, he flips and demands a bribery probe into Reid and Boxer. Because something.
Not his metaphorical muscle. His actual muscles. In an arm-wrestling match, “he put me down in a millisecond,” says Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), “He just – muscles were just unbelievable.”
It had to happen eventually. Today was Gretchen Carlson’s last day as a host of Fox & Friends. Check out some highlights from her curvy couch sendoff:
A good look at what the effort to sabotage Obamacare looks like down in the trenches.