The day after the horrific DC Navy Yard massacre I told you about Thomas Hoshko, CEO of the defense contractor ‘The Experts’ who hired assailant Aaron Alexis, and the gargantuan yacht he uses to wine and dine defense officials. Now we learn that just over 24 hours after the attack, Hoshko emailed Navy Secretary Ray Mabus offering his firm’s services to help get a handle on the Navy’s security problems.
You already heard about that incident in Michigan in which two men with concealed carry permits and handguns got into a road rage incident and managed to shoot each other to death when the guns came out. Well it turns out there’s a bit more to the story. Read More
US Marshals pull the plug on an auction of the loot Jesse Jackson Jr. bought for himself with his campaign money after TPM raises questions about the authenticity of certain auction items.
Like the guitar purportedly signed by Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen.
So yes, not only did Jackson ruin his career and perhaps his life by using his campaign treasury as a piggy bank. He may have been getting snookered into buying phony memorabilia. Great read. Check it out.
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) on Friday responded to a constituent opposed to drastically cutting food stamps for the young, elderly and poor by citing a Biblical quote: “If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.”
We have arrived at the moment where the flying shark eats Ted Cruz whole in his self-produced movie Defundnado.
The DefundoRama has now sucked in Lindsey Graham. Last week he told us defunding was hopeless. But the pod people just got to him.
With both wings of the House GOP now united on thinking Ted Cruz is a jerk (just for different reasons), Cruz issues new statement trying to get out of the hole he’s dug for himself.
To get a sense of where things are, the House folks just held a big presser and emblazoned on the podium was the hashtag #senatemustact, which in the context of the moment basically means, Ted, time to step. So the focus of the House GOP’s messaging on Defund Obamacare Day is basically attacking Ted Cruz.
Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) says Obamacare defunders are following in the footsteps of Rosa Parks and MLK.
A terrible tragedy for two families. But I’m not sure I’ve seen anything that better captures the trajectory of US gun policy. Men who have problems with anger management probably aren’t helped a lot by regularly carrying handguns. And only people who willfully ignore the human condition believe that arming everyone will lead to less gun violence.
Feds auction of Jesse Jackson Jr.’s loot cancelled after questions arise over authenticity of celebrity memorabilia. “”After receiving legitimate concerns about the authenticity of the guitar purportedly signed by Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen and out of an abundance of caution …” It gets better from there.