Democratic sources tell TPM that Harry Reid may move to change the Senate filibuster rules for executive and most judicial nominations — as soon as today.
Brian Beutler on the limits of trying to refocus the health care reform story on Ted Cruz.
The white supremacist leader who was revealed live on air to be of “14 percent sub-Saharan African”, according to a DNA test, is now being targeted by with graffiti about his black heritage at the white supremacist enclave he’s trying to build in in Leith, North Dakota.
After pleading guilty to cocaine possession, Rep. Trey Radel’s big announcement tonight was that he’s taking a leave of absence from Congress and getting treatment for what he described as “this disease.”
Before he was busted with cocaine, Rep. Trey Radel used to post Facebook photos of himself partying around the world.
Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) invited a stranger to his home last month to do coke. The catch? That stranger was an undercover cop.
In light of the Kennedy assassination anniversary, Kennedy Half Century author Larry Sabato reflects on political dynasties. But America’s real political dynasty today isn’t Kennedy. “There is no real comparison: The more successful family dynasty by far, at least to this point, has the surname of Bush.”
If Rob Ford was a African-American/Canadian crackhead, boozing, episodically violent, John Mayor, how would this story be playing. From TPM Reader ND …
I’m enjoying your coverage of the Rob Ford debacle (if debacle is even the right word) up in Toronto. But as a native of Washington, D.C. whose formative years were shaped by the arrest, and subsequent reelection, of Marion Barry, I can’t help but look at the marked contrast between the two mayors through the lens of race (though, in full disclosure, I’m a white suburbanite, so make of this what you will).
Clay Shirky has some interesting thoughts on the launch failure of HealthCare.gov.