Heritage Action bashes Ryan-Murray plan, greasing skids for January shutdown-o-rama.
NSA surveilled World of Warcraft virtual gaming world, even going to so far as to create elves, gnomes and supermodel characters in an effort to recruit informers.
Mark Halperin: If Hilary doesn’t run, I think John Kerry’s the guy. Watch.
Kentucky man places gun on toilet paper dispenser while relieving himself in seated position. Gun goes off.
TPM Reader BW has questions about the ‘Looping L’ theory of Citibank’s bogus executive substance charge to TPM …
It has bee several decades since I worked with a large banks checking processing department, so things might have changed, but I think that :loopy L” explanation might be inaccurate.
Pickens County, SC Sheriff Rick Clark has deleted his Facebook post saying he would refuse to lower Sheriff Department flags to half staff in Nelson Mandela’s honor. He now says it’s time to “move on” and advises readers to “read about President Mandela.”
TPM is a website and a news organization. But fundamentally it’s a small business. And like any well-managed small business we keep a close eye on expenses and review all the incoming and outgoing revenue at the end of month. So it was with some surprise when I heard from our accountant last week asking me about a payment for $1984 to Julian Toynbee (not his real name, for reasons which will become clear shortly.)
Oklahoma Satanists want to put monument on state Capitol in Oklahoma.
Today at TPM Cafe’s Book Club, Diane Ravitch makes the case against the modern education reform movement, as argued in her book Reign of Error:
In the early years of the twenty-first century, a bipartisan consensus arose about educational policy in the United States. Right and left, Democrats and Republicans, the leading members of our political class and our media elite seemed to agree: Public education is broken. Our students are not learning enough. Public schools are bad and getting worse. … There is only one problem with this narrative. It is wrong.
Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg remembers working for Mandela.