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02.20.14 | 11:17 am
Best Practices

One moment you’re a NOLA cop doing your normal duty brutalizing a suspect with the butt of your gun. The next thing you know the gun goes off.

To be fair to the cop in question, the guy he was trying to restrain seemed pretty out of control. But still, pistol whipping.

02.20.14 | 11:15 am
First Town Hall Since BridgeGate Broke

Chris Christie is holding his first town hall since the BridgeGate scandal broke. Watch it live here.

02.20.14 | 11:12 am
Oh, This Is Perfect

An ex-staffer for Gov. Chris Christie who was subpoenaed in the BridgeGate scandal has now gotten new job at the Port Authority, which oversees the George Washington Bridge.

02.20.14 | 11:08 am
Not Everyone Got The Memo

Interesting contrast between this story about how cardinals are scaling back their sartorial splendor in deference to Pope Francis’ more ascetic approach and this one about a New Jersey archdiocese building out a fancy retirement home for its archbishop.

02.20.14 | 10:10 am
Sorry About That

Chris Christie’s top appointee to the Port Authority apologizes for the lane closures that set off the BridgeGate scandal.

02.20.14 | 10:09 am
Arizona Now, Too

Arizona takes one step closer to legalizing anti-gay discrimination as “freedom of religion.”

02.20.14 | 8:33 am
Another Gov Down the Drain?

Nowhere near McDonnell territory yet. Not even Christie. But it’s looking like Scott Walker could end up the third GOP Governor presidential candidate golden boy who goes down the tubes because of his own pre-presidential scandal.

02.19.14 | 3:05 pm
What?

Team McConnell starting to hedge on Obamacare?

02.19.14 | 2:44 pm
Cossacks!

Good Lord. When I heard that Russia was bringing in Cossacks to brutalize their underpeople and undesirables, I thought it was a metaphor. But no. Cossacks.

Not just for raping and killing Jews in the late 19th century any more …

02.19.14 | 2:18 pm
Fire, Ice or Lawn Sign Fracas?

Is this how it ends? Is this Peak GOP? 70 year old Texas GOP candidate clipped for assault after he attacked his longtime rival who was pulling up his lawn signs and replacing them with ones calling him a RINO.