A South Dakota lawmaker is calling for a statewide conversation on the dangers of anal sex and claims anti-anal sex forces have been silenced and intimidated into silence by pro-anal sex forces.
Insurance industry source tells TPM that the House GOP survey of how many Obamacare enrollees have actually paid their first premiums was “incredibly rigged.”
More on what the House GOP was up to here. And a copy of the actual survey form here.
As you know from last night, Mayor Rob Ford has now taken a leave of absence from his reelection campaign to enter rehab after two new “tapes” emerged – one audio recording of him terribly drunk saying he wanted to bed one of his mayoral opponents and a new video of him smoking crack.
In light of this week’s federal court decision overturning Wisconsin’s Voter ID law on the grounds it was a disproportionate burden on the poor. Seth D. Michaels nails the motivation behind these restrictions: “It doesn’t mean ‘only registered citizens vote.’ It means ‘only the right sort of people vote.'”
The evidence of Republicans playing fast and loose with the facts to discredit Obamacare is everywhere and has been for months. But I’m not sure there’s any one example that so neatly encapsulates the bad faith and unfair dealing as what happened last night.
Here’s a sampling of the hate tweets that Scientific American editor received after “Fox & Friends” instructed their viewers to go after him.
TPM Reader JG on Scalia …
Scalia’s “mistake” is really indicative of the broader point and more significant point: Scalia has no regard for precedent. Probably 20 years ago Scalia appeared at USC law school, and a friend of mine asked him about precedent and how he could reconcile his decision in a case with an existing precedent. Scalia laughed at the question and told the law student that he was naive to think that cases were decided by precedent. Do we need any further proof?
Black GOP candidate in Georgia says he agrees with Cliven Bundy that African-Americans may have been better off under slavery than under the slavery of the welfare state.
Fox News goes off on Scientific American editor who said yesterday he wouldn’t return to Fox after he was barred from talking about Climate Change in a segment about top science trends of the coming decades. He is a “scientific coward” according to the good folks at Fox.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) was on MSNBC this morning to talk about the national minimum wage, but one of the show’s panelists took the opportunity to turn the discussion to Oklahoma’s botched execution of an inmate earlier this week.