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Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), one of the most vulnerable Democrats this cycle, chooses to go all in with a robust defense of Obamacare at today’s HHS confirmation hearing.
The Rialto Unified School District has now come forward to say that the class assignment in which 8th graders were supposed to argue whether the Holocaust was real or a vast hoax to make money was “horribly inappropriate.” As David Kurtz put it, no kidding.
But I’m not buying that we have the full story.
California school board agrees that Holocaust denialism assignment was “horribly inappropriate.”
CNN’s S.E. Cupp tells Bill Nye that science guys are the new bullies.
An amusing account of frustrated House Republicans fishing for some bad Obamacare news from insurance executives who wouldn’t bite.
Pew Research is out tonight with a detailed public opinion survey of Ukraine. The results are fascinating and show the limits of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy of shaking Ukraine until it breaks, with the hopes of grabbing up the shards in the east. The main takeaways from the poll are that Ukrainians have little faith in the provisional government (solid but not overwhelming support in the west, very little support in the east) and are deeply divided over the question of the status of languages (Ukrainian and Russian). But they appear overwhelmingly opposed to any division of the country. And even in the east there is a general hostility to Russia’s interference in the country’s affairs.
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I just got an email from TPM Reader AM on the story of the Holocaust denial school assignment in Rialto, California. As he says, not only is the Holocaust one of the best documented atrocities in the entirety of human history. It is one of the best documented atrocities by the perpetrators themselves. Here’s TPM Reader AM followed by some personal reflections of my own …
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