That bizarre story down in the Mississippi Senate primary may have just gotten dicier. The wife of that ‘blogger’ who broke into Thad Cochran’s wife’s nursing says he took it down because Chris McDaniel, Cochran’s Tea Party opponent, told him to.
That would be an unfortunate development for McDaniel since he’s stated categorically that he only found out about the incident a couple weeks later after the blogger, Kelly, got arrested.
Koch Brothers group mobilizes to strangle Detroit in fiscal bathtub in rare recorded instance of archaic and horrifying right-wing ritual.
Whether they know it or not, I think Chipotle just entered the culture wars, asking customers not to bring their guns to their stores.
Okay, Arthur Sulzberger has now given his first interview about the firing of Jill Abramson. He shouldn’t have. It didn’t go well.
The most fascinating, even mysterious, part of the Abramson firing for me is just how such a big institution, with so many good lawyers and PR people, could manage to set off such a toxic explosion within its own precincts. And after that be seemingly so unprepared for the fallout. As I noted earlier, a lot of this seems to come down to the person of Arthur Sulzberger, who is after all the owner of the paper. (Of course, it comes down to him.) And his leadership of the Times – admittedly during one of the most challenging periods in decades – has already struck me (and many others who know vastly more than me) as weak and uncertain.
But reading over all the stuff that’s been reported – and mainly by Ken Auletta in the New Yorker and Dylan Byers in Politico – I feel like I’m starting to get a progression of events that makes intuitive sense. And it’s one that brings together even seeming contradictions in the account.
We’ve had a few days to let the news settle, a lot of opinions, a lot of reporting. So what do you make of Jill Abramson’s firing and why do you think it happened? We’re discussing that now in this thread at The Hive (sub req.). Join us!
A federal judge Monday ruled that Utah must recognize the same-sex marriages conducted in the state before the Supreme Court issued a stay on the December ruling that struck down the state’s gay marriage ban. This comes a short time after another federal judge struck down Oregon’s same sex marriage ban on Monday.
I’ve been wondering about this for a while: I just noted this story about how a Connecticut teen invited Joe Biden to her prom and he replied by sending a corsage. But I’ve wondered for a while about the origins of what I’ll call the still-growing Joe Biden Legend.
Connecticut teen invites Biden to her prom; Biden replies with corsage.
Home Depot Founder and GOP fundraiser Ken Langone decides income inequality politics really is kind of like the rise of the Third Reich after all.