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ICYMI: For all the talk about partisan antagonism and fisticuffs, we’ve actually in the midst of a Long Truce in our national politics.
After the Bundy militia confrontation earlier this year the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) started removing identification from their vehicles because of rising climate of incitement against the agency on the radical right. Now another far-right anti-government radical has shot a BLM agent in California. Dylan Scott has the story.
This is Ted Cruz’s top speech writer and communications advisor. Because one unarmed man can break out of or take over a US Navy warship, no problem …
We’re likely keeping Benghazi terrorist on a ship instead of GTMO, a secure facility that’s made for this http://t.co/WRzD2CaXYR
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) June 17, 2014
It may sound funny to describe our current political moment as a truce. But I’m beginning to think that is the best way to describe it. Not a partisan detente, mind you. Far from it. The bitterness and acrimony and crazy are as high and likely higher than ever.
But if you look closely, a truce it is.
As part of his new fundraising drive, former Rep. Ron Paul (R) is giving away a “brand new Colt LE6920MP-B AR-15 equipped with a red dot sight” to one lucky winner in honor of the 2nd Amendment.
Felon Dinesh D’Souza on President Obama: “It’s not that Obama hates America. It’s not that he’s trying to take America down.” Watch.
After Dr. Jen Gunter took George Will to task for his column calling sexual assault victims a “coveted status,” today she dismantles his response quibbling with the official rape statistics.
We’re hiring an Associate Editor to head up the expansion of TPM LiveWire. See our listing here.
A Heritage Foundation panel event on Benghazi (seemingly about as big a clown show as you could imagine) broke down into taunts and name-calling at Muslim woman in attendance. We join Dana Milbank’s report in progress …
Then Saba Ahmed, an American University law student, stood in the back of the room and asked a question in a soft voice. “We portray Islam and all Muslims as bad, but there’s 1.8 billion followers of Islam,” she told them. “We have 8 million-plus Muslim Americans in this country and I don’t see them represented here.”
Panelist Brigitte Gabriel of a group called ACT! for America pounced. She said “180 million to 300 million” Muslims are “dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization.” She told Ahmed that the “peaceful majority were irrelevant” in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and she drew a Hitler comparison: “Most Germans were peaceful, yet the Nazis drove the agenda and as a result, 60 million died.”