Our Dylan Scott rounds up the five wildest details from the arrests of the last two successive Utah Attorneys General.
Short version: these dudes know how to party and act like drug dealers.
Michigan woman accidentally shoots herself in the face while trying to “make a point.”
Turns out Cochran won because of a surge of black voters.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy and Malcolm X, talking before a press conference. March 1964.
Two former Republican Utah attorneys general have reportedly just been arrested in a major corruption investigation. We’re adding the very rich details as we get them, including apparently the tangential involvement of “Law & Order” star Vincent D’Onofrio.
TPM Reader JC writes in with a request …
Josh, I was really taken with your pair of tweets this morning about how, as David Ben-Gurion said Jews should “Fight the White Paper as if there was no War, and fight the War as if there was no White Paper,” so should we fight Israel-haters as if there was no Israeli Right with zero interest in peace, and fight the anti-peace Right as if there were no Israel-haters.
Remember back in May when there was a minor uproar when eighth graders were given a ‘critical thinking skills’ test in which they were asked to decide and explain why the Holocaust was or was not a hoax. They were given two anodyne descriptions from the Internet and then a third from a notorious Holocaust denial site.
Well, it turns out it was a bit worse than first reported.
Rebecca Odes opines on Tom Junod and the lust (for 42 year old women) that shall not speak its name.
Rick Santelli, famously in 2009, by one measure launched the “Tea Party” with an epic rant about how big government was crushing capitalism while it was actually in the midst of saving it. Since then he’s been wrong about every economic question worth being asked. One of the CNBCers got tired of his nonsense today and this happened. Watch.