You’ll want to slap yourself if you don’t watch this video. Doofus congressional candidate tells how he saw the fear in the eyes of the migrant child being bused to a nearby shelter in on-going border crisis. Then confronted with the fact that they were local kids going to the YMCA.
37% of Mississippi Republicans would back the Confederacy if there was a Civil War do-over.
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TPM Reader BF fears Israel is endangering Jews worldwide …
I need to add to the comments you posted from ES. He missed the major implication.
Let me note that I write as an assimilated Jew of French extraction. I have always had sympathy for Israel, seeing it, at the very least as a final refuge should circumstances bring anti-semitism back to the forefront in the West.
TPM Reader ES follows up on his note from last week in which he washed his hands of Israel and Zionism …
To add to the discussion on Zionism/Judaism:
There was a demonstration in Paris on Sunday, in support of the Palestinian people. People walked from Place de la Republique to the Place de la Bastille, about fifteen to twenty thousand of them. After the official end of the demonstration, a group of protestors took it upon themselves to march on a synagogue – as the place de la Bastille is at the tip of what could be loosely called Paris’ Jewish quarter.
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.