The NRA tweets about kids having fun at the shooting range after 9-year-old’s fatal Uzi accident.
The Republican Party’s remarkable change of course on Obamacare has happened just slowly enough over the past few months that it hasn’t yet registered in the broader political consciousness. But it’s real and profound, as Dylan Scott reports.
A woman in Congress finally opens up about what skeezebags men in Congress can be.
Jon Stewart returned from vacation last night and got to riff on Ferguson for the first time: “Race is there, and it is a constant. You’re tired of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.” Watch.
ESPN now says it regrets that weird segment yesterday on whether Michael Sam’s teammates are showering with him.
Bill Kristol happily embracing the stereotype of the armchair bomber pilot without a clue.
Mitch McConnell doesn’t want voters thinking he’s planning to resume government shutdown brinkmanship if Republicans win the Senate. Shutdown is a loaded and unpopular word. So he’s putting it in legis-speak to give himself some deniability. But that’s exactly what he’s promising to do if becomes Senate majority leader. He told as much to Politico on his campaign bus a few days ago, and he’s been caught saying it privately a couple of months ago to a group of high-dollar GOP donors on an audio recording published today by The Nation. This kind of cynical gambit relies on the lack of sophistication of voters and a compliant press corps. Probably not a bad gamble.
You have to check out these great pics of pre-revolution American cars which, because of the U.S. embargo, still show up all over Cuba.
McDonnell confessed last week that he’s living with a priest during the corruption trial against him. But it’s now been revealed that that priest was arrested for a sex crime in 2002 — one that McDonnell himself advocated for keeping on the books as a state delegate.