At traffic stop, Indiana state trooper asks motorist: Do you accept Jesus Christ as your savior?
Senate candidate says ISIL is plotting with Mexican drug cartels to attack Arkansas.
So 3,287 new Ferguson voter registrations just turned into 128.
Limbaugh proposes mass marriage of single women, via GOP dating service, as solution to gender gap.
My thoughts from last night on hearing about a college friend and rabbi who announced to his congregation that he is getting divorced because he’s gay.
With the election now a mere four weeks away, starting today we’re going to be reviewing the most noteworthy and important polls from the last 24 hours. It won’t be encyclopedic. For that, check out PollTracker. Here I’ll be looking at the key soundings that give us new insight or evidence into November’s outcome – especially the battle for the Senate, though we’ll be looking at all races. If once a day isn’t enough, remember, download PollTracker Mobile, the only mobile app that notifies you on your iPhone or Android device every time a new poll is released in a race you’re following.
For a variety of pretty good reasons, we’ve never really known the extent of the threat Barack Obama has faced as the nation’s first black president. But one of the silver linings to the Secret Service scandal of recent days may be that some of the people in a position to know are providing more details than we’ve previously had about how serious that threat has been and how it’s changed over time.
From Juliet Eilperin’s piece today in the Post, this stands out:
Yesterday afternoon Ted Cruz (R-TX) exploded with a sputtering, outraged response to the Supreme Court’s non-decision decision to allow marriage equality to go into effect in eleven more states (5 states immediately effected; 6 more effectively legalized). This came after the epic press release from the National Organization for Marriage, an historic primal scream in which the group pulled out every adjective their minds could muster in response to seeing their group’s raison d’etre slip out of the universe – “furious word salad“, as our gifted headline writers put it.
For most of us this was a decision all about dignity. But for the opponents of marriage equality it really did amount to the final indignity.
GOP operatives talk to TPM about the curious case of Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), suddenly the GOP’s most endangered incumbent, but left hanging out to dry by everyone from the NRSC (even though fellow Kansas senator Jerry Moran chairs the committee dedicated to electing Republicans to the Senate) to the Koch brothers network (even though they hail from Wichita).
The Supreme Court declined to take the appeal of an Ohio public school science teacher fired for promoting creationism.