Oh it is comin’. Top GOP pressure group puts party on notice that shutdown is the only acceptable response to an immigration executive order from President Obama.
Eric Frein is the survivalist, war-reenactor who allegedly ambushed Pennsylvania state troopers two months ago (killing one) and then led authorities on a weeks long manhunt through the Poconos. According to newly released court documents, he decided that taking out a few cops was what was needed to spark “revolution” to regain his “liberties.”
Missouri KKK distributes flyers in Ferguson threatening “lethal force” against protestors.
If you already missing the 2014 election — it’s been 10 days! — then let me officially welcome you to 2016 and the pre-emptive oppo research drop against potential future campaign staffers. Ugh.
Kansas’ budget shortfall — announced just days after tax cut-and-spend conservative Sam Brownback was re-elected — may actually be twice as bad as we thought: $546 million vs. $239 million.
Remember that New Hampshire journalist who got in all the trouble after he challenged Scott Brown’s geography in that senate debate? Well, he’s disappeared. Now at first we thought something terrible might have happened. We imagined Scott Brown, holed up in his nominal residence cabin, pondering Vermont 2016, and going all Silence of the Lambs on the guy’s ass, with James Pindell cold and alone trapped in a ten foot dirt hole and Brown screaming down from up top, “Who’s North now, James!?!?!?!” But we did get a ‘no comment’ email reply from Pindell. So it’s seems like that didn’t happen. But Tom Kludt’s got the story right here and he tries to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Be sure to take a moment to read TPM’s excerpt from THE SPHINX: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II by Nicholas Wapshott today. In this piece, Roosevelt purges his cabinet of isolationists before heading into the 1940 Democratic convention in Chicago for a dramatic nominations process.
Today is TPM’s 14th Anniversary. The site launched on November 13th, 2000, which is I guess a roundabout way of restating the first sentence. As I’ve mentioned in a few posts over the last couple months we have several big new projects we’re launching early next year. And the company, TPM Media, is in the best financial shape it’s ever been. We plan to translate that success into doing more of what we do and doing it better. All in all, a good time for TPM. And we thank you, our readers.