An open letter from US Vets: Dear America, It’s Time To Let Women Serve In All Combat Roles. No Exceptions.

I was excited to see my friend Samhita Mukhopadhyay’s byline on an overnight ed memo. And here’s the piece, her first for TPM: Why Mindy Kaling Refuses to Talk about Race—and Why I Care So Much

A list of all the pols who’ve either fibbed about military service or told phony baloney stories about their close calls in trips to the front line – Reagan, Hillary Clinton, Joe McCarthy, Mark Kirk, Dick Blumenthal. The list is endless and here it is.

When you start a statement saying “Obviously rape is awful …” you probably need to end the statement before you go any further …

"Obviously rape is awful…" says Delegate Brian Kurcaba, R-Monongalia. "What is beautiful is the child is that could come from this."

— David Gutman (@davidlgutman) February 6, 2015

NBC News anchor Brian Williams admits that he was never really aboard a helicopter that took RPG fire in Iraq in 2003 — a story he has apparently repeated numerous times.

And in fact, Williams told a far different story about the experience as recently as 2007.

He apologized for the flub on-air on Wednesday evening.

A simple chart showing the decline in the number of uninsured Americans under Obamacare.

Last night I mentioned this Utah state legislator who says he’s not comfortable making it a crime to have sex with someone who is unconscious – especially if you’ve had sex with the unconscious person a lot before. Now he wants to make sure that legislators swear allegiance to the Utah constitution over and above the federal constitution. I expect this guy, state Rep. Brian Greene, to be in the Senate very soon.

I mentioned yesterday how the vaccine nonsense is just another sign of why Rand Paul will never make it as a serious presidential candidate. Now TPM Reader JS passed on this 2010 TPM piece about Rand warning about the 10 lane “NAFTA Superhighway” connecting Mexico to Canada which would be the end of American sovereignty. Of course the whole thing was a myth and conspiracy theory.

A quick explainer on just how vaccines became the first GOP litmus test of the 2016 presidential cycle.

You’ll see here that ‘dozens’ of Democrats are reportedly considering boycotting Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech in early March. What jumps out to me though is that Vice President Biden has not yet committed to attending.