The University of Oklahoma football team and coaches line up wearing all black in the Everest Training Center in protest of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma on Monday, March. 9, 2015.
Vice President Biden released a blistering statement attacking Republican Senators decision to send a letter advising the Islamic Republic of Iranian to ignore US Presidential diplomacy. Text after the jump …
Lindsey Graham has a revealing answer as to why he’s never used email: “I’ve tried not to have a system where I can just say the first dumb thing that comes to my mind. I’ve always been concerned.”
The 5 GOP governor/presidential hopefuls who stand to lose the most if SCOTUS axes Obamacare in red states.
I wanted to give you a brief update on the Israeli election, which is coming up on March 17th. The poll of polls maintained by Haaretz now shows Likud and Zionist Camp/Labor tied at 23 seats. Their count tends to run behind a day or so, but there’s been a flurry of new polls. I don’t have enough of a sense of the comparative merits of the difference in pollsters to be able to sift beneath that topline number.
I want to touch on something I’ve been thinking a lot about and have alluded to a few times. Just as we’re hearing more and more about ISIS and the threat it poses, we’re actually seeing more and more evidence that it is losing ground on its own turf. Let me start with two pieces in The Washington Post in the last couple days.
First, “In campaign against terrorism, U.S. enters period of pessimism and gloom.“
“A fraternity shut down its chapter at the University of Oklahoma after a video surfaced Sunday night that allegedly showed frat members chanting a racial slur and making a reference to lynching.”
We’ve got a new featured pol on the TPM Jersey Corruption Beat today: Bob Menendez. Brian Murphy’s got the story.