Republicans are looking for Marco Rubio to break through with Hispanic voters. But as Stephen Nuno points out, Rubio is just as unpopular with Hispanic voters as most of the rest of the GOP candidates. And there’s little reason to think that’s going to change.
Dutch chimpanzee becomes hero of global left after destroying zoo drone.
The state of Idaho is risking $46 million in federal funding in its battle to prevent the imposition of Sharia Law in the state.
As long as his incipient presidential campaign has collapsed, it probably comes easier for Chris Christie to propose major cuts to Social Security. But it’s notable that his approach is quite different from what President Bush proposed in 2005.
TPM Reader JC brings us his experience on the battlefield of cake morality and reminds us of a key point. While anti-gay activists have done a decent job coopting the language of ‘religious liberty’ as a synonym for prejudice against gay people, Americans – even in fairly conservative states – overwhelmingly oppose laws which give the sanction of law this kind of bigotry.
Thank you for your recent post on the cake/flowers silliness. My major question here that no one in the media seems to ask these folks is–does giving someone a generic cake or flowers mean you endorse what they use the cake and flowers for? Generally a vendor sends all their cakes out without asking or worrying about the recipients daily morality.
What makes a gay couple’s morality so important to the cake maker’s trade that they now must say No? Why is the supposed “sin” of being gay or getting married as gay citizens suddenly consequential to the the cakes moral mission? Or why does the gay factor even give the cake a moral mission?
I suspect Rubio’s cave on immigration reform will eventually be his undoing – perhaps not because he bucked the base of his party but because he bucked them and then crumbled like an old house as soon as the going got tough.
Indiana hires international PR firm to repair state’s image after ‘religious liberty’ law debacle.
Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias are arguing about the significance of the relative approval ratings of Hillary Clinton and her potential Republican opponents and also about who’s stealing each others infographics.
Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein on Wednesday at 1 p.m. Eastern will join The Hive (sub req) to answer your questions about national security, including how Congress should reform NSA surveillance.
Goitein co-directs the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program. Before coming to the Brennan Center, Liza served as counsel to U.S. Senator Russell Feingold, Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. As counsel to Sen. Feingold, Liza handled a variety of liberty and national security matters, with a particular focus on government secrecy and privacy rights.
Her writing has been featured in major newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as prominent outlets such as Roll Call, the National Law Journal, and the Huffington Post.
Feel free to drop in your questions at or before 1 p.m. on 4/15. This chat will be moderated by TPM.
I mentioned before the crazy decision to allow a 73 year old “volunteer” member of the sheriff’s department to be involved in a suspect apprehension in which he accidentally shot and killed a man fleeing arrest when he thought he was using his taser. Here’s everything we know so far about the law enforcement killing of Eric Harris.