Spitzer claims campaign submitted “over 27,000 signatures” to get on NYC ballot.
Illinois Gov. suspends lawmakers’ pay until they resolve state pension shortfall.
Here’s actual video of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev yesterday at his court hearing.
How and why the CIA allowed the post-torture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the admitted mastermind of 9/11, to design a vacuum cleaner from scratch in order to keep him from going insane.
Some kids DREAM, others get hit in the face with a basketball by Brian Kilmeade.
The folks who run that mine up in Wisconsin where they brought in the paramilitaries has now come out with a video showing what at least their supporters call a “domestic terror attack” that prompted them to bring in security. Calling it that is ridiculous and I don’t think you need to bring in commandos. But I’d want some security guards too. Watch.
I think this is a big problem for people who actually care about immigration reform happening.
Group of Colorado counties want to secede and create the state of ‘North Colorado’ which would be a paradise for gun rights and oil drilling.
Mark Sanford of all people gets behind a push to defund the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Fellow historian and TPM Reader BA thinks I’m cutting conventional libertarians a bit too much slack on how deeply the ‘neo-Confederate’ stain goes in the movement. I don’t fully agree with the argument. I think there are a lot of libertarians who have the sort of philosophy I noted. But he’s right and could have said even more about how much the ‘clean’ libertarian movement for lack of a better word has courted and interwoven with these noxious folks …
While I think your forthright denunciation of neo-Confederates as racists, plain and simple, is on the mark and valuable, the sharp division you attempt to draw between such people and “philosophical” libertarians is based on little evidence. I understand the desire to see people at the Cato Institute as “philosophically consistent, [not] basically about race but … a form or what I’d call hyper-individualism. Not my cup of tea but a perfectly legitimate political movement.” Being able to have civil, political discussions with those with whom one disagrees is important. Worthy political opponents are, in general, a good thing.