I’m still trying to make sense of and settle my own opinions on all the news we’ve heard about NSA surveillance over the last week. But I found this blog post by David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, at a minimum, a clarifying rejoinder to a lot of the hyperbole and dystopian fantasies I’m hearing and reading about all this.
Give it a read and let me know what you think.
Michele Bachmann is retiring. But meet her possible replacement, Tom Emmer. He may actually top her on the Crazy scale.
Romney: “I wish the hurricane hadn’t happened when it did because it gave the President a chance to be presidential and to be out showing sympathy for folks.” Watch.
It’s easy to say that this makes Romney some sort of massive egotist who only sees the world through the prism of his own self-interest. I don’t think we can say that. What I do think we can say is that Romney has a deep predilection to say stupid or clueless things that was always gonna make the president thing a tough sell.
Barton Gellman talks about his Washington Post story on PRISM and his source’s expectation that s/he will ultimately be exposed: Read More
How did I miss this ad? It’s from the House race in South Dakota in 2012. I’m not sure how to describe it. You just have to watch. After the jump … Read More
Palantir Technologies, the big data mining company, says they have nothing to do with the government’s ‘PRISM’ program.
RNC Chief Reince Priebus praises crazy Virginia Lt Gov candidate as ‘dynamic’ and ‘articulate’.
I hope this will be helpful to some of you. If you are having a personal feud with your spouse or professional rival or just somebody who you’re in some weird spy v spy type feud with, I need to tell you something. If you try to frame them for sending a ricin letter to the President, you’re going to get caught. Read More
I hope this will be helpful to some of you. If you are having a personal feud with your spouse or professional rival or just somebody who you’re in some weird spy v spy type feud with, I need to tell you something. If you try to frame them for sending a ricin letter to the President, you’re going to get caught. Read More
[Jonathan Alter, author of the new book “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies”, is joining us as a guest blogger this week in the Editor’s Blog highlighting and discussing some key findings and revelations in his new book. – jmm]
DAY FIVE
It’s always tricky predicting how historians of the future will react, but my guess is that they will be surprised by how a small group of rightwing extremists were able to wield so much power in a political system where the vast majority of the public didn’t share their views. Grover Norquist and Roger Ailes are among the Obama enemies I profile. Read More