[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 Three:
A great pleasure of the book for me was getting to know the bartender who videotaped Romney making his comments about the 47 percent. I was fascinated by his motivation for his historic act. In September of 2012, TPM dug up an old TV ad from 40 years ago that had an uncanny relevance to the class-based arguments of 2012. Read More
Protestor: “I feel like [these Muslims] are attempting to intimidate people with the freedom of speech and that bothers me.”
Protestor: “I feel like [these Muslims] are attempting to intimidate people with the freedom of speech and that bothers me.”
Muslim group holds event on Muslim faith and 1st Amendment in Manchester, Tennessee. It doesn’t turn out well.
Republicans turn the outrage up to 11 after Susan Rice’s appointment.
I’d noticed in recent months that one-time action star Steven Seagal was helping members of Congress investigate the Tsarnaev brothers in Russia, chillin’ with various warlords and also some sort of Deputy for Sherif Arpaio down in Phoenix. In addition to now maybe become the pitchman for the Russian weapons industry. So I asked Hunter Walker to find out what was up and whether Seagal was losing a sense of where his movies ended and reality starts. Here’s what he came up with.
CBS News reporter finds an archival CBS News interview of her father, a Compton city councilman and trauma surgeon, shortly after he tended to the mortally wounded Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968: Read More
Opponents of ‘Obamacare’ have outspent proponents 5 to 1.
The Penn Law School Federalist Society is attacking claims that Federal Judge Edith Jones shouldn’t have said African-Americans and Hispanics are “predisposed to crime.”