Vet GOP Rep says, in so many words, that immigration reform is going to die in the House.
13 year old Texas girl dies on her birthday when brother accidentally shoots her in the stomach while cleaning his gun.
This afternoon at TPMPrime at 5:30 PM we’re going to be doing a live chat with Joe Muto, the author of An Atheist In the Foxhole. You may know him better as the Fox “mole” who wrote on Gawker a while back about the inside world of Fox and then got found out really quick, canned and then … well, now he’s written a book. Join us at him at 5:30 and get your questions in now.
Federal Appeals Judge tells UPenn students African-Americans and Hispanics are “pre-disposed to crime.”
Let me start by saying that heckling is part of democracy. So is getting tossed out of the venue by security. Heckling is frequently offensive; especially if you support the person being heckled. But it’s healthy in a democracy that we don’t have too much deference to our leaders and that, other than the bum’s rush out of the place, there’s no punishment for acting out at leaders in non-physically threatening ways. All that said, I thought Michelle Obama came off as a badass in confronting her heckler last night at that private fundraiser. And the heckler, Heather Cronk Ellen Sturtz, is like the David Broder of hecklers. She heckles the First Lady and then when the First Lady comes back at her she starts lamenting the decline of civility! This is all what makes democracy great.
10 year old boy dies of gunshot wound after he and 9 year old girl were playing with loaded handgun.
John Cook, Gawker reporter and the guy who lit the fuse that exploded into the epic Mayor Rob Ford Crack scandal, has a new post saying the video is now probably “gone.” What does that mean? And is there any hope for Canada’s hopes of entering the scandal big leagues? Read More
It’s a day I’m not sure I’d ever thought I’d see. The man who was the co-inspirer TPMmuckraker, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, is a free man.
Continuing the conversation about military bases named after generals who betrayed their country with TPM Reader EL …
Amplifying reader CH’s thoughts, I would encourage proponents of tackling the enshrinement of Confederate generals as the namesakes for US Army bases to consider carefully about what battles we want to pick.
You point out quite rightly that the recasting of the war as a “useful past” which set actual treason aside in favor of a shared memory of martial honor was–along with common embrace of white supremancy–an essential component of the post-Reconstruction sectional rapproachment.