3 year old accidentally shot with rifle in Louisiana after rifle was knocked over by another child.
[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 Two:
One of the most important stories of the campaign was what I call “The Voter Suppression Project”–a concerted effort to tilt the election to the Republicans. Like the Tea Party, it was not dictated from Washington but Republicans in the states knew just what to do to make sure voting rules prevented Obama from winning. Read More
Tomorrow afternoon at TPMPrime 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 tomorrow afternoon and get your questions in now.
Rumsfeld says he’s not sure whether Obama has ‘switched sides’ in the War on Terror. Watch.
Markey has 12 point lead over Gomez in Massachusetts. Currently a 10.4 point lead in the Polltracker average. See the chart. Read More
Two white male police officers were fired yesterday in Jasper, Texas, after forcefully taking down and dragging a black female who was in custody at police headquarters. The incident was caught on video.
TPM Reader MS emails about the protests in North Carolina:
I was one of the individuals arrested last night in the Raleigh legislature. (The headcount from the NAACP was 151 last time I checked.) Glad we finally got a mention on the Editors Blog! We were all charged with failure to disperse, posting signs or placards (of this one I am innocent), and second degree trespass.
Since April, the NAACP has been organizing weekly Monday evening protests in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh. They come in reaction to the GOP seizing control of the statehouse there for the first time since Reconstruction — a big win for Republicans in what was otherwise a pretty gloomy Election Day in November. Since then a conservative legislative agenda and some hardball political tactics have ignited Democratic opposition. Hence, the weekly protests. Last night, at least 140 protestors were arrested after entering the Legislative Building.
Noting that GOP donors and base voters will be tightly aligned in this fight, Matt Yglesias predicts Senate Republicans won’t confirm any of President Obama’s coming nominees to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals later this year.
Here’s my #slatepitch in response: Obama will get some, if not all, of his nominees confirmed. I’d personally put my money on one or two. Read More
So sounds like those Congressmen hooking up with Steven Seagal for their ‘fact-finding’ mission to Russia was part of his new marketing gig for the Russian arms industry.