AP: “After years of trying to discipline him, the leaders of al-Qaida’s North African branch sent one final letter to their most difficult employee. In page after scathing page, they described how he didn’t answer his phone when they called, failed to turn in his expense reports, ignored meetings and refused time and again to carry out orders. Most of all, they claimed he had failed to carry out a single spectacular operation, despite the resources at his disposal.” Read the rest here.
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Bob Dole’s comments this weekend kicked off a panic among Republicans on cable news.
As I noted in my original post on this, we shouldn’t ignore that many of us have benefited from the willful amnesia about what the Civil War was and was about. Many of us. Not all of us. From TPM Reader DR …
As a lifelong Black person raised in Georgia, I can tell you the views of TPM Reader JL are all classic Southern appeasement.
We change the names of streets when the men (mostly men) they are named for can no longer be justified or reconciled with our values.
Video emerges of controversial Obama/Christie football throwing stuffed bear ‘winning’ incident. Watch.
Back on the Mayor Ford/Crack story, first, I made a mistake. In my earlier post I said that ex-Chief of Staff Mark Towhey resigned. That’s not correct. He was fired. When I was writing this morning I’d misremembered and thought there was some uncertainty about whether he resigned or was fired. But he was definitely fired. Actually, he was apparently fired twice and escorted out of the Mayor’s office. Now, part of me wants to say it’s hard keeping track of the murder and crack smoking and hash dealing and resignations and firings. But no excuses. I got that part wrong.
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President Obama looks less than entirely stoked with this stuffed bear he won on the New Jersey boardwalk.
TPM Reader JL takes another view on the Civil War and national reconciliation …
I’m a lifelong Democrat and though I was raised in Mississippi go back two generations and all my people are in Ohio or New York. My uncle worked for RFK and I’ve received awards from state and national organizations recognizing my “progressive” activism.
As I flagged over the weekend, the Mayor Ford/crack cocaine saga has now graduated up to potential connection to an unsolved murder in Toronto. Over the weekend, the Globe and Mail reported that a member of Ford’s senior staff had reached out to the Toronto police after getting a tip from another member of the staff about the location of the video and the suggestion that a young Toronto man had been murdered over the tape. Now we have a few more details. Read More
Two Congressmen propose adding a right to vote into the US constitution.