Editors’ Blog
Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Your subscription has been successful.
05.14.13 | 7:27 am
Can’t Make This Stuff Up

Cheney slams Obama on Benghazi: We were “ready to go on 9/11.” Watch.

05.14.13 | 5:22 am
Impeachment

Far-right GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz says he doesn’t want President Obama to be impeached over Benghazi but it’s “certainly a possibility.”

We’re actually putting together a list of members of Congress who in one form or another have suggested that President Obama may be or should be impeached. Can you send us examples?

05.14.13 | 4:29 am
Yep

Jon Stewart: IRS scandal gives credibility to ‘tin foil-behatted’ right wing.’ Watch.

05.14.13 | 3:37 am
Shades of Boston

In an era of mass digital photography and surveillance cameras, there’s always pictures. Look at the photographs New Orleans police are using to hunt down 19 year Akein Scott, who’s now wanted in this weekend’s Mother’s Day Parade shooting.

05.14.13 | 3:34 am
Tonight’s the Night

Minnesota Gov to sign marriage equality bill tonight.

05.14.13 | 3:19 am
Headline of the Day

Now-acting IRS chief didn’t tell Congress about targeting of right-leaning groups even after being briefed on the matter in May 2012.

05.13.13 | 2:13 pm
A Conflict of Interest?

TPM Reader SS thinks there’s some game-playing from the AP on this phone call record story …

The AP story on the Justice Department “secretly” obtaining phone records from AP strikes me as an unprofessional effort by the AP to make the Department look bad.

Read More

05.13.13 | 1:32 pm
And Then There Were 12

Minnesota Senate passes marriage equality bill, now only needs governor’s signature to become law.

05.13.13 | 12:31 pm
Whah?

The AP is reporting that “the Justice Department has secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists for The Associated Press in what AP’s top executive says is an unprecedented intrusion into newsgathering.”

It’s unclear from the article whether this was with or without a warrant.

05.13.13 | 11:31 am
Someone’s Running for Reelection

McConnell: IRS case is proof Obama Administration is silencing critics ‘Across The Board’.