Stomachs were rumbling across cable news as TV personalities talked about their favorite foods and, yes, Chris Christie’s weight loss surgery.
Serious question: how weird/scary does the behavior at the neighbors house have to be until you call the police suspecting someone’s being held captive. From the AP …
One neighbor says a naked woman was seen crawling on her hands and knees in the backyard of the house a few years ago. Another neighbor says he heard pounding on the doors and noticed plastic bags over the windows.
Police showed up at the house both times, the neighbors say, but never went inside.
Read the rest here.
U.S. District Court House for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn currently on lockdown because of a letter with suspicious white powder and labeled ‘anthrax.’ The quarantine is apparently restricted to the first floor of the building.
It’s important to note that there has been a rash of these mailing since Boston and the ricin mailings incident. To the best of my knowledge, all have been hoaxes or at least non-toxic substances. So bear that in mind.
South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Dick Harpootlian struggles to explain his comment that Gov. Nikki Haley should go back “to wherever the hell she came from.”
With thanks to Ross Douthat for replying to my post yesterday about Medicaid and mortality, I want to take issue with the following arguments. Read More
Progressive groups boycott Facebook ads after new Zuckerberg groups comes out for the Keystone Pipeline and Arctic drilling.
Arizona’s Secretary of State is also on the payroll of the major bankrollers of the national Tea Party movement and FreedomWorks.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) seemed to be trying to fix his bleak approval numbers today when he told CNN that he was willing to reverse his vote against the Manchin-Toomey compromise that would have expanded background checks on gun purchases. The only catch, he said, was that some small changes had to be made to the measure. Read More
New Pentagon report estimates there are an average of 70 sexual assaults per day involving military personnel.