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.
No one is more alarmed about the federal government’s conspiracy to buy up all the nation’s bullets than Stephen Colbert.
Illinois GOP Chair Pat Brady created a furor earlier this year when he came out in support for gay marriage. And there was a serious effort to remove him from office – one that seemed to have failed. Not the Chicago Tribune is reporting that Brady plans to resign tomorrow.