Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, is suing to reclaim the copyright to her Pulitzer Prize winning novel. The son-in-law of her former agent allegedly took advantage of her declining eyesight and hearing to get her to assign the copyright to him. Lee is 87 years old.
National Review tells Grover Norquist they’re sorry for airbrushing his anti-tax mojo out of their Marco Rubio-bashing cover.
The new PPP poll out today shows Democratic Rep. Ed Markey only up 4 points on his GOP rival Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts Senate race.
Meet the man who appears to be the only novelist signing books at this weekend’s annual NRA convention in Houston. Hunter Walker talked to him. And guess what? The author thinks Obama/Cuomo/Bloomberg are this close to confiscating the nation’s guns.
With his own hashtag, Mitch McConnell is asking Republicans across the country to engage in DIY Eastwooding, photographing themselves having a drink next to an empty chair representing Barack Obama.
Despite an overnight fire at Labor Department HQ in DC, the monthly jobs numbers for April were just released: 165,000 new jobs; unemployment at 7.5 percent. Big upward revisions for February and March.
Arizona passes law making guns a protected species, thus effectively ending all gun buyback programs in the state.
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