North Carolina lawmaker Michele Presnell is against allowing Islamic prayers to be conducted before a legislative meeting because she “doesn’t condone terrorism.”
Rove Group tells FEC to go jump in a lake with its new document request.
There were at least some signs during the day yesterday that the NRA might not go full-bore in opposing the Manchin-Toomey background checks compromise. By last night, that had all changed.
Biden: “The one thing the NRA has done so well lately is the disinformation.” Watch.
Benjy Sarlin has a fascinating look for us at the undocumented immigrant community in Washington, D.C. Give it a read.
I truly don’t know why this video makes me laugh as hysterically as it does. And I’d be kind of chagrined if I learned that anyone was decapitated in any of these incidents. But I’m fairly sure that didn’t happen so watch the video and tell me what you think … Read More
That hostage drama in Georgia is over …
An armed man who was having financial problems held four firefighters for hours in a suburban Atlanta home, demanding his cable and power be turned back on, before being shot dead when SWAT members stormed the house, authorities said Wednesday. The hostages had cuts and bruises from explosions that officers set off to distract the gunman before moving in, but they will be fine, a fire official said.
Full story here.
Club for Growth lashes out at Rep. Walden for questioning President Obama’s proposed Social Security cuts.
Just like that, Chained CPI morphs from a thing President Obama is willing to offer Republicans into a thing Republicans dismiss as a “shocking attack on seniors.”
Follow the above link for video of some amazing, but also entirely predictable, cynicism, then follow me below the fold. Read More
Senators Pat Toomey and Joe Manchin introduce their “gun sense” proposals.