Amazingly, when Republicans push budgets to cut a lot of services and only have middle class people pay taxes it just doesn’t seem to catch fire.
Were Jay-Z and Beyonce legally in Cuba? Congress is on the case!
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), who is not running for re-election, says his views on gay marriage have “evolved sufficiently” to support the idea, leaving just two Democratic senators opposed to gay marriage. A third, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, is in the awkward position of being “undecided.”
We’ve almost reached a point at which it’s not news when Harry Reid threatens in frustration to revisit filibuster reform.
But his latest and most full-throated warning emphasizes an important and poorly understood fact about nature of the “nuclear option.” Read More
A new poll shows that most Americans believe current gun laws are much stricter than they actually are.
Don’t miss our TPMPrime Live Chat this afternoon with Professor Rick Hasen. If you don’t know him, he’s simply the expert on all manner of phony ‘vote fraud’ politics, voter suppression law and more. He’s the guy I go to when I’ve got a question about this stuff. Get your questions in now and join us at 6 PM.
The North Korean press ministry has just released a video of snarling attack German Shepherd attacking an effigy of the South Korean Defense Minister (if by effigy we mean a scarecrow with a xeroxed portrait taped on it). It’s so epic I think we should just agree to let them have nukes and ICBMs. Watch.
On the bright side, this arguably represents a de-escalation from earlier threats of nuclear attacks.