Lawsuit dropped against Bassem Youssef, sometimes known as ‘Egypt’s Jon Stewart.
Stewart’s defense of Youssef triggered an international incident when the US Embassy in Egypt tweeted Stewart’s comments, was rebuked by the office of the Egyptian President and then had to pull down their entire Twitter feed.
TPM Reader DW on the need for a grand bargain …
I agree with Obama that a big fiscal taxes and spending deal that puts in place an actual budget blue print for 10 years is critically important. The amount of cash sitting on corporate balance sheets is staggering (and unprecedented), and the uncertainty in Federal budgeting as we jump from crisis to crisis is strangling the economy of life. It’s said so often now, its become a cliché, but the economy needs the kind of certainly that only a long term blue print of taxes and spending can provide. Corporations need to know where to put their money and, just as importantly, where not too. They can’t know this until such a blue-print is in place.
Remembering the assassination of Martin Luther King, 45 years ago this week.
NASA is planning to lasso an asteroid and bring it close to Earth for astronauts to explore.
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — The EU’s foreign policy chief says that nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers have failed to reach an agreement.
Catherine Ashton said Saturday that the talks revealed that “the two sides remain far apart on substance.”
RFK chartered the plane bringing MLK’s remains back to Atlanta–here he & Ethel console Mrs. King in her bedroom: twitter.com/BeschlossDC/st…
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 6, 2013
Arizona lawmakers invited to start wearing bullet proof vests on the job.
Immigration reform advocates tell Rubio to get with the program or risk a backlash.
Texas A&M Student Body President vetoes bill aimed at defunding the campus’ LGBT student center.
From a discussion thread just started in TPMPrime …
Based on the coverage so far, it appears the right and honorable progressive movement is treating Pres. Obama’s willingness to offer entitlement cuts as another example of him negotiating with himself and undermining the progressive position. Here’s why I disagree.
Read the rest here. Curious to hear people’s take.