We’ve had a flurry of information come out over the last 24 hours on the murder of those two state prosecutors in Texas. Let me bring you up to date. Read More
TPM Primer: How Not To Buy A New York City Republican Party Mayoral Nomination.
There’s actually a totally legal way to do it. No need to get in trouble with the feds.
Hair-raising video emerges of Rutgers basketball coach hitting players and screaming gay slurs. Watch.
Late Update: And fired.
Later Update: Shorter Rutgers, after reviewing new information (i.e., the videos going public) we have decided to terminate Coach Rice.
We’ve heard other backbench Tea Partiers compare gay marriage to bestiality. But those folks come a dime a dozen. It takes Rep. Gohmert (R-TX) to compare a proposed limit on high capacity gun magazines to bestiality and gay marriage. Listen.
Here’s a CNN foreign/war correspondent gag reel put together at what appears to be a refugee camp in Skopje, Macedonia, seemingly in 1999, though possibly later. The video which runs some 12 minutes long includes some faces who still work for the network like Matthew Chance and Ben Wedeman, one of the bravest and best war correspondents around. The reel ranges from funny to awkward to moments in really questionable taste. Read More
Mark Sanford, at primary victory celebration, with one-time mistress, now fiance Maria …
Sanford fiancé Maria to his right twitter.com/scrnnews/statu…
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Apparent confirmation that the federal prosecutor in that Aryan Brotherhood of Texas case withdrew because of the murders of those two local prosecutors in Texas.
In an email to defense attorneys in the case sent today, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Hileman cited “security reasons” for his withdrawal. Eric Lach has more.
Conservative media watchdog questions whether African-American host is dark enough to be black.
Ummm. I think Wolf Blitzer just got the NRA’s school violence point man Asa Hutchison (fmr Congressman and DEA chief) to admit that background checks are probably a good idea.
Video coming shortly.
Transcript after the jump … Read More