Mark Sanford, at primary victory celebration, with one-time mistress, now fiance Maria …
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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.
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One of the two lead federal prosecutors on the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas case that seems (and I stress ‘seems’) to be connected to those two prosecutor murders in Texas has suddenly withdrawn from the case.
If you want to know why you’ll be able to buy weed at the 7/11 within ten years, look at the chart in this article.
Ben Carson: White liberals don’t like me because they’re racist.
Matt Yglesias patiently read through the National Review’s latest prescription for a conservative alternative to the Affordable Care Act, and here’s what he found.
The core of a replacement would be a change in the tax treatment of health insurance. The tax break for coverage would be flattened and capped so that people would not get a bigger break the more comprehensive their insurance. The break would also be extended to people who do not have access to employer coverage. People would be allowed to purchase health insurance across state lines. Medicaid and Medicare would be converted into subsidies–essentially add-ons to the tax break or credit for coverage–for people to buy private coverage and pay for out-of-pocket health expenses.
Matt also did the yeoman’s work of explaining for the umpteenth time why these ideas won’t work. But what I’m interested in is how persistent this particular conservative fixation is. Read More
Connecticut priest allegedly making more than $300k as a meth dealer.