In the DC suburbs, a grounded teenager who snuck out of his house to go drinking with friends came home later in the night to the wrong house, two doors down, and snuck back in, where he was shot and killed by the homeowner.
The likes of National Review and Rush Limbaugh are not buying the RNC’s autopsy report.
Rand Paul: “Immigration reform will not occur until conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.”
You may have heard the story today of a guy in one of the dorms at the University of Central Florida who shot himself and had hundreds of rounds of ammunition and explosives. It turns out he was planning a mass shooting, according to police investigators. He set off an alarm hoping to set up a turkey shoot as panicked students evacuated the building. But police seem to have arrived on the scene so quickly that “his timeline got off,” in the words of the university police chief, and he turned the gun on himself.
Theda Skocpol is one of sharpest and most interesting minds in the USA when it comes to understanding the policy underpinnings of the US welfare state. What really sets her apart, though, is combining that grasp of the formal policy issues with the politics which really drives the future or non-future of political reform in the US. She was an author we read back when I was an American History graduate student in the 90s and I was honored later to get to know her as a regular email correspondent.
In January she published this fascinating and important paper on the politics of global warming in the USA.
And now she’s agreed to join us for a Live Chat tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 PM at TPMPrime. If you’re a member, you can submit your questions here now.
Please join us. This is really a treat.
I’m excited to announce two new members of the TPM team: Hunter Walker and Zoe Schlanger. Details after the jump. Read More