Today readers have been all over this great moment when Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) took a swipe at Ted Cruz for some really silly and condescending remarks about guns. Here’s her comments about it this afternoon on CNN.
But there’s some backstory that I know many of you know about but I’m not sure everyone does — especially not some younger people. It’s also one I remember very vividly. And it’s been rattling through my head all day. Read More
A compelling piece from Benjy Sarlin on Republicans openly, candidly, and not easily grappling with immigration reform on the first day of CPAC.
Some highlights from the first day of this year’s annual conservative confab:
Matthew Keys, 26, the current deputy social media editor at Reuters, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Sacramento for allegedly conspiring with Anonymous to hack the website of the Tribune Company. (Read the indictment.) The alleged conduct occurred more than two years ago, apparently before he began working for Reuters, and not long after being fired from a Tribune Company TV station in California, where he was a web producer.
The charges are serious and so are the potential penalties, including jail time. In keeping with his role as a social media editor for a major news organizations, Keys is active on Twitter and interacts frequently with other journalists outside of Reuters. So he’s well-known, at least virtually, among social-media-savvy journalists. More soon …
Boehner tells Republicans: Guys, it’s over. Stop trying to defund Obamacare.
A Republican pal says Feinstein didn’t hit Ted Cruz where she should have …
Unfortunately, in the heat of the battle, Dianne Feinstein didn’t make the key rebuttal to Cruz’s lame questions.
Undeniably, I watch CPAC from a certain vantage point. Probably fairly different from that of the attendees. But I’ve watched it remotely and had a roll in covering it for the last five years at least. And this year has a different feel to it. Read More
Turns out that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released quite a few more immigrant detainees in anticipation of sequestration than the agency originally claimed. And while Republican claims that dangerous criminals were set loose on an unsuspecting public were probably overblown, ICE says four people who were among the most serious offenders have been put back in detention.