The co-founder of the new group Republicans For Immigration Reform was, about a year ago, running a pro-Romney super PAC that was slamming Romney’s rivals for supporting amnesty. Things change. Fast. Take a look.
Obama tells Senate Dems: You gotta do something about these GOP filibusters.
A Pope has been chosen. More news as we know it.
Late Update: We’ll know who it is in a moment. For now, here’s our list of bios of the top contenders.
Unlike the 2005 conclave, there seems to be no dominant ‘frontrunner’ for Pope, among the people who follow this kind of thing. But most knowledgeable observers think this man is the most likely to be the next pope.
Here’s our cheat sheet of a number of other cardinals who are believed to be ‘papabile’, i.e., possible candidates for the papacy.
TPM Reader BT has a bracing, hard response in our on-going discussion of marijuana legalization. He’s responding to this response from TPM Reader RG. I basically agree …
Sorry, but that person’s take is completely incoherent and ignores the lessons of history. Criminalized vice is inevitably the criminalization of being poor. Because that’s where enforcement falls and that’s where changes hands most openly — not because use and abuse are uniquely prevalent there.
Criminalization of the poor and brown, in my opinion, is the single greatest problem our country faces. By far. The mechanism for that is drug prohibition.
Yesterday I posted a video of testimony from the Minnesota state House by an anti-gay marriage advocate making some comically ridiculous statements about ‘sodomy’. Here’s something very different though. It’s testimony before the same panel from a former Republican state Rep., Lynne Osterman, expressing teared up regret over voting against equality back in 2002.
It’s really pretty powerful. Watch after the jump … Read More
Paul Ryan not so sure about all this presidential outreach: “The question is, is he going to go out on the campaign trail and start campaigning against us again like he has been since the election?”