A really nasty story of some of the price one female pundit is paying for getting into the debate about guns and rape. Really a must read.
This is awesome …
My favorite picture of the weekend. Happy husband is happy. twitter.com/AnneWheaton/st…
— Anne Wheaton (@AnneWheaton) March 3, 2013
By way of context, I found this tweet when I was looking into Patrick Stewart doing this.
First of all, how am I going to keep up on the all important Pope contract?
Sometime today, Intrade posted this message on their site saying they’re immediately shutting down all operations. Read More
In bizarre turn, Karzai accuses the US and the Taliban of colluding to keep foreign troops in Afghanistan.
Thomas Perez is the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Obama Justice Department and he’s been the administration point man on Voter ID and Voter Suppression issues. Now the AP is reporting that President Obama is about to nominate him to be the next Labor Secretary.
TPM Reader SR responds to our earlier discussion of the “GOP in Disarray” meme and whether the Republican party is more dependent on ‘strong leaders’ …
The Republicans are in disarray. They aren’t in disarray for lack of a strong leader. Rather, Republicans depend upon “strong leaders” because without them, they’d have to face the source of the disarray, which is that their ideology is morally and intellectually bankrupt but they can’t fix the ideology without alienating key interest group constituencies in American politics.
It looks like Jeb Bush’s abandonment of his newfound opposition to a ‘pathway to citizenship’ is now complete. See our complete Jeb Flip Timeline here. This from his interview this morning on This Week … Read More
This is a kind of blood-curdling story I just learned about this afternoon. Zerlina Maxwell is an acquaintance who I’ve watched from a distance as she builds a media career as a progressive pundit and activist — succeeding to an amazing degree while also getting a law degree. I met her for I think only the second time in person at my birthday party last weekend. I just found out that since an appearance on Hannity on Tuesday she’s basically been under an escalating online assault filled with racist epithets and threats of rape all for stating what I think is a fairly straightforward opinion on the intersecting issues of guns and rape. Read More