An Alitalia jet reportedly had a near miss (200 feet) with a drone on approach to JFK on Monday. The FBI is investigating.
Harry Reid fails to break RandPaulibuster, tells Rand, Fine, Keep talking.
Cable news tried to report on the death of a world leader, but apparently it’s hard when there’s snow falling from the sky.
I can’t say I’m terribly surprised by any sludge from Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News and former Republican operative. But this was a pretty revealing passage from Ailes in the excerpt of the new bio which was just published in Vanity Fair … Read More
As I noted below, Rand Paul (and now a handful of his colleagues) are doing a real talking filibuster this afternoon in what is almost certainly a futile effort to block the nomination of John Brennan to serve as CIA Director. I just noticed a fellow reporter snarking on Twitter that, ‘well, Dems wanted to bring back the talking filibuster and now they’ve got it!’ Read More
TPM Reader TA was kinda impressed …
I sent a quick email as it was happening, but I was watching the Holder hearing today live and was really struck by Sen. Cruz’ questioning of Holder. He was trying to pin him down on whether it was constitutionally permissible for us to use a drone strike to kill an American citizen on U.S. soil when there was NO danger of imminent threat (as opposed to the “imminent threat to stop another 9/11” that he referred to in his letter to Paul).
A bunch of readers have asked us: What’s up with Rand Paul doing an actual filibuster this afternoon on the Senate floor? And why aren’t you guys all over it? Read More
We’ve just updated our Pope candidate cheat sheet. Check it out here.
What stands out endearingly to me is that each guy, or at least several of them, have their own tag line angle about how they’re ready to connect with the young folk. This guy reads and cites Kerouac and Cormac McCarthy. This guy listens to Amy Winehouse! And this guy writes his own tweets.
Of course, those seem better than suggesting that Jewish interests pressed the media to focus on church sex abuse scandals.
House passes continuing budget resolution 267-151, with 53 Democratic votes in favor.
Ahmadinejad: Chavez will come again with Jesus and the Hidden Imam.