Piers Morgan tries out assault rifles at the local range. Watch.
How sweeping was that D.C. Circuit court decision limiting the power of the recess appointment?
There have been more than 600 recess appointments since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, and nearly all of them would have been barred had this ruling been in effect at the time, according to a memo from the Congressional Research Service.
A big big brouhaha in the Virginia state assembly over whether the state will accept the hundreds of millions of new Medicaid dollars being offered by Obamacare.
This morning we start to get a better sense of how House Republicans are going to handle immigration reform, with hearings slated to get underway in the Judiciary Committee at 10:30 a.m. One name on the witness list has reformers, especially business types, concerned. Evan McMorris-Santoro reports.
Writing in from Iowa, TPM Reader BF says don’t expect a Senate candidate Steve King would flame out like Todd Akin or Richard Mourdock …
Just a few thoughts on Steve King from someone who is now represented by him in Congress due to redistricting.
Don’t underestimate Steve King. Last election King faced two challenges: redistricting removed some of conservative south-west Iowa and brought the Democratic enclave of Ames into his district, and he faced his first serious challenger (with national backing), Christie Vilsack. King rose to the occasion.
No, not because he’s eating a donut during his interview with Letterman. But because post-Sandy, not just Bruce but the whole tri-state media world love him. Watch.
“These fake conservatives need to go away before they do more damage.” Brent Bozell, today on the Rove/Law money group to shut down Tea Party Senate candidates. Read More
Essie Mae Washington Williams, the long unacknowledged biracial daughter of arch-segregationist Strom Thurmond, has died at 87.
John McCain says he won’t support a filibuster of Chuck Hagel’s nomination. Which means about as clearly as can be that this drama (farcical drama, but drama) is over.