Vice President Joe Biden swears in Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) as president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate.
Michigan Gov’s approval collapses after ‘right-to-work’ flip flop.
More on the harrowing ambush, kidnapping, and subsequent firefight that NBC’s Richard Engel and his crew endured in Syria.
Reacting to Newtown, Cerberus Capital Management announces plan to divest its ownership interest in major gun manufacturer holding company.
ICYMI over the weekend, this is by far the most interesting, thought-provoking reader email we got from in the wake of the Connecticut massacre.
It is a fact of life that there appears to be no limit to the appetite for or at least the supply of breezy contrarianism. But when it’s about kids getting shredded by in mass killings it’s even less appealing than it normally is. Which brings us to this now much-mocked article by Megan McArdle. After breezily rejecting all possible steps society can take to reduce the growing tide of mass-casualty shootings, Megan McArdle (no longer with The Atlantic, now with the DailyBeast) does have one practical idea: teach the kids to rush the gunman, mid-massacre … Read More
Birther Arizona elector tells TPM: “Yeah, some people are going to say, ‘Oh, those stupid Arizonans, there they go again.’ But, you know, I’d rather be right than popular.”
NBC News has announced that correspondent Richard Engel and his crew are safely out of Syria after being kidnapped and held since last Thursday.
Now that a budget deal is fairly close at hand, Democrats and Republicans are going to be asking themselves whether the framework President Obama and John Boehner are approaching is really the best possible outcome or whether the negotiators would be better served walking away from the talks all over again.
It’s an easier question for Republicans to answer than for Democrats, because the power balance is so out of whack. Read More