As we learn of the death of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI), president pro tempore of the Senate and the second-longest serving senator in American history, take a moment to read his Medal of Honor citation: Read More

Setting aside arguments about the policy substance underlying the fiscal cliff negotiations (and there’s obviously plenty to argue about), what puzzles me most is the idea that President Obama might shake hands on a deal that raises the debt limit enough to put off another big fight with House Republicans for about a year. Read More

Reid Wilson reports for National Journal on the concerted Republican effort to eliminate the Electoral College’s winner-take-all format in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin: Read More

Three Arizona electors, including the state Republican Party chair, reportedly questioned Obama’s birth certificate as they cast their votes in the Electoral College today for Mitt Romney.

The common thread between Aurora and Newtown is .. the LIBOR scandal?

Hill Dems warming to longterm Social Security benefit cuts.

Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan is joining us in the Prime Blog at 4pm eastern today to answer your questions on the Middle East: where the Arab Spring is going, the Egyptian constitution, the fall out of Gaza, and the real Libya.

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I had not anticipated the obvious fact that Newtown children will be attending funerals for their slain classmates.

TPM Reader MB responds to my piece on the guns and freedom unicorn … Read More

Greg Sargent: “The demographic shifts that Obama and the Democratic Party appear to be profiting from may also mean Dems no longer need to tip-toe around the “God, guns, and gays” cultural issues (with God excepted, of course) that inflame the voters they are less and less reliant upon.”