Jill Kelley losing South Korean ‘Honorary Consul’ Status.

You’ve got a mission, Son.

I won’t lie to you. You may not come back. Probably a better chance than not you don’t.

But over behind those thickets and hedgerows, somewhere past that barbed wire, there’s a kid, a billionaire kid. And he needs to see his family again. With all his assets and annual income intact. Read More

Donald Trump, May 2011: “When it comes to racism and racists. I am the least racist person there is. And I think most people that know me would tell you that. I am the least racist. I’ve had great relationships.”

Intrade shutting down in the US.

Donald Trump says that if the GOP wants to be relevant again they have to be less harsh and stop offending minorities.

We’re getting no end of questions about the future of healthcare. And it so happens we have real answers. Or rather our senior congressional reporter Brian Beutler knows the politics and policy implications better than anyone. And he’s doing a Live Chat at TPMPrime this afternoon at 4 PM eastern to answer your questions. You can get your questions in right now by clicking here.

I wrote at length below on the tax issue and whether revenues have to come from increased tax rates or through some limits on deductions. But there’s another way to state the point: It’s not the country’s or the Democrats’ or Obama’s problem to solve the GOP’s Grover Norquist problem for them. I see everyone else thinking they need to help pledgers square this circle. They don’t. Not their problem.

The big ‘breakthrough’ of the day is the apparent willingness to put ‘revenue’ on the table in on-going tax, budget, fiscal cliff, whatever-the-new-name-is-today discussion. But only one caveat: they’re now willing to raise revenue, just not raise rates. This is silly. Read More

Over at BusinessInsider, Henry Blodget has a post up that gets to at a topic I’ve wondered a lot about — both as someone just interested in tech but also as a news publisher. In short, with so many Android devices out there, why does so little mobile traffic seem to come from them? Read More

From TPM Reader KE on reaping the whirlwind …

I am sure that many people (like me) took the insults and disrespectful behavior towards President Obama in a very personal way.

Many of us have experienced racism from “non-racists” all too frequently. As an Asian-American, the questioning of Obama’s American-ness really strikes a raw nerve.

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