A great piece from Reuters’ Marcus Stern on the serious financial troubles plaguing what was once Newt Gingrich’s business empire.
Facebook confirms that it has begun testing new looks for “Timelines.”
Perhaps feeling the pain of another Arizona official grabbing the birther spotlight, Sheriff Joe Arpaio dispatched a deputy and a member of his volunteer posse to the Hawaii Department of Health on Monday seeking Obama’s birth certificate.
After a series of delays, including one Saturday that occurred at the last moment before liftoff, the private, commercial Dragon spacecraft was successfully launched early this morning from Cape Canaveral.
Before you write off Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett as another one of those fringy state officials diving deep into the birther waters of Hawaii, consider this: He is one of the co-chairs of the Romney campaign in Arizona. Read More
Remember Arizona’s birther Secretary State who wants to boot President Obama from the state ballot? Here are his hilarious emails with Hawaii state officials. If nothing else, the folks in Hawaii seem not to have lost their sense of humor.
Vying for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate from Missouri, Sarah Steelman says she is “ready to punch Claire McCaskill out.”
Republicans often say that the business community feels threatened by President Obama — that he’s hostile to money, hostile to business, etc. You’ve heard this before. And much of it is campaign chatter. But not all. I don’t think we can understand the dynamics of this campaign without getting that a lot of it is actually true — not the reality necessarily (in my mind not the reality at all) but the perception of it in key parts of the financial sector like Wall Street, venture capital and the dread world of private equity. Read More
Last week we got a lot of great feedback about this article about TPM at Nieman Lab, which focused on the way we’re rethinking the site in light of the rapid growth of mobile readership. With that in mind, let me show you some data which is simply amazing to anyone who has been tracking the evolution of the Internet over the last 15 years. Read More