Do you love carrying your concealed weapon around town, but tire of the discomfort and ridicule you receive from cramming it into your pocket?
A Texas cop and entrepreneur has solved the former — we’re less sure about the latter.
Today in Episode 2 of my new show, The Set-Up, I look at whether President Obama will lose votes for his announcement on gay marriage …
We have and will keep reviewing all the polls. But I think nothing says more about the transformation of the politics of gay marriage than the fact that the main reaction from the GOP has been to claim that President Obama is just playing politics, playing for political advantage. Read More
Are Ron Paul supporters preparing to sow chaos at the GOP’s convention?
For years, “Bobby Thompson” flew in the highest circles of political power.
Photographed alongside President George W. Bush, Karl Rove, John Boehner and other GOP power brokers, ostensibly as a representative a veterans’ charity, “Thompson” was in the game.
Just one problem. It was all a scam.
“Thompson” was arrested last month after a years-long manhunt spanning multiple states. But still, no one knows who he really is.
Eric Lach unwinds the tale.
Not surprisingly, my posts last week on citizenship have raised a storm of reader interest and controversy. Perhaps controversy isn’t the right word though since I think the vast majority of readers disagreed with me … and in not a few cases in passionate terms. Still, the exchanges I’ve been having with many of you have been fascinating and illuminating.
Let me try to group into a few broad categories the responses. Read More
You may already have seen the following memo on the gay marriage issue from President Bush’s 2004 pollster Jan van Lohuizen. I believe Josh Green was the first to publish it at Bloomberg. Others have picked it up since. It seems to have circulated pretty widely in GOP operative circles. Read More
The director of the controversial Bully tells TPM: “What I see is an opportunity for Mitt Romney to lead and really be an advocate for decreasing bullying.”
Mitt Romney tries to thread the needle with evangelicals in a commencement speech at Liberty University. Our Evan McMorris-Santoro was there.