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05.11.12 | 12:34 pm
JP Morgan Mess Enters Prez Campaign

The Obama camp takes it first shot at Mitt Romney since the JP Morgan debacle over his opposition to financial reform.

05.11.12 | 10:05 am
The Schlump-In-Chief

When you’re the President, you get to have Sofia Vergara come by the office on a Saturday. But, dude … is that a track suit?

05.11.12 | 9:12 am
Citizenship Matters

I got in a bit of an argument on Twitter earlier this week about my belief in the importance of unitary citizenship — or to put it another way, thinking dual citizenship is really not okay. Read More

05.11.12 | 8:58 am
Finding Signals In The Noise

Researchers hunting for the elusive Higgs Boson particle are going to have to wade through an unprecedented volume of particle collision data now that the Large Hadron Collider powered up to a higher level.

05.11.12 | 8:46 am
Great Moments In Geraldo History

Geraldo on Fox and Friends this morning: “The last time I flew to Afghanistan, I got manually raped by a guy.”

Video after the jump. Read More

05.11.12 | 7:58 am
No ‘Counterculture’ Hair At Liberty U.

Mitt Romney makes the required pilgrimage Saturday to the late Rev. Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, where “Hair and clothing styles related to a counterculture (as determined by the Student Affairs Deans’ Review Committee) are not acceptable.”

05.11.12 | 6:34 am
Backed Into a Paradox?

Is Mitt’s lack of any political core or center, paradoxically, making it hard to tack to the center post-primaries?

05.11.12 | 5:52 am
Question of the Day

I think virtually anything can be written off from a politician’s high school days, as long as there’s some reckoning with it. What surprised me most about yesterday’s revelations was that the Romney campaign did not choose to address this on its own terms. Read More

05.11.12 | 5:43 am
The Dog That Didn’t Bark

I started to do a post yesterday on how muted the right wing response has been to President Obama’s same sex marriage shift. Back in the day, the House conference would have held a candlelight vigil for traditional marriage on the Capitol steps, protests would have been organized, right wing groups would have leaped at the fundraising opportunity, and the entire wingnut Wurlitzer would have been cranked up to maximum volume. It’s a sign of how far we come that not even Fox News could rouse itself to make a big deal about it, as Jon Stewart brilliantly points out. Watch.