I’ve seen other publications refer to these incidents from Romney’s childhood years as ‘pranks’. I was in high school. I pulled pranks. These alleged incidents don’t strike me as remotely things I’d describe as pranks or hijinks. As reported, they come off as vicious and disturbing, even the sort of stuff that was seen as pretty unaccepted in a very, very different era. Read More
Bachmann renounces her Swiss citizenship.
In all seriousness, I find it stunning that someone could have run for president only months ago and did not disclose this or think it would be a problem.
The unsolved 1990 art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is such a good story that it deserves a great ending — and it just might be getting one.
The Romney campaign is asking old prep school friends to speak out in his defense, say he didn’t beat up gay kids, etc.
TPM Reader BK thinks Obama’s marriage move will shore up critical elite media support …
I wanted to offer a few brief thoughts on some of the potential upside of Obama’s pro gay marriage declaration, apart from any moral, polling, or fundraising calculations. Let me preface this by saying that I’m allergic to any narratives about liberal media bias and “elite” media conspiracy. That said, I think this move inevitably shores up considerable sympathy (if not exactly “support”) and regains some luster with a demographic crucial in 2008: the media, maybe particularly television.
New technology turns any surface that conducts electricity into a touch screen.
Colbert: “I believe gay people should be having hot, sweaty, depraved, anonymous man-piles in the basements of techno clubs, devoid of the slightest emotional connection, just as God intended.” Watch.
After months of failed negotiations to reach a settlement agreement, the Justice Department today finally sued Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for alleged civil rights abuses against Latinos.
Amazing look at the role of religion in the breakdown of voting choices.
Romney: “Back in high school I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended by that I apologize.”
He further said: “I certainly don’t believe that I thought the fellow was homosexual. That was the furthest thing from our minds back in the 1960s.”
Earlier Romney, through spokespeople, had said he didn’t remember the incidents.