Among new documents from the bin Laden compound released today, OBL lamented decline of al Qaida rep, musing on possible rebranding, only wanted to target Obama and Petraeus for assassination.
From this we can draw the conclusion that the culture of branding and marketing is truly global.
Behind the scenes photos from President Obama’s unannounced trip to Afghanistan.
Missouri’s “don’t say gay in public schools” bill prompts Republican legislator to come out of the closet to oppose the bill. (That makes him the only openly gay Republican state legislator in the country, according to one advocacy group, which, wow, really?)
Paul Krugman on Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI): “All he does is make scary noises about the deficit, with mood music, with organ music in the background about how ominous it is, and then propose a plan that would in fact increase the deficit.”
The McCain camp was forced to fight off an insurrection on the 2008 convention floor from delegates supporting Ron Paul in what was at the time a very underreported story. It looks like the Paulites are burrowing themselves in deeply this time around, too, controlling more delegates than he “deserves” by taking advantage of the byzantine delegate-nominating process.
It’s shaping up as a big headache for Mitt Romney in Tampa. “Broadly speaking, I don’t think anyone has a firm handle on how deep this goes,” one expert on the process told us. Benjy Sarlin and Pema Levyreport.
TPM’s Nick Martin has been writing off and on for years about J.T. Ready, the white supremacist border vigilante who allegedly took his own life Wednesday after a shooting rampage in a suburban home outside of Phoenix that left four others dead. Here’s Nick’s report.
To the victor goes the spoils, but what exactly did Obama do to get bin Laden? The answer, it will not surprise you to know, is more complex than the current political debate will allow, but it also involves more than giving the greenlight to the final raid. Our report.
The day teetered on the edge of crazy until finally falling over the edge. Watch.