The Miami Herald dug up George Zimmerman’s old Myspace page that has him railing at “mexicans.”
The silliest part of the silly season is the breathless speculation about the veepstakes. We promise not be breathless.
Video lowlights of the strange phenomenon that was the Newt 2012 campaign.
Facebook has a new feature that lets you indicate in your profile if you’re a registered organ donor and will connect you to your local registry.
But here’s the cool part.
The California chapter of the registry that Facebook teamed up with reported an 800 percent increase in donor registrations yesterday.
This chart shows in striking fashion when the productivity gains of the U.S. economy split off from the growth in pay. Brian Beutler talked to various economists about why it happened. There’s no simple answer — and there’s no prospect of the systematic causes of the great decoupling being corrected in this political climate any time soon. But beneath all the noise and nonsense of this campaign season, that split between productivity and wages is a fault line between the two parties. Mitt Romney and Republicans in general don’t consider that decoupling to be a problem. Barack Obama and Democrats will acknowledge it’s a problem, although there’s considerable disagreement over whether the fixes are politically possible.
The Daily Show imagines the George W. Bush “I killed bin Laden” TV ad.
Paul Krugman talks to TPM on Obama’s re-election prospects: “We could have morning in America still. But probably not in 2012. So I don’t think there’s going to be a strong enough recovery to make it easy …”
How closely affiliated were those alleged bridge bombers in Ohio with the Occupy Cleveland movement?
There’s a lot of big money coming into Indiana’s senate race from outside the state — most of it aimed at ending Dick Lugar’s career.