Very revealing chart showing Mitt Romney losing then regaining the support of self-identified tea partiers. He’s not all the way there yet, and there’s still going to be an enthusiasm issue, but to the extent people graviate towards a winner (and tea partiers’ preferred candidates have been eliminated) Mitt is reaping the rewards.
Pentagon on those macabre photos published by the LA Times: “Anyone found responsible for this inhuman conduct will be held accountable in accordance with our military justice system.”
Jon Stewart on the Senate GOP’s filibuster of the Buffett Rule. Watch.
Let’s be honest: Most investigative reporting doesn’t get widely read because it’s dense, inaccessible and not very compelling. It lands with a thud and isn’t heard from again. That’s why I was rooting for a couple of guys this time around for Pulitzers whose work was doggedly reported, widely read, and forced the powers that be to react. Read More
The Department of Justice has been poking around Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s operation for so long that a lot of people have given up hope that any real action will come of it (see here, for example).
But if DOJ is ever going to move against the rogue sheriff criminally, it may finally have what it needs to do so: findings by a state Supreme Court disciplinary panel that there is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Arpaio and his henchmen used their office to bring bogus criminal charges against a sitting judge as part of a political power play/vendetta.
Nick Martin lays out how the explosive findings could be DOJ’s road map to bringing down Arpaio.
How Capitol Hill Republicans decided that deficits were just fine after all.
Secret Service scandal set off because agents wanted two-for-one deal, prostitute refused.