Today NASA released this fantastic shot from Hubble.
Jeff Malet captured Discovery as it flew past the iconic Smithsonian “Castle.”
We have the first casualty of Mitt Romney’s post-nomination repositioning on immigration. Anti-immigration hardliner Kris Kobach dumped as campaign ‘advisor’.
From TPM Reader JM …
I’m not wired into the Arizona political establishment; I’m just an AZ resident and very interested observer, or slightly more than–in 2008 I wrote Barack Obama: The Comic Book Biography, which was featured on CNN and Fox News and just about every major newspaper in the country, and spawned legions of imitators. I’m a novelist and comic book/graphic novel author, and my blog is about half-and-half writing and politics. I live in Gabby Giffords’s district, know Gabby a little, and miss her like crazy,
Romney campaign responds to calls to condemn endorser Ted Nugent for harsh comments.
Yet another major poll out: This one has President Obama over Mitt Romney by 4 points.
We’re up to 20 U.S. Secret Service and military personnel and 20-21 prostitutes involved in the Cartagena affair. One of the Secret Service agents involved happens to be the brother of the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, himself a former agent.
Most of TPM’s DC bureau decamped to the roof this morning to watch the Space Shuttle Discovery do a series of flyovers as it made its way, piggybacked on a 747, to the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. Pretty cool pics.
Departing Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) tries to take back gift he gave to House Republicans, calling Health Care Reform a “mistake” and a “disaster.”
Stepping aside from the politics of the matter and the atmospherics of this story, to me it seems delusional to assume that the Democrats could have pulled back from the effort and come back later and gotten bits and pieces of reform. How much do you figure will get through Congress if the whole thing is struck down by the Supreme Court? You can’t choke at the gut check moments.
With the Shuttle program retired, the first-ever docking of a private spacecraft with the International Space Station is scheduled for early May.