2010 was the year Islamophobia went mainstream. Rachel Slajda takes a look back at the year we capitulated to our lesser selves.
We may never know if the whining by Rep.-elect Andy Harris (R-MD) — who opposed health care reform — that his congressional health care plan takes too long to kick in cost him a choice slot on the committee which oversees public health issues, but …
The two most surprising omissions from the FBI file of the late Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-TX): nothing about cocaine or the mujahideen.
Justin Elliott talks with a contemporary of Haley Barbour who has a different take on what their hometown of Yazoo City, Miss., was like in the 1950s and 60s.
On CNN last night, Brian Beutler discussed the GOP’s plan to use the 1996 Congressional Review Act to try to rein in Obama Administration regulations — or to at least score political points against the Democrats. It’s a good discussion of how this would work both politically and practically. Watch.
After meeting him last month, Merle Haggard says he likes President Obama just fine, thinks he’s gotten a bad rap.
Watch for incoming, Merle.
Feds investigating Christine O’Donnell’s campaign spending for possible criminal violations.
Fox News dusts off the death panel meme and takes it for another spin.
Let me start by saying that in my own life I’m a total Mac fanatic. I use Macs. I use their various gadgets. What’s more, TPM is actively developing not only optimized versions of the site for a series of mobile devices, we’re also getting to work on apps for iPhone and iPad. I’d said earlier that I didn’t think the people designing news app had a good sense of how to use mobile devices for news yet. But my opinion has changed about that over the last few weeks. (There are a series of new apps out there that I think point to the direction of future development of distributing news on mobile devices.)
In any case, there’s a different point I wanted to make. Because we get a lot of questions and requests about mobile devices. The companies that control the major mobile devices have a big interest in making people think that there’s a level of functionality that is possible using proprietary applications — an iPad app, an Android app, etc. that’s not available using open standards or ‘the web’. But that’s just not true. It might be true for the moment. And it might become a self-fulfilling prophecy if the big device manufacturers deepen their hold. But fundamentally it just ain’t true. Read More