Robert Reich on what the president could be saying in those backyard discussions.
Barton Gellman’s Time piece on right-wing militias is chocked full of great reporting. One item of reportage really jumps out: the Holocaust Museum shooter, James von Brunn, had plans to target presidential adviser David Axelrod.
In a shocking development, it turns that Christine O’Donnell’s pro-abstinence nonprofit SALT (Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth) is on a IRS list of deadbeat orgs that haven’t filed tax returns in at least three years.
Yesterday we learned — or she claimed — that an impostor had, years ago, plotted to build a phony Linkedin profile for her which included all correct information, albeit with seriously padded educational info, friended people she knows and vice versa, all to damage her during this political campaign.
Now the same impostor has apparently struck again on zoominfo.com. And this time the impostor was able to get O’Donnell herself to ‘claim’ and confirm the same padded educational info, in some sort of plan — equal parts nefarious and ingenious — to implicate her in serial bamboozling. And by ‘padded’, I mean in the sense of saying you went to school at places you didn’t.
Tea Party Senate candidate Joe Miller visits DC to measure the drapes for his new office — literally. You’ll want to see this one. Pretty hilarious.
Any single one of Christine O’Donnell’s questionable claims over the past several years about her educational background might be able to be written off as a misunderstanding or miscommunication. But when you string them all together, and add in the fact that she wasn’t finally awarded an undergraduate degree until this month, and it looks like a classic case of trying to overcompensate for a lack of credentials you desperately want. But whatever was going on in her head — and really, who knows? — it requires a very skewed reading of her history of fibbin’ to conclude it was all just accidental.
Democrats are planning — unrealistically, I think — to get a lot done in the lame-duck session of Congress after the election. But Republicans are already laying down a marker that the omnibus spending bill, which didn’t get finished before everyone dashed back home to try to save their seats, will be a no-go come December. Which puts us one step closer to a government shutdown.
It had to happen. The ultimate, definitive, bestest Christine O’Donnell evah. We start with this pic from 2002 with Christine spending some quality time with Ozzy Osborne. Perhaps during a moment of backsliding toward the Occult? Everyone has their moments of weakness, right?
We’ve tracked down another Christine O’Donnell higher ed fib.
Christina Bellantoni just got the Claremont Institute in California, where O’Donnell once had a fellowship, to read over the phone the resume O’Donnell submitted to them. It includes this line:
Oxford University, Oxford, UK Certificate awarded Summer 2001
As we now know, she didn’t attend Oxford. More here.