Jon Stewart, on Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. Watch.

Mayor Bloomberg goes on the Daily Show to talk about the ‘mosque’ controversy. It’s all politics. Watch.

Why the recession is killing the Dems … and why over the last two years they’ve managed to let the Republicans win the argument against the policies that might do anything about it.

Cabbie slasher moved from Rikers Island to psych ward at Bellevue.

Hedge fund managers powwow in Greenwich on how to help GOP candidates in November.

This is just a quick heads up that we’re going to be rolling out some changes later today in how you can log in to the site to comment on articles. More details in a post to follow. But basically it will allow us to create a more ‘robust’ login ‘experience’ (i.e., it will consistently work) as well as help us to crack down on the evil scourge of comment spam. Finally, it will also allow you to login to TPM using other ‘identities’ or ‘logins’ you have from other major sites. And for the translation of that: that means you can login with your gmail account, your Twitter account, Facebook, etc. As we’ll detail in post later today we’ve built the new system with your privacy, control and ease of use as our top concerns. More details to follow.

Back in the day Brett Schundler was the rising star of the NJ GOP, making his mark as the uber-conservative Mayor heavily Democratic Jersey City. He made his name in the ‘cut every benefit cut every everything’ wing of the party.

But today when Gov. Christie (R) asked him for his resignation as state Ed Commissioner result of errors and misrepresentations from Schundler in a matter costing the state $400 million in federal “Race to the Top” money he asked if he could be fired instead so he could collect unemployment benefits.

It’s hard straddling the fence without getting splinters in your … britches.

So discovered Gov. Charlie Crist — the fence-straddler extraordinaire of the 2010 — this afternoon when he very clearly said in a broadcast interview he would have voted for ObamaCare had he been in the Senate. That’s completely at odds with Crist’s position on health care reform up to now, and he quickly issued a statement to clarify that he would not have voted for it.

Evan McMorris-Santoro dissects the flip-flop-flip.

Just posted by Sen. McCain on Twitter. Frighteningly does not appear to have been photoshopped.