After national spokesman Mark Williams resigned over racist blog posts, the Tea Party Express is turning over a new leaf with a National Black Conservatives Rally at the National Press Club. Our resident Tea Party-meister Evan McMorris-Santoro was there and filed this report.
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It looks like Google its cutting its own deal to end Net Neutrality.
At TPMmuckraker we’ve been chronicling the scandals, legal woes and general problems with the DOJ of Rep. Don Young (R-AK) since at least 2007 and I think actually back to 2006 — the year Muckraker went online. But Young’s press secretary, Meredith Kenny, just told the Anchorage Daily News that the DOJ this morning contacted Young’s office and told him the investigation into him is over and no charges will be filed.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is leading a new effort to whip up support for appointing Elizabeth Warren to head up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
After seeming to backtrack from his call for hearings on the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell renewed his call for hearings this morning at a breakfast with reporters.
Jon Stewart and NYC Rep. Anthony Weiner used to be roomies, so Weiner’s House floor rant was no surprise to Stewart. Watch.
The Doctrine of Nullification was first significantly aired during the Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 and then (or so it was thought) finally settled by the Civil War (or, as some call it, the War Between Lincoln’s Tyranny and the Freedom-Loving South). But Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) says he’s not yet ready to say whether or not he thinks Virginia can nullify federal laws within its jurisdiction.
The DOJ just unsealed 14 indictments relating to individuals in the US providing material support to a terrorist group. In this case, al Shahab, the al Qaida-linked group in Somalia.