Join our Rachel Slajda as she journeys through the fever swamp of right-wing Census paranoia.
And before you get too cocky, are you really so sure that the Census isn’t a plot send you to an internment camp or make you marry the gay guy who looked at you the wrong way at Denny’s last week?
Ever since that unfortunate turn of events with the Hutaree Christian militia up in Michigan, the folks the feds had to round up for plotting to kill a police officer and then ambush his funeral procession with Iraq-style IEDs, the good militia brand has taken a bit of a beating.
So this Saturday the folks who I guess we’re supposed to think of as coming from the ‘mainstream’ militia movement, the so-called ‘Michigan militia’, are hosting a family-oriented “Open Carry Family Picnic & Tea Party” to show the true face of the lifestyle and help “take the stigma out of the word ‘militia.'”
Rielle Hunter will do Oprah next. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
With Justice Stevens hinting a retirement might be coming soon, we look at the names being bandied about as his possible replacement and how each Democrats and Republicans are revving up for another SCOTUS battle royale (judiciale?)
… or a member of the Hutaree Christian militia: Hang a big map on the wall and redraw the lines to divvy up the country among you and your pals and rename cities and towns to your liking, using your own names. Fun stuff.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, as conservative and dare I say reactionary as they come, launches his own PAC: “Liberty Now.”
Absolutely must-see Fox video about how the president’s new nuclear pact with Russia could lead to our nuclear annihilation.
The FBI has arrested a California man for threatening Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to the AP.