You know about the ‘Fast and Furious’ drug running scandal in which the Obama Justice Department allowed guns to be sent into the hands of Mexican drug cartels in a misconceived effort to track illegal gun sales across the border. But the NRA isn’t buying it. The NRA is now saying that the ‘gun walking’ effort was part of a grand conspiracy to let the gun situation get out of hand as a pretext for Obama to outlaw guns.
Rep. Issa (R-CA) wants Feds to probe ACORN’s role in ‘Occupy’ movement.
In today’s Campaign in 100 Seconds relive Herman Cain’s greatest campaign moments before Gloria Allred’s client said he put his hand up her skirt when she asked for job advice. Truly a candidate made for the era of mash-up reels. Watch.
Last month I noted that while President Obama’s poll numbers remained grim, the national conversation had shifted significantly away from deficit reduction and toward jobs in the month or two since the end of the budget shutdown. That shift now seems much more clear and durable than it was then. And we’re now seeing the first signs — though still very marginal — that President Obama’s political and electoral fortunes are shifting too. Read More
Cain’s latest accuser takes the discussion to Piers Morgan’s show.
Couldn’t help passing on this choice paragraph from the Chicago Tribune’s profile of Herman Cain’s latest accuser, Sharon Bialek.
Bialek met her fiance [Mark Harwood] online several years ago. After communicating via email for many months, they fell in love on their first date, which lasted 72 hours, Harwood said.
Why the Super Committee is heading into the fearful forest of epic fail.
Details come out about Cain accuser Sharon Bialek’s professional and financial history and the Cain camp rolls out the big trashing cannons.
With today’s ruling by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the individual insurance mandate in the health care reform law, we may have reached the point where the weight of jurisprudence now favors the Supreme Court upholding the law.
Of course, the Supreme Court doesn’t weigh the number of rulings in favor against those opposed to reach its own decision — and this court in particular has not been shy about putting bold new imprimaturs on the law. So take my hunch for what it’s worth, but my sense is there is enough disagreement among conservatives legal minds on this Commerce Clause issue (see Brett Kavanaugh’s dissent today, for example) that the Supreme Court will stop short of a wholesale reworking of the modern constitutional underpinning in this area.
Happy to have our con law readers weigh in here.