“It’s hard to get employment when you’re under federal indictment.”
Darren Huff, speaking on the witness stand last week before being convicted on federal charges of mounting an attempted armed takeover of a Tennessee courthouse as part of the birther struggle to remove President Obama from office.
Yesterday Rick Perry introduced his campaign-saving ‘flat tax’ proposal, which turns out to be flat only for really wealthy people.
There’s a history of so-called ‘alternative minimum taxes’, basically tools in the tax code to prevent very wealthy people from finding ways of paying little or no tax. But the Perry plan appears to function as an ‘alternative maximum tax’, a tool in the tax code to prevent high-income earners from paying any more in taxes than the middle class.
For readers who have followed voting rights issues for a long time, you’ll want to check this out. The Justice Department thinks it has the sort of evidence of racially discriminatory redistricting that you would only dream up for a law school exam: actual emails from Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), pictured, discussing ways to dilute the Hispanic vote in Texas when they redrew congressional districts this year.
You can practically hear the DOJ lawyers high-fiving each other in their brief to the court: Read More
Police used tear gas to clear out #OWS protestors in Oakland last night.
The third and final installment of our scouting report on the GOP field.
Perry tells Bill O’Reilly that biggest mistake of the campaign so far was agreeing to debate.
It turns out that not only did Muammar Qaddafi keep a scrapbook of Condi Rice pics, he also commissioned a song in her honor: “Black Flower in the White House.”