That’s the slogan of Southwest Airlines… But it seems it’s very much not on if you’re a Muslim woman saying “I’ve got to go” into the phone and an air hostess mishears you as saying, “It’s a go.”
Rick Perry’s new attack ad against “Romneycare” bears a striking resemblance to the horror film trailers you start seeing around this time of year. This one’s a real “monster rally“: Jimmy Carter! Chris Hayes! Obama! How will our hero survive?
Looks like Twitter-user “@Qwikster” can breathe a marijuana-scented sigh of relief: Netflix is dumping its controversial plans to spin off its DVD delivery into a separate “Qwikster” service.
Were you unable to attend the socially conservative Value Voters Summit this weekend? Don’t worry: this slideshow transports you right there.
The anti-Mormon and pro-Perry Pastor Robert Jeffress is doing a great job of calling attention to himself by telling people not to pay attention to him. His latest line: he’s “not the Jeremiah Wright of the right.”
TPM’s Ryan Reilly points out that Jeffress took some time off bashing Mormons last year to go after Muslims instead, in a rather colorful way.
In Mitt Romney’s first and now his second presidential run he’s been surprisingly successful finessing the fact that he used to call himself pro-choice as recently as the middle of the last decade. But his rivals — in both parties — are seeing if they can use it again to pin him with the lethal flip-flopper label.
This is sure to set off a raging debate: it looks like the FDA is moving towards a positive decision regarding the commercialization of genetically-engineered salmon.
Plenty of passion on both sides over this issue. Fascinating article here.
When Robert Gates, Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke are all basically saying that congressional dysfunction is threatening the most basic functions of government, it’s probably time to pay attention.