A raft of new polling data shows the GOP nomination race … improbably, is totally wide open. Very few Republicans have any strong attachment to any of the candidates.
German authorities are racing to reopen and prosecute hundreds of dormant Nazi-era war crimes cases, the AP reports:
Special Nazi war-crimes investigators reopened the files after the conviction of former U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk, whose case set a new legal precedent in Germany, said Kurt Schrimm, the prosecutor who heads the unit. …
Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, welcomed the news that the files were being re-examined and urged prosecutors to act quickly.
“As our numbers – those of the victims – have also rapidly dwindled, this represents the final opportunity to witness justice carried out in our lifetimes,” he said. “Time is the enemy here.”
Roger Ailes: I hired Sarah Palin at Fox News “because she was hot and got ratings.”
Photos of California accountant Kinde Durkee, the Democratic campaign treasurer accused in a giant alleged fraud scheme involving dozens if not hundreds of campaigns, have been hard to come by. But we managed to get ahold of the mugshot of the woman whose alleged crimes have reportedly wiped out the campaign accounts of multiple major Democrats in California.
It turns out one of the folks that could be hit pretty hard by the “Buffett Rule” is none other than Mitt Romney, which is presenting Democrats with a short and potentially sweet way of explaining to voters what’s at stake in the coming election. This could be a big deal.
Cain to jobless and non-wealthy: Stop whining, losers!
Sen. Schumer: Let’s make ‘wealthy’ start at $1 million taxable income a year.