What are the legal implications of a former American official turned businessman counseling the Qaddafi regime on how to undermine the reputation in America of the rebels amassed against it.
Last I’d heard of Stephen Goldsmith, he was the hotshot Mayor of Indianapolis, beloved of the Club for Growth, Manhattan Institute crowd. Back in 1998 I edited this piece on him by Michael Grunwald in the American Prospect. (I think I edited it. I lose track of which I edited or just read drafts of.) Now it turns out he’s been working in my own city as Number 2 for Mayor Michael Bloomberg. And now he’s resigned from that gig because he got busted at his DC home (this guy has a lot of cities) on a domestic violence charge.
“I should have put a bullet through you years ago,” Goldsmith’s wife Margaret allegedly told Goldsmith just before he shoved her, according to the police report.
Goldsmith’s wife later stated under oath that the incident was “taken out of context” and “an enormous misunderstanding” and declined to press charges.
(ed.note: In this post I originally incorrectly said that Goldsmith said the bullet thing to his wife. In fact, his wife said it to him. Allegedly.)
Endlessly disgraced Italian PM caught on sex investigation phone transcript vowing to leave Italy because it’s a “sh*tty country” which has “sickened him.”
Justice Department responds with bogus argument in support of wildly excessive sentencing recommendation for Abramoff associate Kevin Ring.
Yep, I know he’s not popular. But this is still an utter crock. Twenty years in prison for free meals and sports tickets to members of Congress and staffers? Really?
It’s almost like the DOJ is acting out in this case because most of the real players in the scandal got off scott-free.
Everyone loves Netflix — except the content creators who think they’re not getting paid enough for their wares and the folks who own the Internet pipes who are miffed that they’re not getting their own piece of the action. Here’s one of the early shots in the unfolding war.
I didn’t get a chance yesterday to post this email from TPM Reader TA while we were discussing the jobs speech scheduling throwdown, but I want to make sure it gets into the mix:
While I agree with “JB” that Obama was smart not to make a fight out of the
scheduling issue, I also believe that s/he is wrong in assessing the impact of Boehner’s move as being one that only 100,000 people care about or that no one will think about it one iota.It ignores a critical element of Obama’s base that is particularly sensitive to slights Republicans give the President – the African-American community.
The Defense Department issued the following press release Thursday:
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Air Force Major Thomas E. Reitmann of Red Wing, Minn., will be buried on Sept. 8 in Arlington National Cemetery.
What was really behind the bankruptcy of U.S. solar panel manufacturer Solyndra?