New brain injury study signals hope for survivors of bomb blast injuries.
Jon Huntman’s America would have no capital gains tax, no earned income tax credit, no child credit, and no tax exemption for employer-provided health insurance.
In Wisconsin, where public employee unions have been the target of the new Republican-controlled statehouse, more than twice as many public school teachers have retired this year than in each of the past two years.
Some reader reactions to yesterday’s brouhaha over when Obama would be allowed to address a joint session of Congress about the jobs crisis:
Late Update: I’ve added a few more at the bottom: Read More
Longtime TPM Reader JB checks in:
The scheduling issue is much ado about nothing. It is the yadda yadda yadda in the story. We will not spend one iota thinking about it over the long weekend or after some targeted leaks concerning the speech’s contents. Chris Cilliza is right, any story about process is a loser for the President. There are 100,000 people who care about this story and their 2012 votes were decided after the 2008 election.
I would like to make one other point.
A helpful timeline of yesterday’s back and forth over the timing of the President’s congressional address on jobs. You be the judge.
Federal judge invites lawyers to “kindergarten party” to teach them how not to waste his time.
I say this recognizing the great wreck of society and suffering his rule caused over four decades and the carnage of the last six months. But the one thing that seems clear to me about Muammar Gaddafi today is that his post-Strongmancy is turning out to be even more entertaining than his Strongman period itself.
Yesterday I was catching running updates on the Gaddafi story from the twitter feed of al Arabiya English. At one point Gaddafi’s son Saadi announced that his father had empowered him to negotiate a ‘cease-fire’ with the rebels. Later, Gaddafi himself declared that he now wants to join the new rebel government. (I mean, he’s a lifelong public servant, has a lot of management experience running Libya … so why not?) Both of which — for a man who not only no longer appears to control anything but can’t even be located — are of course awesome. Read More
Hard to imagine what could go wrong when a renegade lawman like Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio brings in movie tough guys like Steven Seagal to do raids on people’s houses using tanks and other cool movie hardware. Seems in this case, when Seagal and some of Arpaio’s deputies raided Jesus Sanchez Llovera’s home with a tank, Sanchez’s dog was killed in the subsequent gunfire. As well as 100 roosters. Sanchez is now suing Seagal for $100,000 damages.
Seagal was filming the raid for his reality show Steven Seagal: Lawman.
Whodathunk that a county GOP in Rep. Gabby Giffords’ district raffling off a gun similar to the one used to shoot her would be such a problem?