Only the earliest reports now, but there’s been a bus bombing at Jerusalem’s central bus station. No reports of fatalities yet. But there are unconfirmed reports of dozens of casualties. We’ll keep you posted on the latest details in this post.
9:36 PM: Unconfirmed reports suggest no fatalities in the bombing but a number of severe injuries. Early reports also suggest that this may not have been a suicide bombing and may not have been on a bus. I stress: These are unconfirmed reports. Do not be surprised if they change in significant ways.
9:43 PM: Another report suggests this was a bomb placed at a public phone adjacent to the bus bombing.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like this. IBM has opened up a scathing attack on Indiana Governor and probable presidential candidate Mitch Daniels (R). It’s over two high stakes lawsuits involving a ton of money. Daniels, as governor, cancelled the contracts and the computer giant is hitting Daniels over his attempt to avoid being deposed in the case.
How can you hope to be an effective president without a one sentence doctrine?
Prankster James O’Keefe is asking readers for $50,000 to cover over-extended credit card bills. Money over 50k will go to more video pranks.
The Tea Partying Gov of Maine says he’s received complaints that the state’s Department of Labor headquarters doesn’t have a pro-business enough feel. So he’s ordered the department to remove a rather dated looking mural depicting the history of the labor movement in the US and immediately change the names of all the buildings conference rooms to more business friendly or landscape oriented names.
For weeks Newt Gingrich has been insisting on a Libya No-Fly-Zone. This morning he said it was a bad idea and that he wouldn’t have done it.
Can it really be such a simple contradiction? Actually, pretty much, yeah.
BREAKING: Gingrich has just taken to Facebook to try to rationalize his completely contradictory position. However, what he says is so convoluted and hard to follow that we now have four credentialed TPM news specialists reviewing the post to determine which way he’s now flipping. We’ll have more shortly when our team determines what he’s saying.
Speaker Boehner demands answers from President Obama on the hows and whys of our military deployment in Libya.
I saw that InformationWeek had picked up our story about Mitch Daniels’ grudge match with IBM.
And their headline reads: “IBM Seeks to Depose Indiana Governor.”
And on a quick look I was like, “Wow, they’re going for full regime change? That is bold. They’ve got like their own Democracy Agenda for the Middle West.”
Then I remembered the dispute is about Daniels refusing to be deposed in the lawsuit after the cancelled lawsuit. It was a fun thought while it lasted though.
Jon Stewart jumps into the CNN-Fox feud over their Libya coverage: “Only [Fox] can turn, ‘our guy missed the shuttle bus’ into, ‘Fox News alone refuses to play patsy to America’s enemies.'” Watch.