Right-wingers line up to make fun of Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) over emotional testimony at yesterday’s “Muslim radicalization” hearings.
As new details emerge from Japan and across the Pacific basin, we’re covering all the developments in our Live-Updating Japan Earthquake Wire. Click the link or see the most recent updates on the right below our feature story.
Latest news is that there’s now one fatality in Crescent City, California out of four swept to sea when the Tsunami hit.
Just wow: quake largest to hit Japan in 1200 years.
GOP state Reps in Iowa caught on live mic calling NRA-backed legislation the “Give-A-Handgun-To-A-Schizophrenic Bill.”
‘Sovereign Citizens’ arrested in Alaska for alleged plot to murder police, federal judge.
Earlier in the day I thought I had understood — perhaps mistakenly — that the Japanese nuclear power reactors affected by the earthquake and tsunami had been stabilized. But the latest reports suggest the Japanese are still struggling to keep those reactors under control.
Japanese officials are now confirming an explosion at one of the nuclear power plants they were struggling to keep under control following yesterday’s massive earthquake. Radiation has reportedly escaped but the amounts are unclear and it remains uncertain whether the explosion signifies that a disastrous meltdown of the reactor core is underway.
Michele Bachmann: “What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty. You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord.”
Shorter Bachmann: Why does Massachusetts hate the founders?
See the update in the piece about Bachmann’s response.
Don’t miss this great piece by our Eric Lach on the two brothers who run both houses of the Wisconsin state legislature.