Iowa school superintendent tells TPM that the anti-gay Christian rap group Junkyard Prophet will not be performing in his schools again.

If Ed Rendell gets in trouble for accepting speaking fees from the MEK, a whole lot of other DC bigwigs will be sweating, too.

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It’s starting to look like that shocking, horrific story of the soldier who went on a mass killing spree might lead in some unexpected and even more troubling directions. We’re now hearing that the soldier in question was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury from an incident in Iraq in 2010 but was later declared fit for duty. Read More

North Carolina county commission turns down state grant for family planning services. “If these young women are being responsible and didn’t have the sex to begin with, we wouldn’t have this problem to begin with,” commission chairman Tom Davis explained.

Mitt Romney’s positions: increasingly impossible to nail down.

Important chart on the difference in government spending between the recovery in Reagan’s first term and Obama’s halting recovery now.

Jon Stewart to Mitt Romney: “You’re a guy who looks like you just stepped off of the Monopoly board. You really think you’re gonna appeal to Southerners by finding reference with them on the issues that matter most to them: their accent and choosing the right breakfast starch?” Watch.

A couple of House committee chairman are facing primary challenges down in Alabama today. Very hard to get a read on those races, but both incumbents are running hard.

After suggesting President Obama is an anti-white radical, an indignant Sarah Palin says the Obama camp “heavily edited” her remarks.