The doomed Senate candidacy of Chuck Hassebrook could come to an end as soon as today.
TPM Reader MT can’t hold back …
The “controversy” around President Obama’s 1990 speech at Harvard on the occasion of the late Professor Bell’s decision to take a leave of absence to protest Harvard’s hiring practices is shameful in what it implies (full disclosure — Professor Bell taught me Constitutional Law at NYU during his self-imposed exile from Harvard).
Back in September Ed Fry, an Occupy movement lawyer from Santa Cruz, California, put up a $35,000 bond on behalf of homeless Anonymous hacker “Commander X” (aka Christopher Doyon).
Now Commander X has absconded to Canada and the Feds want Fry to pay up.
Who says Mitt Romney can’t appeal to southern voters.
The man likes grits, and he’ll tell you so.
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Ken Ard will now have a lot more free time to polish his Playstation skills.
The Republicans had an awful mid-term election in 1982 and Ronald Reagan cruised to a historic landslide two years later in 1984. A rebounding economy was a huge factor in the change. Is something even remotely similar going to happen with Barack Obama in 2012? Here’s a really important chart showing the similarities and differences between the economic trajectory during the two periods. Take a look.