The polls out of Ohio are starting to look a lot like Michigan, with a probable come from behind victory for Mitt.
Not content to be labeled a one-trick pony with his state-specific renditions of “America the Beautiful”, Mitt Romney proves in Tennessee that he knows how to mix things up.
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s on-going ‘investigation’ into President Obama’s birth certificate turns out to be a for-profit endeavor.
I’m certainly not the first person to note that the public discussion about Iran and its nuclear intentions has taken on a markedly different tone in the United States in recent weeks. The prospect of war over those intentions — unclear though they remain — is increasingly discussed and reported less in matters of “if”, but of “when.”
That certainly doesn’t mean we’re on our way, but those who remember 2003 well, and worry that we’ve perhaps not learned its lessons have been given good cause to wonder.
As to those lessons, take a quick look at this screen-shot from CNN’s Situation Room this afternoon. Read More
New insights into how Goldman Sachs operates.
It’s not so much that I agree with Paul Pillar’s conclusions regarding a nuclear-capable Iran, but that he lays out the proper, rational framework for how to analyze the problem — an approach completely at odds with most of the irrational conventional wisdom about Iran. You should take a few minutes to read Pillar’s piece.
Female Democratic officeholders take the lead in opposing the Blunt amendment and combatting Limbaugh.
Meanwhile, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is catching hell from women back home over voting for the Blunt amendment and now says she regrets her vote.
And in Ohio, a female state senator is planning to introduce a bill today that targets erectile dysfunction medications. “I care about the health of men as well, and I thought it only fair that we illustrate that and make sure that a man is fully informed of the risks involved in taking these drugs and also the alternatives such as natural remedies or also celibacy,” Sen. Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) tells TPM, with tongue in cheek.
Over the weekend I started writing an article about Rush Limbaugh, apologies and what we used to call “hang time” at TPM — namely, the period of time between a Republican politician’s rebuke of Rush Limbaugh and the inevitable abject apology. But of course, quite a lot has happened since then. Rush has issued his own non-apology apology; a slew of advertisers have bailed on his show; and it’s become standard for Republican politicians’ to criticize him at some level, something made much easier by his own nominal apology.
But there’s no making sense of this Limbaugh controversy without putting it into the larger scope of the high stakes gamble Republicans made in putting birth control at the center of the national election debate as the economy began to recede as a sure-fire election winner. Read More