Federal judge forwards to pals racist ‘joke’ email suggesting President Obama was the product of a union between his white mother and a dog.
Lest anyone be fooled by Joe Arpaio’s latest stunt — a fun-filled paean to birtherism coming later today — let us recount some of our previous favorites from the man from Maricopa.
How far are Republicans willing to run under the banner of “defending” religious liberty?
Today will tell.
Our Congressional reporters Brian Beutler and Sahil Kapur explain just what’s at stake in the upcoming vote on Roy Blunt’s amendment, which seeks to provide all employers the sort of conscience objections to health care benefits that forced the standoff between the Catholic Church and the White House.
Must read piece.
We’ve now confirmed Andrew Brietbart’s death with the Los Angeles coroner’s office.
I was … I am stunned to hear of the death of Andrew Breitbart. I don’t think there’s much of anything I agreed with him about, which is an understatement. My interactions with him were first friendly, then later heated and vexed, though maybe not unfriendly even then. He tweeted something at me yesterday, which I ignored. There are some people who live for the fight. It’s something I try not to be part of. Yet it’s a big, punchy, vivid and outrageously honorable tradition in the American public square. I cannot think of many people who lived more out loud than he did, more in primary colors. I remember thinking at some points even the name — the way it rolls off your tongue — has this rough, brickbat, unsmoothable sound: Breit / Bart. Read More
The Senate will vote on the Blunt amendment shortly. You can follow the debate and the vote at TPMLiveWire.
Attila the Huh?
Former New York Governor George Pataki (R) makes a claim for all-time uncomfortable expression of party loyalty.
Video after the jump. Read More
The Stop Mitt effort launched in Michigan by some progressives, “Operation Hilarity,” is expanding to Super Tuesday states.
The apologetic Montana federal judge who admitted forwarding a racist email about President Obama has filed a complaint against himself with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.