Me thinks there’s a lot to be found in this new article about Romney’s many off-shore tax havens and secret accounts.

This morning RNC Chair Reince Priebus said he agreed with the Romney campaign that the mandate is a tax — a day after the Romney campaign said it’s not a tax.

The Republican-controlled legislature in North Carolina managed to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of a pro-fracking bill late last night when a Democratic representative … pushed the wrong voting button(!). The GOP leadership then blocked her attempt to correct her vote, leaving her in tears and her colleagues consoling her.

As he promised, Bill O’Reilly offered an on-air apology for his “idiot” prediction of how the Supreme Court would rule on Obamacare.

Yet another legislative oversight in the crafting of the health care reform law. This one gives GOP-led states one more way to drag their feet on implementation. Brian Beutler explains.

Deeply affecting Rolling Stone piece on the recently dispossessed and now homeless American middle class that defies your expectations and stereotypes.

The NYT on renowned climate scientist Lonnie Thompson and his cohort of researchers:

Dr. Thompson, 64, is one of the most prominent of the generation of scientists who, in the latter decades of the 20th century, essentially discovered the problem of global warming. Now those scientists are beginning to age out of the field. Many of them say they grapple with the question of how hard to keep pushing themselves. Could one more finding or one more expedition help turn the tide of public awareness?

Worth a read.

No getting around that Team Romney and national Republicans are not on the same page about trumpeting Obama’s individual mandate as a tax. It’s for reasons that have less to do with the politics of the moment than with Mitt’s repeated descriptions over the years of his own mandate in Massachusetts as a tax. One GOP strategist we talked to about the channel conflict uses the elegant euphemism “message dichotomy.”

I never much cared that Andy Griffith occupied a mostly earnest, irony-free zone as an entertainer.* Still loved his whole schtick. Our memorial slideshow. Read More

Police seek charges against former Commerce Secretary John Bryson for last month’s hit and run incident.