Exclusive: See the invite Morgan Stanley execs sent to employees inviting them to a special Mitt Romney fundraiser.

An incredible bird’s-eye view of one of the Colorado wildfires.

Colorado’s devastating wildfire is still raging, and conservatives know just who to blame for it.

In a Newsmax interview, Romney seems to shift his position on what illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children would have to do to secure permanent legal status. Benjy Sarlin reports.

Romney misstates own position on immigration. Campaign tells TPM no change in his immigration policy.

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Tea Party planning July 4th comeback.

Brian Beutler recaps the torturous political and legal path that health care reform had to travel, with our key stories from the last three years.

In addition to the week of the historic Health Care Reform decision before the Supreme Court, this last week was also the week of the incredibly short-lived progressive boomlet in favor of single-payer national health care reform.

Had the Supreme Court struck down ‘Obamacare’, the idea was to dispense with all the half-measures and simply push going forward for what most left-liberals and perhaps most Democrats actually support, which is a single payer national health care program — some version of what exists in virtually every other major industrialized country in the world or, in terms more readily understandable to Americans, Medicare For All. Read More

I’ve got a question: Just how stupid are all you reporters? No, that’s not a rhetorical question. Whether you want to call the ACA health care mandate a tax or not is mainly a semantic point. It’s a penalty or tax or perhaps a tax penalty on people who refuse to purchase health insurance, even after they received subsidies that make it possible. But Republicans are now saying it’s the ‘biggest tax increase in history’ — either of America or the universe of whatever. But this is demonstrably false.

The Congressional Budget Office says the mandate penalty will raise $27 billion between 2012 and 2021. $27 billion over a decade. Anybody who cares to can do the math. But if you want to call it a ‘tax increase’ — which is debatable — it’s clearly one of tiniest ones in history.

I’d be curious how many interviewers are (or are not) stopping folks who make this claim and pointing out this fact. Send me examples.