Hoekstra gets confronted on CNN about his proposal to create a special federal birther office to confirm presidential candidates are ‘natural born citizens’.
In this week’s “Crosstabs” TPM’s Poll Editor Kyle Leighton breaks down next week’s recall election in Wisconsin.
The Susan G. Komen foundation’s annual Race for the Cure event is taking a huge financial hit after last year’s Planned Parenthood funding debacle.
Inside Google’s plan to leverage every weapon in its arsenal to get you to start using Google+.
Most have moved on from this. But TPM Reader JH has a good take on just what Eduardo Saverin got out of his US citizenship. One little discussed issue is that coming to the US was in part triggered when Saverin’s name showed up on a list of potential kidnap-for-ransom targets in his native Brazil …
I’m not a lawyer, but as an historian I have always understood that concepts of citizenship in the Western world, particularly the English-speaking world, rested on centuries of English law holding, in part, that in return for the protection of the Crown a citizen owed the monarch his allegiance. You could renounce the allegiance, but while you depended on the protection of the Crown you were bound by certain obligations, including taxation and going to war if that was required.
I believe Senator Schumer stated things very accurately. According to TPM’s account: “The senator emphasized that the Brazilian-born Saverin and his family immigrated to the United States out of fear for their safety while he was a young boy, and said it’s immoral to dodge his responsibilities after having benefited tremendously.”
A three-judge panel of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.
Rep. Hoekstra, fresh off calling for a federal office of birtherism is now calling the whole issue of birtherism an “absolutely ludicrous discussion.”
I woke up this morning to read an astonishingly bad piece of reporting/analysis from Politico, publicly chin scratching about the apparently massive press bias against the Romney campaign. But a piece in GQ sums it up better than I could so let me quote the key passage … Read More
North Carolina Republicans have come up with a novel strategy to combat a future threatened by a rise in sea levels, which scientists agree will continue to accelerate thanks to global warming: Pass a law pretending it won’t happen.