I think virtually anything can be written off from a politician’s high school days, as long as there’s some reckoning with it. What surprised me most about yesterday’s revelations was that the Romney campaign did not choose to address this on its own terms. Read More

Is Mitt’s lack of any political core or center, paradoxically, making it hard to tack to the center post-primaries?

Mitt Romney makes the required pilgrimage Saturday to the late Rev. Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, where “Hair and clothing styles related to a counterculture (as determined by the Student Affairs Deans’ Review Committee) are not acceptable.”

Geraldo on Fox and Friends this morning: “The last time I flew to Afghanistan, I got manually raped by a guy.”

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Researchers hunting for the elusive Higgs Boson particle are going to have to wade through an unprecedented volume of particle collision data now that the Large Hadron Collider powered up to a higher level.

I got in a bit of an argument on Twitter earlier this week about my belief in the importance of unitary citizenship — or to put it another way, thinking dual citizenship is really not okay. Read More

When you’re the President, you get to have Sofia Vergara come by the office on a Saturday. But, dude … is that a track suit?

MSNBC host Tamron Hall kicks right-wing Washington Examiner reporter off her show live on the air.

The Obama camp takes it first shot at Mitt Romney since the JP Morgan debacle over his opposition to financial reform.

In its statement to TPM a short time ago, the Obama campaign knocked Mitt Romney’s opposition to financial reform but stopped short of tying him to the JP Morgan mess, or even mentioning it specifically. That’s because the JP Morgan losses are a very sticky issue for the Obama administration. Financial regulatory reform was intended to prevent the kinds of trading JP Morgan was engaging in, but the rules as written by Obama administration regulators may not actually prohibit it, as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon was quick to point out yesterday. Brian Beutler explains.