It’s not been officially confirmed yet, but local media is reporting that former NFL great Junior Seau, whose gridiron glory came mostly as a San Diego Charger, committed suicide in his Oceanside, Calif., home. Read More
If someone understands you to say that you’re opposed to gay marriage “because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to uh, reproduce,” this is not how to correct the record.
Starting later this week, TPM will shift over to using Facebook comments as our core commenting system. This is a major change. And almost anything tied to Facebook courts controversy. So I wanted to take a moment to explain what we’re doing and why. Read More
The day teetered on the edge of crazy until finally falling over the edge. Watch.
To the victor goes the spoils, but what exactly did Obama do to get bin Laden? The answer, it will not surprise you to know, is more complex than the current political debate will allow, but it also involves more than giving the greenlight to the final raid. Our report.
TPM’s Nick Martin has been writing off and on for years about J.T. Ready, the white supremacist border vigilante who allegedly took his own life Wednesday after a shooting rampage in a suburban home outside of Phoenix that left four others dead. Here’s Nick’s report.
The McCain camp was forced to fight off an insurrection on the 2008 convention floor from delegates supporting Ron Paul in what was at the time a very underreported story. It looks like the Paulites are burrowing themselves in deeply this time around, too, controlling more delegates than he “deserves” by taking advantage of the byzantine delegate-nominating process.
It’s shaping up as a big headache for Mitt Romney in Tampa. “Broadly speaking, I don’t think anyone has a firm handle on how deep this goes,” one expert on the process told us. Benjy Sarlin and Pema Levyreport.
Paul Krugman on Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI): “All he does is make scary noises about the deficit, with mood music, with organ music in the background about how ominous it is, and then propose a plan that would in fact increase the deficit.”