Romney campaign responds to calls to condemn endorser Ted Nugent for harsh comments.
From TPM Reader JM …
I’m not wired into the Arizona political establishment; I’m just an AZ resident and very interested observer, or slightly more than–in 2008 I wrote Barack Obama: The Comic Book Biography, which was featured on CNN and Fox News and just about every major newspaper in the country, and spawned legions of imitators. I’m a novelist and comic book/graphic novel author, and my blog is about half-and-half writing and politics. I live in Gabby Giffords’s district, know Gabby a little, and miss her like crazy,
We have the first casualty of Mitt Romney’s post-nomination repositioning on immigration. Anti-immigration hardliner Kris Kobach dumped as campaign ‘advisor’.
Jeff Malet captured Discovery as it flew past the iconic Smithsonian “Castle.”
Today NASA released this fantastic shot from Hubble.
Secret Service scandal set off because agents wanted two-for-one deal, prostitute refused.
How Capitol Hill Republicans decided that deficits were just fine after all.
The Department of Justice has been poking around Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s operation for so long that a lot of people have given up hope that any real action will come of it (see here, for example).
But if DOJ is ever going to move against the rogue sheriff criminally, it may finally have what it needs to do so: findings by a state Supreme Court disciplinary panel that there is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Arpaio and his henchmen used their office to bring bogus criminal charges against a sitting judge as part of a political power play/vendetta.
Nick Martin lays out how the explosive findings could be DOJ’s road map to bringing down Arpaio.
Let’s be honest: Most investigative reporting doesn’t get widely read because it’s dense, inaccessible and not very compelling. It lands with a thud and isn’t heard from again. That’s why I was rooting for a couple of guys this time around for Pulitzers whose work was doggedly reported, widely read, and forced the powers that be to react. Read More