Editors’ Blog - 2012
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04.17.12 | 10:18 am
It Keeps Growing And Growing And …

We’re up to 20 U.S. Secret Service and military personnel and 20-21 prostitutes involved in the Cartagena affair. One of the Secret Service agents involved happens to be the brother of the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, himself a former agent.

04.17.12 | 10:35 am
Obama By 4

Yet another major poll out: This one has President Obama over Mitt Romney by 4 points.

04.17.12 | 11:06 am
Fate of the Nation

Romney campaign responds to calls to condemn endorser Ted Nugent for harsh comments.

04.17.12 | 11:48 am
Could Arizona Flip?

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,

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04.17.12 | 12:05 pm
First Casualty

We have the first casualty of Mitt Romney’s post-nomination repositioning on immigration. Anti-immigration hardliner Kris Kobach dumped as campaign ‘advisor’.

04.17.12 | 12:54 pm
Coolest Shot

Jeff Malet captured Discovery as it flew past the iconic Smithsonian “Castle.”

04.17.12 | 1:21 pm
As Long As We’re Doing Space Pics …

Today NASA released this fantastic shot from Hubble.

04.17.12 | 2:05 pm
Picture of the Day

Space Shuttle flies by the Smithsonian.

04.17.12 | 2:16 pm
Oy

Secret Service scandal set off because agents wanted two-for-one deal, prostitute refused.

04.18.12 | 4:27 am
Learning to Love the Deficit

How Capitol Hill Republicans decided that deficits were just fine after all.