McCain amendment would make it US policy to “change the momentum” in Syria.
Based on your emails from the districts and our own reporting, we’re keeping this crowd-sourced list of where members of Congress appear stand on Syria. Keep the emails coming.
Cable news gets to the bottom of the most important developments in the ongoing Syria debate.
This yelling match between Anthony Weiner and a Jewish voter in an orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn got a lot of attention this afternoon. But it sounds like there may be more to the story. We’d heard – and now a video has emerged from the Weiner campaign suggests – that Weiner lost it when the voter in question started digging at Weiner for being married to an Arab. Watch the video here.
Our Hunter Walker is en route to a Weiner event in Manhattan to see if he can get his side of the story.
Weiner responds about confrontation with voter, says he went off on voter after he made racist comments about his wife’s being arab. Watch.
Around the time those fireworks were going on with sorta candidate Anthony Weiner today in New York, I went out to get a coffee and about a block and a half from our office walked into a press event for Bill de Blasio, the guy who you’d have to say at this point is the most likely person to become the next Mayor of New York. Read More
A Tulsa school told 7 year old Tiana Parker her dreadlocks were not acceptable as part of its policy that states that “hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, and other faddish styles are unacceptable.”
Stewart returns: “You know what, senator? Go. There’s a rascal scooter and a bucket of quarters with your name on it over at the “Golden Nugget.” You can play all the video poker you want, 99 cent prime rib. Instead of playing pretend poker in the actual Senate, go to an actual casino and pretend you know what the government should do.”
Meet the 75-year-old, hetero-married county clerk who unilaterally started the same-sex marriage revolution in New Mexico.
In case you missed it yesterday: Eric Holder has informed Congress that the Obama administration will not enforce a law that limits veterans benefits to spouses of the opposite sex.