A new study finds that approximately 7500 children are brought to US hospitals each year after receiving gunshot wounds. About 500 die.
Breaking News: Federal Judge rules Texas anti-Abortion law unconstitutional.
A judge sentenced former Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) to three years in prison for corruption and money laundering.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, declares: “Unless the United States is engaged in hostilities against a country or there is an emergency need for this type of surveillance, I do not believe the United States should be collecting phone calls or emails of friendly presidents and prime ministers.”
FreedomWorks, the leading Tea Party pressure group, has endorsed the Mississippi Tea Party primary challenger who attended a recent Neo-Confederate conference and has other neo-Confederate ties. FreedomWorks called McDaniel “the clear choice for fiscal conservatives and lovers of liberty across the state of Mississippi.”
A couple of hours ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) issued a statement that, among other things, asserted that the White House told her that it would no longer continue to surveil allied foreign leaders.
Coming from Feinstein, who is chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, that’s a pretty big deal. The exact wording of her statement: “The White House has informed me that collection on our allies will not continue, which I support.”
So we, and others, asked the White House if that was true. In response to that question, a spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council has issued a statement … declining to comment.
Late Update: An senior administration official now tells TPM that Feinstein’s statement was not accurate.
Here’s a fascinating conglomeration of hucksterism, right-wing paranoia, secular eschatology all from one pasty dude selling something called the “Patriot Survival Plan.” It’s like the ur-document that brings together so much of today’s neo-gold-buggism, Prepperism, paranoia about Obama’s impending martial law, gun hoarding, the coming descent into urban warfare, food shortages and crazed mobs of dark people. How you can survive and thrive after total societal collapse. It’s all in a video, which is epically crazy and yet hard to stop watching. Just watch and let me know what you think. Seriously, you’ve got to see this.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen someone bend over quite so far backwards to mislead people about what’s contained in a story. But it is Lisa Myers. So I guess we shouldn’t be surprised? We were just discussing this amongst our ed staff: it’s true that the White House did oversell how little change there would be in the individual insurance market. But saying that millions of people are getting ‘cancellation notices’ or ‘losing their coverage’ is deeply misleading.
The push, including by many Democratic senators, to extend the Obamacare open enrollment period past the currently scheduled end date of March 31 seems to make intuitive sense: If people haven’t been able to enroll on the front end because of the problems with HealthCare.gov, then give them more time to enroll on the back end.
But it’s a lot more complicated than that, primarily for financial and actuarial reasons, and the insurance industry is launching a lobbying effort to prevent it from happening. Dylan Scott reports.
Nothing gets a group of feminists more riled up than arguing over how to have a “feminist wedding,” but it’s it’s the thing after the wedding — an equal marriage — that we should be really worried about.