Editors’ Blog - 2013
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07.17.13 | 10:10 am
Outside the Reality Based Universe

Market Yakker Jim Cramer says, no way, our CNBC talkers totally bested Elizabeth Warren.

07.17.13 | 10:12 am
The Alchemy of Drones and Derp

We tend to focus on the eerie power and invincibility of drones. But what about when a military drone crashes on a highway in Florida, the second crash in a week?

07.17.13 | 10:49 am
Again

11 year old shot to death with a handgun by another child, apparently while playing with a gun at home.

07.17.13 | 10:53 am
Kids and Gun Accidents

As you know we’ve been publishing the seemingly endless number of cases of children, playing with guns, accidentally shooting each other, sometimes fatally. The stories speak for themselves. But I wanted to share with you this reader email which brings us right up close to what this means, for decades after the gun is fired. It’s really a must-read.

07.17.13 | 11:56 am
Not Making the Cut

John Oliver says the “Nuclear Option” is “The World’s Worst Jerry Bruckheimer Movie”. Watch.

07.17.13 | 12:29 pm
Not Your Daddy’s Drone … Or Actually

Earlier this afternoon I mentioned that a drone had crashed on US Highway 98 on the east side of Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida. I’d been assuming some version of those long tube, spindly craft we’ve known for the better part of a decade. But that’s not what this is at all. Read More

07.17.13 | 1:05 pm
The Day In 100 Seconds

There were two big stories on cable TV today: Liz Cheney’s Senate run and the stifling heat. See if you can tell which clips are which.

Full-size version.

07.17.13 | 3:51 pm
Ooops. That’s Not Right

It seems like Javier Sanchez, Michele Bachmann’s just arrested top advisor, may also have repeatedly misrepresented his military service. On at least two occasions he appeared in public (once on Fox News) as a Marine Captain who’d served in Iraq and Bosnia. In fact, his highest rank was sergeant and he apparently never set foot in either country.

These appearances took place while Sanchez worked for the Armed Forces Foundation, where he was later fired “for misrepresenting his role within the Foundation.”

07.17.13 | 6:40 pm
Prime Update

An update on the relaunch of TPMPrime.