Markey has 12 point lead over Gomez in Massachusetts. Currently a 10.4 point lead in the Polltracker average. See the chart. Read More
Rumsfeld says he’s not sure whether Obama has ‘switched sides’ in the War on Terror. Watch.
Tomorrow afternoon at TPMPrime we’re going to be doing a live chat with Joe Muto, the author of An Atheist In the Foxhole. You may know him better as the Fox “mole” who wrote on Gawker a while back about the inside world of Fox and then got found out really quick, canned and then … well, now he’s written a book. Join us at him at 5:30 tomorrow afternoon and get your questions in now.
[Jonathan Alter, author of the new book “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies”, is joining us as a guest blogger this week in the Editor’s Blog highlighting and discussing some key findings and revelations in his new book. – jmm]
Day Two:
One of the most important stories of the campaign was what I call “The Voter Suppression Project”–a concerted effort to tilt the election to the Republicans. Like the Tea Party, it was not dictated from Washington but Republicans in the states knew just what to do to make sure voting rules prevented Obama from winning. Read More
3 year old accidentally shot with rifle in Louisiana after rifle was knocked over by another child.
Continuing the conversation about military bases named after generals who betrayed their country with TPM Reader EL …
Amplifying reader CH’s thoughts, I would encourage proponents of tackling the enshrinement of Confederate generals as the namesakes for US Army bases to consider carefully about what battles we want to pick.
You point out quite rightly that the recasting of the war as a “useful past” which set actual treason aside in favor of a shared memory of martial honor was–along with common embrace of white supremancy–an essential component of the post-Reconstruction sectional rapproachment.
It’s a day I’m not sure I’d ever thought I’d see. The man who was the co-inspirer TPMmuckraker, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, is a free man.
John Cook, Gawker reporter and the guy who lit the fuse that exploded into the epic Mayor Rob Ford Crack scandal, has a new post saying the video is now probably “gone.” What does that mean? And is there any hope for Canada’s hopes of entering the scandal big leagues? Read More
10 year old boy dies of gunshot wound after he and 9 year old girl were playing with loaded handgun.
Let me start by saying that heckling is part of democracy. So is getting tossed out of the venue by security. Heckling is frequently offensive; especially if you support the person being heckled. But it’s healthy in a democracy that we don’t have too much deference to our leaders and that, other than the bum’s rush out of the place, there’s no punishment for acting out at leaders in non-physically threatening ways. All that said, I thought Michelle Obama came off as a badass in confronting her heckler last night at that private fundraiser. And the heckler, Heather Cronk Ellen Sturtz, is like the David Broder of hecklers. She heckles the First Lady and then when the First Lady comes back at her she starts lamenting the decline of civility! This is all what makes democracy great.