I got in touch with my correspondent on things Turkish and my main question – in addition to where is this going? – is who are the police? Read More
Four year old shoots off finger with gun left on the couch while dad was smoking pot and taking prescription pills.
As Drudge shows, the right is going to demand its pound of Crazy from Christie in the appointment to fill out Sen. Lautenberg’s term. Won’t be pretty.
[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 ONE:
In researching the book, I came to think that the 2012 campaign represented a peculiar role reversal. Barack Obama ran a corporate-style campaign that exploited the latest digital technology. Mitt Romney, the self-described “numbers guy,” ran a campaign based on a vague hope that Americans wanted change. Here’s part of how the Romney campaign rejected Big Data: Read More
So sounds like those Congressmen hooking up with Steven Seagal for their ‘fact-finding’ mission to Russia was part of his new marketing gig for the Russian arms industry.
Noting that GOP donors and base voters will be tightly aligned in this fight, Matt Yglesias predicts Senate Republicans won’t confirm any of President Obama’s coming nominees to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals later this year.
Here’s my #slatepitch in response: Obama will get some, if not all, of his nominees confirmed. I’d personally put my money on one or two. Read More
Since April, the NAACP has been organizing weekly Monday evening protests in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh. They come in reaction to the GOP seizing control of the statehouse there for the first time since Reconstruction — a big win for Republicans in what was otherwise a pretty gloomy Election Day in November. Since then a conservative legislative agenda and some hardball political tactics have ignited Democratic opposition. Hence, the weekly protests. Last night, at least 140 protestors were arrested after entering the Legislative Building.
TPM Reader MS emails about the protests in North Carolina:
I was one of the individuals arrested last night in the Raleigh legislature. (The headcount from the NAACP was 151 last time I checked.) Glad we finally got a mention on the Editors Blog! We were all charged with failure to disperse, posting signs or placards (of this one I am innocent), and second degree trespass.
Two white male police officers were fired yesterday in Jasper, Texas, after forcefully taking down and dragging a black female who was in custody at police headquarters. The incident was caught on video.