Three women, abducted as teenagers, 9, 10 and 11 years ago from a single neighborhood in Cleveland have been found, apparently in good physical health, only a couple miles from the scene of the original abductions. Read More
Having done about four hours of updates here, I’m starting a new thread. The latest is that police have arrested three brothers tied to the abduction and captivity of the three women rescued in Cleveland tonight.
As we’ve been reporting for a few weeks, now that Senate Dems have passed a budget, Republicans have suddenly lost their enthusiasm for hallowed official processes and are resisting Democratic efforts to return to “regular order” and debate the differences between the House and Senate budgets in an at least somewhat transparent way. Even by Capitol Hill standards it’s rare for parties to reveal this kind of procedural hypocrisy so abruptly.
There are a few reasons for that. Part of it is just that the GOP budget is a political loser and Republicans don’t want to give Dems the opportunity to relitigate damaging election year debates over how much the rich should pay in taxes, what should happen to Medicare and so on. Republicans are also seemingly trying to slow walk the budget process so that it lines up with the much harder deadline of increasing the debt limit.
Which brings us to the Senate floor Monday. Read More
Illinois GOP Chair Pat Brady created a furor earlier this year when he came out in support for gay marriage. And there was a serious effort to remove him from office – one that seemed to have failed. Not the Chicago Tribune is reporting that Brady plans to resign tomorrow.
No one is more alarmed about the federal government’s conspiracy to buy up all the nation’s bullets than Stephen Colbert.
New Pentagon report estimates there are an average of 70 sexual assaults per day involving military personnel.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) seemed to be trying to fix his bleak approval numbers today when he told CNN that he was willing to reverse his vote against the Manchin-Toomey compromise that would have expanded background checks on gun purchases. The only catch, he said, was that some small changes had to be made to the measure. Read More
Arizona’s Secretary of State is also on the payroll of the major bankrollers of the national Tea Party movement and FreedomWorks.
Progressive groups boycott Facebook ads after new Zuckerberg groups comes out for the Keystone Pipeline and Arctic drilling.