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A photo that tells you we’re living in the teens and not the nineties.
On Saturday evening, Montgomery County, Maryland police got an urgent and fake message claiming that someone had been shot at Wolf Blitzer’s home. (In fact, he was fine and actually not even in town.) A perimeter was set up around the home, the whole deal.
What makes this jump out to me is that something seemingly almost identical happened at roughly the same time at the Michigan home of Rep. Mike Rogers (R). (Our Pema Levy confirmed the story around noon today.)
No evidence that the two incidents are connected. But uncanny and more than a bit unsettling.
Botswanan President lightly wounded by over-excited Cheetah.
In case you missed it over the weekend, the FBI finally moved in and arrested James Everett Dutschke, the man now suspected of being behind those ricin-tainted letters sent to President Obama, Sen. Wicker and others. He’s scheduled to appear in court in today.
Sports isn’t normally a big part of our coverage. But where it intersects with major issues in our society that changes. A number of former players from major league sports have come out over the years. But today NBA center Jason Collins became the first major leaguer to come out while an active player in the sport.
Here are responses from the White House, Bill Clinton, Joe Kennedy and Kobe Bryant. We’ll be collecting responses over the course of the day in LiveWire.
Last week, when the White House and Congressional Democrats agreed to provide the FAA the flexibility under sequestration to avoid air traffic controller furloughs, I argued that they’d crossed one of their own bright lines, and thus made a serious tactical error.
Here’s some evidence to support that view. Read More
TPM Reader T(heda) S(kocpol) chimes in on the resolved flight delay crisis …
Just an observation. I am so often disappointed by Congress, including Democrats, that you would not think the sequester exception for the FAA would matter — but this one is still bothering me days later, even though I fly a lot (too much given how miserable it is nowdays) and the exception personally benefits me.