Benjy Sarlin has a fascinating look for us at the undocumented immigrant community in Washington, D.C. Give it a read.

Biden: “The one thing the NRA has done so well lately is the disinformation.” Watch.

There were at least some signs during the day yesterday that the NRA might not go full-bore in opposing the Manchin-Toomey background checks compromise. By last night, that had all changed.

Rove Group tells FEC to go jump in a lake with its new document request.

North Carolina lawmaker Michele Presnell is against allowing Islamic prayers to be conducted before a legislative meeting because she “doesn’t condone terrorism.”

Yesterday morning Sen. Rand Paul went over to Howard University. And it didn’t go terribly well. One might say that’s only to be expected in a case like this – perhaps even the whole point – since the aim is to break the ice between communities either antagonistic to each other or thoroughly out of communication. But it’s more an example of what happens when a staunch conservative steps out of the GOP’s tightly-drawn racial nonsense bubble and hits an audience not dying to be convinced that the GOP’s problems with non-whites are the results of boffo misunderstandings about a Republican party that is actually the best thing that ever happened to black people. Read More

Local Democrat in Kentucky claims two members of Progress Kentucky bragged to him that they recorded the Mitch McConnell campaign strategy session, the NPR station in Louisville is reporting.

The account of how the Mitch McConnell strategy session allegedly came to be recorded by progressive activists offered by a local Dem is pretty comical: two local progressive activists could hear the strategy session from a hallway outside the room where it was being held, at McConnell campaign headquarters, and simply recorded it.

So far, the two guys who reportedly did the recording aren’t talking so take this all with a grain of salt. The account comes from a low-level Democratic Party county official named Jacob Conway who tells the NPR station that Shawn Reilly and Curtis Morrison bragged to him after the fact about having done it. (Conway also talked to Fox News a short time ago.) Reilly is a founder of Progress Kentucky and Morrison is involved in the group, too, WFPL reports.

Was it illegal? Read More

Wonder if Greg Walden realized that when he called President Obama’s budget a “shocking attack on seniors” for including Chained CPI he was implicating nearly half of all House Republicans, including four of his NRCC deputies.

Global idiot community hit hard by collapse of ‘Bitcoin’ internet currency.