New mugshot to become key part of the arcana of the ‘Shoe Truth’ movement.
Appeals Court crushes lawsuit claiming Senate filibuster is unconstitutional.
I think TPM Reader RC is imputing naiveté where what I was expressing was more a matter cognitive dissonance on latter-day Ron Paul and his role as – no other way to say it – prominent figure in far-right white nationalist politics. But powerful personal account from RC …
I must take issue with you on this comment, although I certainly understand it:
“Personally, I have to say that it’s always been difficult for me to square this history with the kindly old guy many of us got to know in recent years.”
This is in fact a summation of the entire conservative view that “nice” people can’t be racists, or that only outwardly vicious people can be called such. It’s problematic and it’s more than a little naïve.
It’s thrilling to have a weekly blog on TPM – at least for the next nine weeks while our series, Years of Living Dangerously, runs on Showtime. As Josh noted a few days ago, the two of us go back to when his office was a corner table in the Starbuck’s north of Dupont Circle and he wrote TPM all by himself.
Early along, when my partner, Joel Bach, and I were searching for strong characters who could help tell the climate change story, I hopped on a plane for Lubbock, Texas, to meet Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, who teaches climate science at Texas Tech. I’d heard a lot about Katharine – a distinguished climate scientist who’s also an Evangelical Christian.
Must read from TPM Reader SB …
I know from my personal experience that people with strong racial and other biases are unlikely to admit those biases even to themselves. I grew up in a Republican family. My parents voted the straight Republican ticket in every election. They never espoused hatred toward blacks, hispanics, Jews, or any other group.
For those who watch these things the exquisitely fragile glass jaw of the Brian Ross investigative unit at ABC News has been an extremely open secret for roughly forever. And now it seems like ABC’s (extremely ill-considered fight) to try to force its way into a Pulitzer Prize could bring it all out. Here’s the story – where they’re burned scorchingly by the folks they’re trying to take the prize from.
For those life forms that subsist on schadenfreude, this could be the feast of all feasts.
We’d hoped to open the beta testing phase of our new comments system to the larger community this evening. We just about got there. But there was one more performance enhancement we wanted to do before we did so. We hope to have the beta larger for the whole community tomorrow morning.
Mitchell, the beloved pilot on CNN’s endless missing plane flight simulator segments, fired for “shaming” Canada.
So Friday we got a demand letter from a anti-immigrant hate group down in Arizona, threatening to sue us for identifying them as a “hate group”. After our lawyers sounded the all clear, we reported deeper on the story and discovered the big problem is the top cheese in the organization, Glenn Spencer, thinks the persistent “hate group” label is preventing him from selling his crack new anti-immigrant border technology to the feds. Here’s the story.
Mayor of Marionville, Mo faces impeachment after telling local media he agreed with Jewish Center shooter Frazier Glenn Miller’s views, if not his actions.
When contacted yesterday by TPM’s Tom Kludt Mayor Clevenger said he was done discussing his agreement with Miller’s views.