Editors’ Blog - 2014
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10.07.14 | 2:33 pm
Repression of the Self

My thoughts from last night on hearing about a college friend and rabbi who announced to his congregation that he is getting divorced because he’s gay.

10.07.14 | 3:01 pm
Social Engineering Gets New Look on Right

Limbaugh proposes mass marriage of single women, via GOP dating service, as solution to gender gap.

10.07.14 | 3:47 pm
Mysterious Disappearing Ferguson Voters

So 3,287 new Ferguson voter registrations just turned into 128.

10.07.14 | 11:29 pm
Self-Government Now in Doubt

Senate candidate says ISIL is plotting with Mexican drug cartels to attack Arkansas.

10.07.14 | 11:34 pm
Police Harassment for White People?

At traffic stop, Indiana state trooper asks motorist: Do you accept Jesus Christ as your savior?

10.08.14 | 8:48 am
What America Needs To Understand About Ebola

An American who has lived and worked in Liberia on why we should stop freaking out about ebola.

10.08.14 | 10:27 am
Dudes& Chicks Today, Dudes & Chicks Tomorrah, Dudes & Chicks Forevah

GOP far right girds loins, prepares for long twilight dog-whistling struggle against the scourge of gay marriage. Ed Kilgore has the details.

10.08.14 | 10:46 am
Today In Undermining The Sanctity Of Marriage

Justice Anthony Kennedy has for the moment halted gay marriages in Idaho.

Meanwhile, some confusion over what exactly has happened in South Carolina. A state judge has apparently begun accepting applications for same sex-marriage licenses in defiance of that state’s ban, but contrary to some reports has not actually issued any licenses yet. The clerk in South Carolina tells TPM there is a mandatory 24-hour waiting period for all marriage licenses. The presumption is licenses will issue once the 24 hours expires, unless further legal maneuvering puts a halt to it.

10.08.14 | 11:03 am
PollTracker #2

It’s day two of our daily week day count-down of the most salient and noteworthy polls of the last 24 hours. As I said yesterday, if you want to be alerted the moment a poll is released in a race you’re following, download our PollTracker Mobile app (available on iOS and Android.) So to the polls. Not much dramatic today on the most watched Senate races. We do have another poll from the Kansas Senate race though and it seems to confirm that incumbent Senator Pat Roberts is likely to lose to Greg Orman, the independent candidate who people on both sides are assuming would caucus with the Dems.

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10.08.14 | 11:41 am
Great Moments in Open Carry

Man open carrying his new gun has his gun stolen at gun point.