When you start a statement saying “Obviously rape is awful …” you probably need to end the statement before you go any further …
"Obviously rape is awful…" says Delegate Brian Kurcaba, R-Monongalia. "What is beautiful is the child is that could come from this."
— David Gutman (@davidlgutman) February 6, 2015
A list of all the pols who’ve either fibbed about military service or told phony baloney stories about their close calls in trips to the front line – Reagan, Hillary Clinton, Joe McCarthy, Mark Kirk, Dick Blumenthal. The list is endless and here it is.
I was excited to see my friend Samhita Mukhopadhyay’s byline on an overnight ed memo. And here’s the piece, her first for TPM: Why Mindy Kaling Refuses to Talk about Race—and Why I Care So Much
An open letter from US Vets: Dear America, It’s Time To Let Women Serve In All Combat Roles. No Exceptions.
Under the bus, John. Israeli official suggests Boehner misled Netanyahu about the speech.
Is Jeb Bush having to play catch up on hating Obamacare? (hint: yes)
There’s talk today of a poll boomlet for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. And he’s clearly demonstrating that he’s serious about running for President.
It’s probably a given that I’m not a huge fan of Scott Walker’s. And I do not think he’d be a terribly strong general election candidate. But I do think, as I mentioned a few months ago, that he’s much stronger than is generally understood and a more viable candidate than most of the other potential candidates who get vastly more coverage and speculation.
It looks those investigations might end up sinking Chris Christie after all.
Think the Netanyahu speech lead up is going well? Now even Abe Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), one of the oldest and most respected institutions of American Jewry, is saying the speech should be canceled. Foxman has run the ADL for almost thirty years. In the American Jewish community, it does not get anymore establishment than that.
Did you know that Martin Luther King’s mother was gunned down by an assassin five years after her son?