After General Eric Shinseki stepped down as VA Secretary, President Obama nominated former Proctor and Gamble CEO Bob McDonald to replace him and turn things around at the VA. McDonald is a Republican. And from the looks of things he doesn’t really care who does or does not like him in Washington.
For Prime members, I want to flag your attention to a new set of changes we’ve made to the Prime edition of the site. We’ve now removed all but two of the ad placements on TPMLivewire story pages. Let us know what you think.
You gotta watch this homemade video of the effect gay marriage is NOT having in Alabama: “It looks like we’re pretty safe here in Blount County, and we’re not going to be subjected to any kind of plagues of homosexuals falling from the sky.”
“The ex-wife of the man suspected of murdering three Muslim students Tuesday near the University of North Carolina described him as a person with “no compassion” who was obsessed with a movie about a shooting rampage.” Read more.
Marcotte: Muslim student murders a wake-up call: Atheists are capable of intolerance/violence too.
I actually have some thoughts on this topic myself which I’ll return to later today.
The City of Paris has decided to sue Fox News for its bogus coverage of the Muslim “no-go” zones in the city.
Will Bobby Jindal be hauled in as an unindicted coconspirator?
It looks like Republicans may shut down the Department of Homeland Security after all.
Why the Social Security disability “crisis” the GOP is using to push for Social Security cuts might already be over.
Breaking news, the New York Times David Carr has died, aged 58 year.
Carr apparently collapsed at the Times’ offices.
From our 2012 TPM Interview with David Carr …
“The advice I always gave young reporters is congruence. Don’t be super friendly on the telephone then hang up and just nuke somebody. If it’s a hard story, you should communicate that. Congruence between the way you report and the way you write is important.”