Editors’ Blog - 2015
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03.18.15 | 9:03 am
Well Done, Everyone

Liz Mair resigns from Scott Walker political org over those basically true and defensible (albeit snarky … gasp!) tweets about Iowa.

03.18.15 | 9:11 am
Mickey Kaus Out At Daily Caller

Mickey Kaus column at Daily Caller gets yanked for critiquing Fox — for not being Fox enough! Kaus quits.

03.18.15 | 9:44 am
Unspoken

Behind the on-going wars over abortion, birth control, clinic access, transvaginal ultrasounds and more, the hidden history of miscarriages.

03.18.15 | 9:49 am
House GOP Still Going After Social Security

New House GOP budget pretty much same as old House GOP budget — except for explicitly targeting Social Security.

03.18.15 | 12:10 pm
Your Israeli Election Explainer

How did the polls in Israeli manage to get it so wrong? I explain.

03.18.15 | 12:23 pm
He’s Right

Ed Kilgore explains how 2016 just became a wildly high-stakes election, with a big chance for the GOP to win it all.

03.18.15 | 1:56 pm
It All Started With a Fish

Feds arrest Cameron Stout of Stover, Missouri on charges of plotting to “storm Washington” and kill President Obama.

Best part of the story is this part about how Cameron met the informant, a former Aryan Nation member, who ratted him out.

The informant met Stout last week while fishing and, the affidavit said, either Stout or his friend “made a rude hand gesture towards” the informant. A confrontation took place, but tensions cooled and the men ended up hitting it off. The informant eventually invited the two to dinner at his house.

03.18.15 | 3:52 pm
Questions for Sahil?

Our chief Capitol Hill reporter, Sahil Kapur, is hosting a Live Chat at The Hive (sub req) on Friday at 1 PM. Got a question about Obamacare before the Court, that human trafficking bill, the new House budget or the Lynch nomination? Here’s the place. Sahil can answer them all. Get your questions in now and join Sahil at 1 PM on Friday.

03.18.15 | 4:54 pm
Like When Jesus Pulled Out That Firehose

San Francisco Church installs special sprinkler system to roust homeless people.

03.18.15 | 6:09 pm
Over the Horizon

TPM Reader BF on Israel, the Israeli right and looking over the horizon …

Putting the Palestinian issue front and center was, I think, a predictably sound political gambit by Bibi. As you’ve pointed out, recent defections from the right coalition on this issue have been about the realization that the status quo is not sustainable. But that is very forward looking, and as a practical matter it is easy to see why many Israelis would be making a judgment not on whether the status quo is sustainable, but rather whether the status quo is better than situations they’ve lived with in the past.

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