Today we launch a new semi-regular TPM feature: My Conservative Inbox.
It’s the best of the emails from the right-wing fever swamps, unredacted and unedited. These won’t be emails from random trolls, but actual emails from various organizations, committees, advocates, and hustlers engaged in raising money, inciting action, and generally perpetuating The Crazy.
The first installment in the series is a real doozy. Take a look, my fellow patriots.
Josh Duggar’s police records were destroyed yesterday according to spokesman for the Springdale police.
A couple weeks ago, as apart of our End of the Road series on the American car and the open road, we published ‘The End of the Open Road: The Inside Story of How Hitchhiking Died‘. If you’re over 40 you probably remember during your own lifetime that there was a time when hitchhiking was a normal thing people did. Not everybody did it. But it wasn’t something that seemed crazy or marginal. And then over a few years, probably less than a decade, it was something almost nobody did. At least it was something no one did without other people thinking they were reckless or crazy.
Here’s a letter TPM Reader DP sent this weekend. It is simply marvelous: a big trove of stories about America …
I’m sorry this letter is so late but this is my story.
I was born in 1959, hitch-hiking was a big part of the first half my life. When I was in the 8th grade growing up in a nice little upper-middle class suburb south of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, my mother actually wrote a letter to the principal of my school giving me permission to hitch-hike the three miles home every day as I didn’t care for riding the bus. Did it every day, I was in 8th grade! A safe community, I never once felt in danger. Throughout my teen years in the mid-1970s I hitch-hiked all around the area; to school, the pool, my friends’ houses, the mall, into Pittsburgh, eventually expanding to see one friend at college 120 miles away and another in Columbus Ohio. Did it all the time, never thought twice about it.
In the second installment of our series of TPM Reader emails on ‘your hitchhiking story’, TPM Reader RCE shares the story that ended his days as a hitchhiker …
Here is the story that cured me of Hitch Hiking.
I hitch hiked throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a kid and teen in Pittsburgh. It was a necessity for jobs or getting up to the river where we jumped off the bridge……[yes, my friends jumped off the bridge so I did too]
Check out the genius idea to impeach Hillary now so she can’t become president.
An amazing interview with the Texas ‘militia’ leader who is on the verge of having his militia recognized as the official armed force of Orange County Texas.
You may remember that long before Pamela Geller’s Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas which came under armed attack this month, she and her fringey anti-Muslim group had been placing controversial ads in big city transit systems. Now they’re upping their game considerably, preparing to launch a new ad campaign in the DC transit system but unlike the others this ad includes the winning cartoon from the contest, which of course is a depiction of Muhammad. Fun times all around.
Supreme Court will consider case that would redefine ‘One Person, One Vote’ rule.
Former Sen. Snowe (R): Latest Republican Supreme Court challenge to Obamacare is built on lies.