At a townhall in Cincinnati, Republican Congressman Steve Chabot decided that people should not be allowed to videotape the event and had a police officer seize the camera of citizens recording the public event of a public figure inside of a public building: What is even worse is the excuse given by Chabot’s spokesman: Schwartz […]
Justice Clarence Thomas has been breaking the rules of the court for 13 years by not reporting his wife’s income. That income shows a direct conflict of interest with cases Thomas has ruled on, including Citizens United. As Jonathon Turley points out: For many, the incident will be cited as evidence of how toothless these […]
Shorter Tim Profitt: “How dare she put her head under my foot when I’m suffering from back pain!”
And guess what? It’s no “lefty activist”: A female Kentucky Tea Party activist who wishes to remain anonymous has identified the man who wrestled a female MoveOn.org activist to the ground after the debate last night. In an email to me and copied to another Tea Party activist, she says that his name is Mike […]
Unbelievable: I’m hesitant to jump to conclusions about what actually happened in this kind of made-for-TV publicity stunt. Who were these “Rand Paul supporters” who roughed up MoveOn.org activist Lauren Valle? Why did police question Valle, and not the guys who roughed her up? At any rate, I remember when Alex Jones sicced a mob […]
This time of the year one of my daily reads is the National Hurricane Center’s website. It’s just part of being a weather junky. Today I was presented with this: That’s a tropical depression forming way out in the Atlantic and has a 60% chance of developing into a Cyclone over the next 48 hours. […]
Morning Joe is still stuck on Massa. Really, it appears that Joe has some inner regret for not being one of Massa’s targets, but something they have been saying has really got me going. All morning they have been comparing Eric Massa to Mark Foley. Massa is accused of making sexual advances towards male staffers […]
Looks like the network news is in some trouble: “I just looked out at the next five years and was concerned that we could not sustain doing what we were doing,” said David Westin, the president of ABC News, as he explained the decision last week to jettison up to 400 staff members, a quarter […]
Today is the day that the “holy grail” report of prisoner abuse is supposed to be released, highlighting torture techniques used at Gitmo. So far the leaked details have been very disturbing. On the heels of this release we also find out that a Justice Department report is suggesting to open/reopen a bunch of investigations: […]
Levi Johnston had this to say about Sarah Palin’s resignation: “She had talked about how nice it would be to take some of this money people had been offering us and you know just run with it, say ‘forget everything else,’” he said. Needless to say, this has sparked a war with Palin. Palin’s spokesperson […]