The co-founder of the North Iowa Tea Party concedes that the photos of Hitler, Obama, and Lenin on a billboard his group put up may be distracting from the sign's intended message.
The billboard's message: "RADICAL LEADERS PREY ON THE FEARFUL & NAIVE."
--David Kurtz
State Rep. Robert Bentley wins the Republican nomination for governor in Alabama.
--David Kurtz
Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber -- whose TV ad of him personally urging the founding fathers to war was perhaps the most laughable campaign ad of 2010 -- lost in the GOP primary runoff tonight in Alabama.
--David Kurtz
Missouri GOP congressional candidate Ed Martin not backing down: Obama's big government ways put freedom of religion in jeopardy.
--David Kurtz
GOP says no to unemployment benefits, but yes to tax cuts for the rich.
--David Kurtz
The bombing in Kampala, Uganda, Sunday during the World Cup final -- which killed one American, injured 5 others and killed 75 other people -- marks the first attack by al Shabaab outside of Somalia, a senior Administration official said today.
"There are indications that al Shababb was indeed responsible for it," a senior administration official told reporters in a background briefing via conference call that I was just on. The group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, and the Administration finds that claim credible.
The administration official would not rule out a change in U.S. policy to provide military assistance to the transitional government in Somalia, which is battling an al Shabaab insurgency. "We're taking stock of recent events to determine if this is now a trend that al Shabaab will be on and will take all appropriate measures," the official said.
Not parsing words, the official described al Shabaab as a "group of murderous thugs."
--David Kurtz
The U.S. government sends a fourth bill to BP, Transocean, Anadarko and Mitsui subsidiary MOEX, this time for $99.7 million for Gulf blowout costs. BP has paid the three previous government bills, totaling $122.3 million.
--David Kurtz
Attorney General Eric Holder and Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, are in New Orleans at this hour announcing new indictments of New Orleans police officers in the Danziger Bridge shooting and alleged coverup.
Here's our interview with Perez from a few months ago.
You can read the DOJ press release on the new indictments here.
Rachel Slajda has the rundown on the new charges.
--David Kurtz
We've added a couple of dozen more photos to the George Steinbrenner slideshow, and I'm struck anew by what a larger-than-life figure he became, transcending sport to earn a spot in that strange pantheon: late 20th century pop culture celebrity:
--David Kurtz
Second Circuit strikes down FCC's indecency rules. Bono now free to say f*** on the air.
--David Kurtz
In the latest poll of the California governor's race, Meg Whitman is leading Jerry Brown 46-39.
--David Kurtz
Tom Emmer, the presumptive GOP nominee for governor of Minnesota, does a little damage control after declaring some waiters are overpaid -- by pulling a shift waiting tables.
--David Kurtz
President Obama nominates former Clinton OMB Director Jacob Lew to return to his old post, replacing Peter Orszag.
--David Kurtz
TPM Reader CB checks in from Alabama to take issue with my referring to the Republicans in today's gubernatorial runoff as two of the biggest goofs you could imagine:
--David Kurtz
A remembrance of Steinbrenner's great Yankee teams of the late 1970s in a city that was doubting its own greatness.
--David Kurtz
The U.S. says the Iranian scientist holed up in the Iranian interests section of the Pakistani embassy in Washington is free to go -- and was never held against his will.
--David Kurtz
Ben Nelson relents and Harry Reid says he'll file cloture on financial reform later today, setting up a vote on Thursday where it looks like reformers will have their 60 votes to overcome the filibuster and move the bill to the floor.
--David Kurtz
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