May 31, 2013
We started off this morning with a look at the startling National Journal article, "Gun Deaths Since Newtown Now Surpass Number of Americans Killed in Iraq." But as startling as that is, it's based on Slate's crowd-sourced and "necessarily incomplete" interactive database cataloging gun deaths since 12/14, and...
May 30, 2013
Fox sees doom in female breadwinners. #GunFAIL update. Armando's roundup, including: 1Q GDP revisions; comments on takes from Garance Franke-Ruta and E.J. Dionne on Clinton versus Obama "scandals"; the latest in the IRS & AP stories; the nomination of James Comey to head the FBI, and; the plight of Beatriz,...
May 29, 2013
Greg Dworkin was back with us, but only for today. Busy week for him! But he was on hand to discuss the Bachmann retirement, today's somewhat laughable Tom Friedman article, GMU's Center for Media and Public Affairs' analysis of Politifact, and the quarter to one-third of poll respondents who are routinely willing to...
May 28, 2013
Seems like the context of the IRS story is changing bit by bit. The White House tees up a filibuster fight over judicial nominations, preparing up to three appointments to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Since that was the court that stood the last century of recess appointments practice on its head, we discuss...
May 23, 2013
Greg Dworkin discusses the lingering controversies, including some interesting variations in polling on the AP phone records. Also: the strange case of Josh Barro. The IRS story moves into a new phase, wherein Republicans insist that President Obama had to have known about what a field office of an independent agency...