In the House, many conservatives don’t think Fred Upton is is conservative enough to run the Energy and Commerce Committee.
David Headley, an American man known to U.S. authorities as a convicted drug dealer with ties to radical Muslims, was able to slip through the cracks to help plan the Mumbai hotel attacks of 2008
NPR does another touching remembrance of a fallen soldier, this time it is of Sgt. 1st Class Ronald Grider was killed in Afghanistan in September on his 30th birthday. The Wonk Monkey is not sure why more news organizations aren’t paying these kinds of tributes to those who have lost their lives for their country.
Officials report that the would like to start pulling troops from Afghanistan in 2014.
Some people are trying to help homeowners who are on the verge of foreclosure.
Michael Bennett, Democratic Senator from Colorado, talks about what he would like to accomplish in the next session of Congress.
In his overseas trip President Obama criticizes Israel for their increased settlement builds and China for artificially devaluing their currency in order to drive up exports. Meanwhile, he receives criticism for the Federal Reserves recent moves.
No one is going to face charges for destroying the CIA torture tapes.
Cruise trip from hell.
Lol, Alvin Green is thinking about running for president.
Growing protests over the Feds decision to de-value US currently is growing.
Once again employers hands are getting tied, this time they are being told they cannot fire someone over a Facebook post.
Oh no, we are running out of chocolate.
Politifact Ratings of the Day:
- It is Mostly True that Georgia and other states with weak gun laws have more crime.
- It Mostly True that "The interest on the debt now is going to approach in the next couple of years ... what we spend in the national defense budget."
- And it is Barely True that About 1 in 10 public school teachers in Wisconsin would have been laid off without federal stimulus funds.
To illustrate his point about the benefit of stimulus funding, Doyle argues that 1 in 10 public school teachers -- out of some 60,000 in the state -- would be out of work without the stimulus money. But his math is based on an assumption that teachers would have been targeted at the same proportion as support staff and ignores the practical realities of how the money came in during two budget years, which means some of the jobs may have been saved twice.
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