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Gabriel Gomez Surges From 1 Point Down to 7 Points Down

This weekend's Boston Globe poll of the Massachusetts Senate race appears to have stamped out the factless "Gabriel Gomez surge!" narrative. You get one poll showing the Republican down by 11, running far behind Scott Brown's campaigns with women and ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Ed Markey, Gabriel Gómez, Stu Rothenberg, Charlie Cook

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 25 mins ago - 1 reports

Republican Party (US)

Today's Thing That Will Blow Up Immigration Reform: The Hastert Rule

File this under "obvious things we're going to choose to freak out over." At the weekly House GOP leadership presser, John Boehner waved off the idea that the Democrats could join a rump of Republicans and pass an immigration bill in the House -- which ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Immigration Reform, Immigration, John Boehner

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Republicans Can't Say that Obama Was Behind the IRS's Tea Party Campaign, but Pollsters Can

Last night, on the O'Reilly Factor, Fox News's most beloved host asked House Oversight dragon-slayer Rep. Trey Gowdy about the latest in the IRS story. "Do you think this was orchestrated by the Democratic Party or the White House?" asked O'Reilly. ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - 10 hours ago]

Entities: White House, Tea Party Movement, Josh Green, Donor

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Antonin Scalia

SCOTUS Strikes Down AZ's ID Requirement for Voter Registration

The high court is taking its sweet time getting to the era-defining voting rights, affirmative action, and gay marriage cases. If this term was "The Return of the King," today would have been the scene in which the hobbits jumped on a bed -- a non-ending. ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Federal, Antonin Scalia, Affirmative Action

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Michael Burgess

Opening Act: The Fetus With the Hand Between Its Legs

Anti-gun rallies under the "Occupy the NRA" banner don't seem to be going anywhere. The protest drew three members of Organizing for Action, a nonprofit group that supports President Barack Obama's agenda, to the National Orange Show Events Center. ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Michael Burgess, Occupy the NRA, sonogram, Wheeze, Herman Cain

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Good News! We're Supposed to Like the New President of Iran!

For eight years, the public and political face of Iran was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran hawks in the United States couldn't have asked for a better punching bag. He was diminuitive, smarmy, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, 9/11-denying, rambling and unpopular ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Avi Issacharoff, Tehran, Israel

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

American Dreams and Dynamic Wombs, and Other Stories

Today saw the unlimited-edition release of two new stories from me. The first reviews American Dreams in China , a drama that closely resembles The Social Network and has become a massive hit in the Middle Kingdom. The message: Copyright theft in the ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: American Dreams Ltd, China, Social Network

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Poll: Support for Intervening in Syria Falls From Really Low to Mind-Bogglingly Low

That's some trendline in the Pew poll question about Syria. The pollster has been asking people, for 15 months, whether they're on board with sending aid to Syrian rebel groups. What started as a +34 point margin for "no" is now a +50 margin for no. ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Syria, Bush Administration, Obama Administration, Escalation

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Snowden Veers Into Useful Idiocy

Hypothetical question time. It's early June. You are a defender of America's spying programs -- you're Dianne Feinstein, let's say. There's fresh new heat on those programs thanks to a leak that at first is anonymous, but after a couple of days is revealed ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: US National Security Agency, Dianne Feinstein, China, Network Operations, Peter King

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Opening Act: 17 Points

CNN finds voters under 30 cooling on the president quickly—since the emergence of the NSA story, a 17-point drop in approval numbers from them. The Boston Globe polls the Markey-Gomez Senate race and finds an 11-point lead for the Democrat. Skeptics ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Amanda Marcotte, Anti-Obamacare, Josh Rogin, Martha Coakley

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

What Does Mike Gravel Think of This NSA Business?

I spoke with former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel,who's most famously known for reading part of the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record after Daniel Ellsburg had leaked them to news outlets. It should surprise no one that he's a big fan of Edward ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Mike Gravel, US National Security Agency, Rand Paul, Mark Udall, Saxby Chambliss

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Did Colorado's Liberal Experiment Pave the Way for Gov. Tancredo?

The 2010 election in Colorado was a mess for Republicans. While their comrades in Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona waged brilliant comebacks, Colorado Republicans accidentally nominated their least electable candidates for governor and U.S. Senate. The ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Tom Tancredo, John Hickenlooper, Elections, Quinnipiac University

Quotes

"Part of the Senate bill's problem is that it creates a new pathway, and it's expedited," said Sen. Rand Paul. "I think we get rid of all of the problems if we get rid of the pathway, no new visa status, you just give people work visas and let 'em get inin line."

Today's Thing That Will Blow Up Immigration Reform: The Hastert Rule [Published Slate - David Weigel - 5 hours ago]

..."Why did the IRS target these groups?" bellowed the NRSC in a recent attack. "According to the New York Times, because Senate Democrats like Jeanne Shaheen pressured them to."

Republicans Can't Say that Obama Was Behind the IRS's Tea Party Campaign, but Pollsters Can [Published Slate - David Weigel - 10 hours ago]

Immigration restrictionists are pitching a fit about an anonymous Marco Rubio aide's Kinsley gaffe -- his/her assertion that "there are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer." It's in print, it's anonymous -- has it actually traveled as a story outside conservative media?

Opening Act: The Fetus With the Hand Between Its Legs [Published Slate - David Weigel - 11 hours ago]

...perceived as more moderate yet still has the confidence of Khamenei, serves the regime in the best way," Israeli professor Sol Shahvar tells him. "Externally, Iran today is in a very difficult situation with regard to sanctions and its international standing. A conservative president would only have increased Tehran’s isolation in the world. A victory for someone from the ‘moderate stream,’ however, will immediately bring certain countries in the international community to call for ‘giving a chance to dialogue with the Iranian moderates."

Good News! We're Supposed to Like the New President of Iran! [Published Slate - David Weigel - Jun 17 2013]

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Gabriel Gomez Surges From 1 Point Down to 7 Poi... [Published Slate - David Weigel - 4 hours ago] This weekend's Boston Globe poll of the Massachusetts Senate race appears to have stamped out the factless "Gabriel Gomez surge!" narrative. You get one poll showing the Republican down by 11, running far behind Scott Brown's campaigns with women and ...
Today's Thing That Will Blow Up Immigration Ref... [Published Slate - David Weigel - 5 hours ago] File this under "obvious things we're going to choose to freak out over." At the weekly House GOP leadership presser, John Boehner waved off the idea that the Democrats could join a rump of Republicans and pass an immigration bill in the House -- which ...
Republicans Can't Say that Obama Was Behind the... [Published Slate - David Weigel - 10 hours ago] Last night, on the O'Reilly Factor, Fox News's most beloved host asked House Oversight dragon-slayer Rep. Trey Gowdy about the latest in the IRS story. "Do you think this was orchestrated by the Democratic Party or the White House?" asked O'Reilly. ...
Opening Act: The Fetus With the Hand Between It... [Published Slate - David Weigel - 11 hours ago] Anti-gun rallies under the "Occupy the NRA" banner don't seem to be going anywhere. The protest drew three members of Organizing for Action, a nonprofit group that supports President Barack Obama's agenda, to the National Orange Show Events Center. ...
American Dreams and Dynamic Wombs, and Other St... [Published Slate - David Weigel - Jun 18 2013] Today saw the unlimited-edition release of two new stories from me. The first reviews American Dreams in China , a drama that closely resembles The Social Network and has become a massive hit in the Middle Kingdom. The message: Copyright theft in the ...