- Mitt Romney's Incredible 47-Percent Denial: "Actually, I Didn't Say That"
- Gov. Christie's shameless $2M self-promotion—"Gov. Chris Christie's habit of using his public office to promote his presidential ambitions has reached a new low."
- House GOPer Ted Yoho goes birther—"If it is true, it's illegal" and "we can get rid of everything [Obama]'s done" Salon
- Mark Sanford, Appalachian Trail Lover, Pushes To Defund Appalachian Regional Commission
- Scott Hounsell, Ex-GOP Official, Arrested For Sexting Minor After Mocking Anthony Weiner's Exploits
- Daily Show on southern states thinking they can nullify federal laws they don't like
- The Onion Predicts Real Life: Republicans Block NASA's Asteroid Plan
- The GOP flips the script on Obama
- Poll: Republican Voters Want GOP To Shift — To The Right
- Paul Krugman: "Madness of the GOP Is the Central Issue of Our Time" NYT
- Is the GOP self-destructing? The Republicans can't seem to agree on anything.
- Tea party plans to abandon GOP stars
- Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Mike Enzi unlikely to win primary, according to National Journal's Top 10 list
- The last moderate: Will 'passionate pragmatist' Dale Schultz be driven out of the Wisconsin Senate?
- GOP's Long-Predicted Comeuppance Has Arrived—"Republicans have dealt with some embarrassing moments on the House floor over the past year, but none so revealing or damning as today's snafu, when they yanked a bill to fund the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development…."
- Seniors Aren't Very Happy With the Republican Party These Days
- Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
- GOP obstruction as the new normal in Washington
- Congress Threatens To Default Again
- Obama's no-Congress strategy
- CNN analysis: Congress in D.C. far less than it used to be—Instead of getting jobs, the US got this.
- Fox Host Confronts House Republicans For Running A Do-Nothing Congress
- Grimes Blasts McConnell's Obstructionism: He'd Refuse To Pass A Kidney Stone
- Romney Warns 'Our Party Would Suffer' If Government Shuts Down—Tell that to the Tea Party.
- I quit! GOP Congressman fed up with partisan posturing
- NC House Dances With Joy Over Their Accomplishments
- The Most Backward Legislature in America
- Could North Carolina Lead A 'Red-State Resurgence'?
- Texas Lawmakers Are Too Busy Focusing On Abortion Restrictions To Get Anything Else Done
- Texas Republicans Want Wendy Davis To Pay For Special Session
- FEMA approves aid for Texas fertilizer plant blast
- Texas Officials Found No Evidence Linking Paramedic To Plant Explosion—Still unknown what caused the fire that set off the fertilizer the company was allegedly negligent in storing.
- Lewis Black to Rick Perry: 'Don't mess with Texas? No, don't f**ck with New York!'
- '47 Percent Negro': Anti-Obama Protest Turns Racist In Phoenix
- Republicans' whites-only gambit will spell doom—"Party may have claimed it'd be more inclusive, but now it's reversing course. The result: It will pay a huge price." Salon
- Mostly-White Ohio Suburb Fighting To Prevent Mostly-Black Bus-Riders From Entering Community
- Cathie Adams, Former Texas GOP Chair: Immigration Reform Will Lead To Mark Of The Beast, 'End Times'
- Video: Deion Sanders' opinions on use of the N-word
- As States Rush to Restrict Voting Rights, Justice Ginsburg Says I Told You So
- Some Texas Republicans Very Open About Disliking Non-White Voting
- Vote suppression alleged in close Fla. election—"A small Florida Panhandle town best known for its annual Worm Grunting Festival is at the center of an investigation into charges the white city clerk suppressed the black vote in an election where the black mayor lost by a single vote and a black city commissioner was also ousted."
- DOJ to challenge Supreme Court decision on Voting Rights Act
- The Republican Push to Make it Harder to Vote—"Laws like North Carolina's draconian new voter-ID laws are a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. But voter backlash could be fierce."
- Rick Scott Plans To Resume Voter Purge Effort In Florida
- 5 Terrible Acts of Voter Discrimination the Voting Rights Act Prevented—But Won't Anymore
- John Oliver rips into Republicans over their 'sharknado of voter suppression'
- Dead people gave nearly $600K to campaigns since 2009—"A super PAC aiding Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's re-election reported Wednesday that it had received a $100,000 contribution from Houston home builder and GOP mega-donor Bob Perry on June 3 — nearly two months after his April 13 death."
- Reince Priebus, RNC Launch Full-Scale Attack On 'Liberal Media' Over Hillary Clinton Programs
- House GOP Defunds ACORN Yet Again, Even Though ACORN Does Not Exist—Wasting more taxpayers' time and dollars.
- Officers used police station addresses for voting
- Mike Dugeon Takes On Mike Duggan In Detroit Mayoral Race
- Amazon's Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post for $250 million—He's not the only billionaire out shopping.
- The de-newspaperization of America—"The loss of newspapers is part of the long-term destruction of urban America."
- Al Jazeera America sets own course—'Weeks ahead of its debut, Al Jazeera America is doing things the old-fashioned way. AJAM, as it's referred to by staff, is investing heavily in investigative journalism.
- IRS manual detailed DEA's use of hidden intel evidence—"Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual used by agents of the Internal Revenue Service for two years."
- Why a former NSA chief just made a big mistake by dissing hackers—That's "Former NSA Director and air quotes user General Michael Hayden" to you.
- Former NSA Chief Hayden on X-Keyscore: It's real, and it's spectacular
- Every Time The NSA Is Asked About Its Ability To Spy On Everyone... It Answers About Its Authority
- Broader Sifting of Data Abroad Is Seen By NSA NYT
- NSA snooping could cost U.S. tech companies $35 billion over three years
- US lawmaker compares Edward Snowden with Mahatma Gandhi—"A senior lawmaker from President Barack Obama's Democratic party has compared US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden with Mahatma Gandhi, saying the controversial whistleblower was engaged in a 'non-violent' act of 'civil disobedience.'"
- Russia "disappointed" bilateral talks with US cancelled
- Russia says Obama hurting himself by canceling summit over Snowden
- Greenwald: On Obama's cancellation of summit with Putin and extradition
- China applauds Russia for making the US "eat dirt" in the Snowden showdown
- Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid'—"It should be made clear that Russia has no legal, political or moral duty to turn Snowden over to American authorities.."
