Blog Profile / Political Mojo
| URL : | http://motherjones.com/mojo | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Liberal | |
| Posts on Regator: | 4143 | |
| Posts / Week: | 35.2 | |
| Archived Since: | February 16, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Why "Feticide" Charges Are More Complicated Than They Seem
Prosecutors in Ohio have indicated that they will seek murder charges against Ariel Castro, the man they believe kidnapped, tortured, and imprisoned three women in his house for roughly a decade. The murder charges stem from reportsShow More Summary
Attorney General Eric Holder Orders Investigation of IRS
At a Tuesday press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he had ordered the Justice Department and FBI to investigate whether the Internal Revenue Service violated the law by subjecting conservative groups applying for tax-exempt nonprofit status to special scrutiny. Show More Summary
Did The Acting IRS Commissioner Mislead Congress?
When Lois Lerner, a top IRS official, revealed last Friday that agency staffers had singled out conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny over their potential political activities, she blamed low-level, "frontline" staffers in...Show More Summary
Minn. Passes Gay Marriage and Michele Bachmann is Sad
At 5 p.m. CST on Tuesday, Minnesota will become the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage when Gov. Mark Dayton (D) signs into law legislation that just passed the state Senate on Monday. It's a remarkable turn of events for a state...Show More Summary
Sen. John Cornyn Takes a Stand Against Migrant Deaths. Sort of.
On Monday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) published an op-ed on Fox News detailing his recent travels in the Rio Grande Valley, where he met an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador and visited a cemetery that houses the remains of unidentified migrants who died traversing the county's scorching canyons. Show More Summary
Boehner and the Benghazi Emails: Been There, Done That?
House Speaker John Boehner, according to Politico, is obsessed with Benghazi. And last week, after ABC News revealed the revised talking points crafted by the Obama administration following the September 11 attack that left four Americans dead, Boehner demanded that the administration release emails related to these talking points. Show More Summary
Electric Car Guru Elon Musk Ditches Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us Group
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and the private space travel company SpaceX, has parted ways with FWD.us, the tech-centric political group that Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg launched last month. So, too, has investor and entrepreneur David Sacks, who created the social network Yammer and financed the satiric 2005 movie Thank You for Smoking. Show More Summary
Val Kilmer Was in DC This Week Lobbying for What?!
Val Kilmer is a part-time Washington lobbyist now. Earlier this week, the film and stage actor (Batman Forever, Top Gun, The Doors, MacGruber) was on Capitol Hill advocating for the Equitable Access to Care and Health Act, which would expand Americans' ability to claim religious exemptions to Obamacare's health insurance mandate. Show More Summary
Benghazi Isn't Watergate. But the White House Didn't Tell the Full Story
The latest revelations about the Benghazi talking points—as opposed to what actually happened at the US diplomatic facility at Benghazi, where four Americans died—do not back up Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham's hyperbolic and absurdShow More Summary
Judge: Obama Admin.'s Emergency Contraception Argument Is "Something Out of an Alternate Reality"
On Friday, US District Court Judge Edward Korman went all Dikembe Mutombo on the Obama administration's request to delay implementation of his ruling that emergency contraception be made available over the counter to everyone within 30 days. Show More Summary
A Political History of The Cicadas
The "Great East Coast Cicada Sex Invasion of 2013" is upon us. After 17 years of feeding and living under the earth's surface, billions of "Brood II" cicadas will emerge this summer between Connecticut and Georgia, swarming in thick, forbidding billows of shed exoskeletons and raucous insect love-making. Show More Summary
State Department Forces Texas Law Student to Take Down Instructions for 3D-Printed Guns
Defense Distributed, the Texas-based company specializing in 3D-printed plastic firearms, took down its downloadable files on Thursday at the request of the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Control Compliance. The company...Show More Summary
Rand Paul Wants to Loosen Laws on Offshore Tax Evasion
Late Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced a bill that would repeal part of a law aimed at fighting offshore tax evasion. The law, called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, was passed in 2010 and is supposed to go into effect on January 1, 2014. Show More Summary
Want to Track Deaths Along the Border? There's an App for That.
Pima County, Arizona, has found a new tool in the quest to save lives along the US-Mexico border: data. On Monday, the county medical examiner's office and Humane Borders, a human rights group based in Tucson, unveiled the Arizona OpenGIS...Show More Summary
Koch-Linked Women's Group Takes Credit for Mark Sanford's Win
Soon after Mark Sanford, the former governor of South Carolina who resigned in disgrace in 2009, pulled off an upset win in his congressional race on Tuesday, a conservative group called the Independent Women's Voice boasted of its role in his victory. Show More Summary
Issa Tweets Story Saying Benghazi Testimony Will Yield No "Major Revelations"
This week, several top Republicans have claimed that a supposed White House administration cover-up of the September 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, would soon bring down the Obama administration, and on Wednesday, Rep. Show More Summary
Bills That Would Gut Wall Street Reform Overwhelmingly Pass House Committee
On Tuesday, three bills that would gut the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill passed the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) in decisive fashion, with just six members of the 61-member committee voting against all of them. The three bills passed over serious objections from the Obama administration. Show More Summary
This Is How the NRA Lies to Gun Owners About Obama's Agenda
The National Rifle Association, which thwarted new background check legislation in Congress, recently mailed a "survey" to gun owners with 12 questions related to gun rights, gun laws, and politics. I use scare quotes above because this...Show More Summary
GOP Senator Wants the Feds to Register Their Guns
For the first time since it rejected a compromise on expanded background checks in April, the Senate will take up gun control again Wednesday afternoon. Sort of, anyway: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has proposed two gun amendments to aShow More Summary
Republicans Flood Immigration Bill With Ridiculous Amendments
Defying expectations, Congress is poised to take a serious shot at immigration reform. A bipartisan group of eight Senators has agreed on a bill. One of the GOP's brightest young stars, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), has linked his political future to passage of the bill, and so far managed to wade through a flood of harsh criticism from the right. Show More Summary