Blog Profile / Political Mojo
| URL : | http://motherjones.com/mojo | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Liberal | |
| Posts on Regator: | 4156 | |
| Posts / Week: | 35.2 | |
| Archived Since: | February 16, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Law Professor John Yoo Apparently Unaware of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
p.mininav-header-text {background-color: #000000 !important} More MoJo coverage of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings How the FBI in Boston May Have Pursued the Wrong "Terrorist" READ: Here Are the Federal Charges Against Boston Bombing...Show More Summary
We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for April 26, 2013
Flames light up the sky as a Marine launches a PL-87 Stinger Missile at a flying drone over Onslow Beach on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 16, 2013. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Cory D. Polom.
Corn on MSNBC: Luntz's Gripe with Rush Limbaugh
A tape of GOP consultant Frank Luntz knocking Rush Limbaugh, released today by Mother Jones, indicates just how tired the party might be of its polarized membership. Listen to DC bureau chief David Corn discuss the video and its ramifications...Show More Summary
Chris Christie Is Right About Parents and Violent Video Games—but His Policy Is Wrong
New Jersey governor Chris Christie has fashioned himself as a GOP maverick of late, upsetting people in his own party almost as often as political opponents. From praising President Obama's response to Hurricane Sandy last year, to seeking...Show More Summary
Florida Tea Party's Unemployment Tests Get Flunked by the Feds
Tea partiers revere the Constitution, which they often study like the Bible, in small groups. But somehow all that devotion to the Founders' original thinking doesn't seem to have much of an impact on their ability to follow its requirements once tea partiers take power in elected office. Show More Summary
GOP Takes Another Shot at Derailing Obama's Progressive Labor Nominee
Republicans have been trying for weeks to block President Barack Obama's nomination of Thomas Perez, the chief of the civil rights division at the Justice Department, to run the Labor Department. They haven't succeeded yet. But they're...Show More Summary
Liberal Super-PAC's First 2014 Target: Michele Bachmann
CREDO Super-PAC, the group that spent nearly $3 million to oust five conservative congressmen in 2012, has announced its first target of the 2014 midterms: Tea party firebrand Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). The super-PAC says it will...Show More Summary
After MoJo Story, Treasury Department Clarifies Its Stance on Financial Reform Bills
On Wednesday, Mother Jones ran a story on how newly-minted Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is reluctant to take a stand against a series of Wall Street deregulation bills now being considered by the House Financial Services Committee. After...Show More Summary
We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for April 25, 2013
Pfc. Ivan Ibarra and Pfc. Alfredo Hidalgo, both of Company C "Chaos," 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, Combined Task Force 4-2, provide security during a clearing operation April 10 in the Panjwa'i district of Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kimberly Hackbarth, 4th SBCT, 2nd Infantry Division Public Affairs Office.
8 Things You Won't See At The George W. Bush Presidential Library
"Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful." —Former President George W. Bush, July 2012 On Thursday, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum will be officially dedicated at Southern Methodist University, a school attended by the likes of former First Lady Laura Bush, actor Powers Boothe, and Kourtney Kardashian. Show More Summary
Chart: Here Are the 18 House Democrats Who Haven't Endorsed Marriage Equality
Since mid-March, when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsed marriage equality in a YouTube video, 11 Democratic senators have formalized their "evolution" on the issue in a series of interviews, statements, Facebook posts, and Tumblr entries. Show More Summary
Iowa GOPer: "Let's Hear it For Rising CO2 on Earth Day!"
No one celebrates Earth Day quite like the Republican party of Iowa. On Monday, as environmental activists across the world called for increased attention (or any attention at all, as the case may have it) to the effects of anthropogenic climate change, state Rep. Show More Summary
We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for April 24, 2013
A U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter lands at Camp Al-Galail, Qatar, to drop off several Marines assigned to Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, for Exercise Eagle Resolve April 21, 2013. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kenny Holston/Released.
"Go to Sleep or I Will Call the Planes."
A week ago, activist Farea Al-Muslimi was live-tweeting the aftermath of a drone attack on his childhood village of Wessab in Yemen. Monday, he was testifying before a Senate subcommittee on the legality and impact of the Obama administration's targeted killing program. Show More Summary
Lew Won't Adopt Geithner's Stand Against Wall Street Deregulation Bills
Last year, then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner slammed a series of bills that would have deregulated Wall Street banks. But this year, as a slate of nearly identical bills is being considered by the House Financial Services Committee,...Show More Summary
Bulletproof Clothing for America's Schoolkids? Seriously?
The collapse of the Senate's gun control efforts last week has left parents to wonder what, if anything, might protect their children from another Newtown-style massacre. The world's best-known high-fashion bulletproof clothing company has an answer: discreet kid-sized body armor woven into school backpacks, t-shirts, and puffer vests. Show More Summary
What We Know About the Tsarnaev Brothers' Guns
p.mininav-header-text {background-color: #000000 !important} More MoJo coverage of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings How the FBI in Boston May Have Pursued the Wrong "Terrorist" READ: Here Are the Federal Charges Against Boston Bombing...Show More Summary
Facebook Shoots Down Giveaways of Assault Weapons
The months since the Newtown massacre have seen an explosion of gun and ammo giveaways on Facebook. For some gun enthusiasts, scoring a free AR-15 assault weapon has been as easy as clicking a "like" button on the Facebook page of a firearms marketer such as 556 Tactical, Pittsburgh Tactical, or AR15News.com. Show More Summary
Rand Paul Agrees Tsarnaev Is No 'Enemy Combatant'
It hasn't made as many headlines as his marathon filibuster over drones, but Monday Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told Fox Business host Neil Cavuto Monday that he supports trying Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in court...Show More Summary
Study: Siri Doesn't Make Texting While Driving Any Safer
April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, a time when safety and transportation experts beg, plead and cajole Americans to put down their phones while driving, lest they become a murderer behind the wheel. It's a thankless job, as...Show More Summary