The fun and the real of Chris Christie

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Cory Booker have made a parody video. From the New Jersey press:

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Fantastic local report of the day: the New Hampshire 'Sieg Heil' apology

In the New Hampshire legislature today, Republican State Representative Steve Vaillancourt was tossed from the chamber for shouting "Sieg Heil" and waving -- or not waving -- his hand in a Nazi salute. Vaillancourt was objecting to limitations on debate over a voter ID bill. The …

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Mississippi lawmaker: Coat hanger abortions might come back. 'But hey...'

Last month, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed a law requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges in a local hospital. Mississippi has one clinic left, where, because of the state's anti-abortion climate, they commute to work from Alabama. It's no secr …

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'And the Delaware results are in! They're in!'***

How about we do elections coverage like this from now on?*** ***Manchester City wins English Premier League title with two goals in stoppage time.

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'Make no mistake about it, you are dumb'

Among all the big names sharing their sagacity with America's freshly minted  college grads this week (President Obama, Mitt Romney, Michelle Obama, Colin Powell et al.)  was award-harvesting film/TV writer Aaron Sorkin, who spoke at his alma mater, Syracuse, yest …

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Wisconsin gov could still bend space-time continuum

Remember when Mitt Romney said the U.S. needs to be adding 500,000 jobs a month, but it turns out that kind of job growth almost never happens? This weekend, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker wrestled with his pledge to create 250,000 jobs in his state during his first term. So fa …

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Happy Mother's Day, from Trayvon's mom

If you want to see strength and dignity in the face of devastating loss, check out the new ad from Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton:

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Echoes of Wisconsin

Is it just me, or does this third-party ad for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker come with an arguably literary echo?

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Gov. Walker thanks public employees for their 'sacrifice,' would like not to be recalled, please

With his Democratic recall challenger in place, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker took to the Twitter machine today. You almost wouldn't know he's the same Governor Walker who stripped public workers' union rights and then brought home the nation's worst record for jobs.

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TRMS challenge: The half-hearted endorsement

Rick Santorum made a limp attempt to beat his verbal swords into plowshares in a deeply underwhelming endorsement of arch enemy Mitt Romney. At midnight. In an e-mail. Does this sound like an endorsement to anyone?

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The moral of Maurice Sendak

The great children's author Maurice Sendak has died at 83. That's the headline, but I'd rather think of the news as being "Maurice Sendak lived." A son of immigrant Brooklyn, he lived long enough and vividly enough to give the world books of hallucinatory wonder, to give us Mick …

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Caption contest, now with gargoyles

Diane Hedrick of Cove, Oregon, sends us this. You know what to do. (How to send us stuff and increase human happiness.)

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Mad as hell about Ron Paul in Maine

As Steve was saying earlier, Ron Paul backers took over the state conventions in Nevada and Maine this weekend. In each case, the Paul crowd captured a majority of the delegates and made the Republican mainstream really, really mad. Mad as in here come the legal challenges mad.  …

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The first lady of tequila

Just in time for Cinco de Mayor, our producer Isabel Lopez, who is cool, profiles the “first lady of tequila” Bertha González Nieves. CEO and Co-Founder of Casa Dragones Tequila Company, González Nieves was the first woman to be recognized as a &ld …

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Chart imitates life: What happened to you

We haven't had this low a percentage of working-age Americans actually working or trying to get a job since the early 1980s (chart above). In April alone, more than half a million people gave up, which is scary. Meanwhile, productivity continues to rise while wages stagnate (cha …

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Newt's farewell address: Our challenge winners

The prospect of writing Newt Gingrich's farewell to the 2012 presidential race clearly threw gasoline on your creative fires. Your hard work yielded an embarrassment of Newt-iful goodness, making it nearly impossible to choose, but here are a few submissions that stood out: Sam  …

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When the scary guy is actually scary

As part of covering Arizona's anti-immigration politics, we've reported on former Republican State Senator Russell Pearce and his sometime friend, Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready. Now police in Arizona say Ready shot and killed four people in his extended family yesterday, and then killed h …

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Don't tread on her, either

Your humble Virginia license plate correspondent still owes you a roundup of suggested messages for Virginia's new "Don't Tread on Me" license plate. Meanwhile, Karen Dunnam of Grand Rapids, Michigan, sends this picture of herself with a suit and sign she made herself. She write …

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TRMS writing challenge: Newt's farewell address

Let it be woven into the tapestry of human events that on this Second Day of May, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twelve, American Colossus Newton Leroy Gingrich graciously bowed out of the race to become President of these United States. And a nation wept. Where else w …

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Pic: Boom is for duckies

Suwin Chan writes from Westerly, Rhode Island:

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Wisconsin Dems make an issue of equal pay

Today's sign that the recall election of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is as much about national politics as politics in Wisconsin comes from state Democrats' "Pocket Change" ad. Verbate:

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Occupy Cleveland cancels May Day plans

The FBI arrested five suspects last night in what law enforcement describes as a plot to blow up a bridge near Cleveland today. The local Cleveland Scene screengrabs some of their Facebook pages, including the one belonging to Douglas Wright, above. On the right, the arrests are …

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Detroit kids start 'Freedom School'

Part of what you're supposed to do in high school is re-create the world. You start breaking away from the rules adults put on you, and you make the world new. That's your job. Your community, meanwhile, is supposed to give you a safe place to go to school and a decent education …

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Seen in Virginia: You PRO-GIRL

Your humble Virginia license plate correspondent has been very, very, very busy, too busy to gather up all your suggestions yet for Virginia's new "Don't Tread on Me" license plate. They're genius. Hopefully I can get that together soon. Meanwhile, Christine D'Amato sends the on …

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Michigan, this is your democracy

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers today rejected a petition drive that would have put the state's emergency manager law on the November ballot. The board's staff had reported (pdf) that the petitioners had collected enough signatures, and recommended (pdf) that the board de …

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