Morning Bits
22.05.12
[Harry Truman] would side with Josh Block, who blew the whistle on rabidly anti-Israel and borderline anti-Jewish statements on the left, and who for his efforts has been expelled from membership in the Truman National Security Project.”
Naughty . “A new Iowa non-profit organization is circulating an online petition calling on the Federal Election Commission to investigate Family Leader CEO Bob Vander Plaats for potentially illegal campaign coordination. [Rick] Santorum on Wednesday said Vander Plaats earlier this fall told him that he needed money to promote his eventual endorsement of a presidential candidate.”
Nice . TNR provides a public service in an effort to prevent many Republicans and the state of Iowa from shaming themselves: “For years, Ron Paul published a series of newsletters that dispensed political news and investment advice, but also routinely indulged in bigotry. Here’s a selection of some especially inflammatory passages, with links to scanned images of the original documents in which they appeared.”
Source: Washington Post (blog)