this is an adventure

This is the terrifying moment a woman was attacked by a polar bear after jumping into its zoo enclosure. The 32-year-old leapt over bars at Berlin Zoo during the bears’ feeding time yesterday. Despite six zookeepers’ efforts to distract the four predators kept in the enclosure, the woman was bitten several times on her arms […]

If election officials started disenfranchising minority voters at a rate of 80%, headlines would scream on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post, as would civil rights leaders. And rightly so.

General feeling at the White House is that treating all banks equally hasn’t been a good idea, considering how some are more equal than others. Time for “a move that could help more clearly separate healthy banks from the weaklings,” signaling new phase of the financial crisis has arrived. Cutting off a limb, or gangrene?

NRSC head John Cornyn puts out letter signaling strong support for liberal Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter day after weak poll results. Nah, that wasn’t a coincidence. In 2002, rationale for supporting Specter over Pat Toomey in primary was holding GOP majority — not so much this time. Read more from Brad Jackson’s WHIP blog.