Michaele Salahi, who crashed a White House state dinner for India with her husband Tareq, is going to pose nude for Playboy. Salahi has already parlayed her behavior into a role on the “Real Housewives of D.C,” and plans to leave nothing more to the imagination, reports TMZ.

…not just artsy “top half” naked — we’re talking full-frontal, birthday suit naked.

Salahi’s rep tells us the shoot will go down later this month — and Michaele is “very excited” about posing down.

A Planned Parenthood clinic in Madera, California, was firebombed, just a week after a brick was thrown through the window of a local mosque (h/t

Nicholas Kristof reminds us that the current anti-Muslim narrative in America is redolent of the way Catholics, Mormons and Jews were treated here in the past.

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by Stuart Shapiro

Well things could be worse, at least Blagojevich isn’t running.  That said, he is probably costing the Democrats a seat in Illinois.  Nate Silver’s first gubernatorial

By Yashwanth Manjunath

Sharron Angle, the queen of Tea Party extremism, may be the worst hypocrite in a political party that never fails to take hypocrisy to new levels. Angle’s political... 

Muslims from the Islamic Circle of North Americaare pressing cards into the hands... 

Christine O’Donnell faces Senator Mike Castle in Delaware’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate, but she has come under intense attack from the Republican Party (h/t Think Progress). The... 

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who botched up her debate with her Democratic opponent, state Attorney General Terry...