Police say that Joe Miller’s security team couldn’t come up with the name of anyone that arrested journalist had ‘assaulted’.
Want to get a snapshot of where all the key races are as of today? We’ve put together a slide show of the trend graphs, as of today, of all the key races. Take a look.
Here’s a little end of the week comic relief for you. On MSNBC today former Speaker Denny Hastert got asked why we’re not seeing John Boehner doing much campaigning around the country. Is he too unpopular? Hastert did his best to explain — something to do with party demographics make it really hard to find flights to Republicans districts. Video after the jump … Read More
A curious story out of one of the corners of the federal regulatory infrastructure. A retiring administrative judge at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission dropped a bombshell on his way out the door recently: He alleged that his fellow judge struck a deal two decades ago never to rule in favor of investors and for 20 years has kept his promise. And at least through December 2000, investors in front of him had in fact always lost. But the retiring judge making the claim has some credibility problems of his own, so it’s hard to make sense of exactly what has been going on. But a fascinating story worth following.
Interesting comparison by Greg Sargent of the amount of undisclosed-donor cash being spent by right-wing groups ($75 million) versus left-wing groups (less than $10 million).
Former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe describes surviving the plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) — and then waiting for hours to be discovered and rescued: Read More
After first threatening not to show up for the second debate with Jack Conway, Rand Paul has just announced that he will in fact show up for the second and final scheduled debate.
Texas congressional challenger Stephen Broden says violent uprising is “on the table” if election doesn’t go well enough for the Tea Party.
To paraphrase Jesse Jackson, I think God may be finished with Jeff Perry, or at least his run for Congress. You may not have heard of him but he’s running for Congress to succeed Bill Delahunt in Massachusetts 10th district. Back a couple decades ago when he was a police officer he was in the business of enabling and then covering for one of those crooked cops who views it as one of the perks of the job doing unwarranted strip searches of pubescent teenage girls.
The basic outlines of the story have been out there for months. In at least two instances, in one case with a 14 year old and in another with a 16 year old, Perry was on the scene as a police officer under his command, Scott Flanagan, decided that in order to find out whether the girl in question was hiding any drugs he had to search her vagina.
In one instance, according to a civil complaint filed by the girl’s parents, the 14 year old girl was near a cranberry bog in Wareham when they were approached by a group of police officers including Perry and Flanagan. Flanagan asked the girl whether she had any drugs. He then ordered the girl to unbutton her pants or he would arrest her. He then placed his hands inside the 14 year old’s underwear. After this he ordered her to raise her shirt until her breasts were exposed, presumably because he suspected she was hiding drugs in her breasts. No drugs were found. Read More