That didn’t take long. Dinesh D’Souza spends most of his time purveying hate and nonsense and obsessing about the failings of black people in addition to producing the anti-Obama (anti-colonial Kenyan mentality) movie showing in theaters around the country this season. Read More

Irving Berlin, Helen Hayes, Dwight Eisenhower and other celebs at the Alfred E. Smith charity dinner in 1952 — take a look. The 67th installment of the dinner is tonight in New York City.

Federal appeals court strikes down DOMA.

As the polls get tighter, we move into what I call the MoS, the Margin of Suppression, the range of closeness in which voter suppression tactics could mean the margin of victory in states across the country or maybe the election as a whole. With that in mind, we’re hosting a live chat right now at TPMPrime with one of the national experts on the issue Michael Waldman, President of the Brennan Center at NYU. Click here to join in and ask your question.

First bona-fide images of Woman Binders emerge.

You’ve probably noticed that there’s been a rash of uncovered emails with hyper-conservative CEOs trying to tell their employees how to vote in the presidential election or suggesting that an Obama reelection victory could end up losing them their jobs. Now In These Times has gotten a hold of an audio recording of Mitt Romney talking to “small-business owners” (remember, Romney considers himself a small-business owner) in which he asks them to tell their employees how they should vote. Read More

A new poll out this morning puts Elizabeth Warren up by 9 points over Scott Brown in Massachusetts. That’s ahead of other recent polls but not dramatically. The trend in Massachusetts seems all in her favor.

I’m not sure why we didn’t think of this sooner, but I don’t think we’re the only ones to be slow on the uptake here. When you look at Mitt Romney’s health care reform proposal for the country as a whole, it actually spells disaster for Romneycare in Massachusetts, in not one but two different ways. Brian Beutler talks to some of the folks there at the creation of Romneycare about how Romney’s latest proposals would change the underlying economics for Romneycare in disastrous ways.

The 1980s me is blown away that Newsweek is ceasing printing.

Mitt’s son Tagg says he wanted to take a swing at the President when Obama called his dad a liar. Read More