Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has reversed course and canceled Confederate History Month.
Robert Reich on the state of the economy, the Great Depression and his new book ‘Aftershock’. And look at the statistical correlation he notes between 1927 and 2007. Video after the jump. Read More
In case you saw the news over the weekend that Rep. Van Hollen (D-MD) was saying there might be a pre-election tax cut vote, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer seemed to leave little doubt it ain’t happening.
Big new poll from the Louisville Courier-Journal shows Republican Rand Paul only up two points on Democrat Jack Conway in the U.S. Senate race. The last Courier-Journal poll, in late August, gave Paul a 15-point lead.
A week ago I noted that if Dems didn’t hold any tax cut vote before the election Republicans were going to claim that Democrats had ‘raised taxes’ on everyone. And sure enough, that’s what they’re now doing.
Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry (remember him?) has created a video instructing Tea Party leaders on how to pull their own Koran-tearing media stunts.
Given New York’s recent gubernatorial history, maybe the fact that GOP nominee Carl Paladino has what we used to call a love child, whom he kept a secret from his wife for years, goes on the “qualifications for office” side of the ledger, rather than the “political liabilities” side.
Nicholas Marsh, a federal prosecutor involved in the 2002 New Hampshire phone-jamming case and later in the botched prosecution of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), has committed suicide. A special prosecutor’s report on the conduct of DOJ lawyers who handled the Stevens case is expected soon, but Marsh’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, says he expected his client to be exonerated by the report.