David Corn and Salon's Joan Walsh joined Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball to discuss Mitt Romney's campaign of falsehoods against the President. Romney claims that President Obama has increased federal spending, raised taxes, and appeased Al Qaeda. David Corn is Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief. For more of his stories, click here. […]

Earlier today, two Israeli soldiers were “lightly to moderately wounded” by gunfire out of Gaza. According to HaAretz: There has been an increase in hostile activity along the Israel-Gaza border, including the planting of explosive devices, shootings, and RPG fire. Reports also emerged that two terror cells had been uncovered by Israel’s security services in […]

Arizona’s Secretary of State, Ken Bennett, has been asking Hawaii to verify Obama’s citizenship, stating he would not allow Obama onto the presidential ballot without such verification. Hawaii initially threw the crazy back in his face, telling him he had to verify that he was who he said he was before they would provide him [...]

The national board of the NAACP, America's oldest civil rights organization, officially endorsed same-sex marriage rights Saturday after a vote in which only two members dissented. Although it may seem like the NAACP was conveniently following President Barack Obama's lead, the group's decision was a long time coming, and reflects an internal […]

Has anything changed in the world of campaign finance that might give pause to the five members of the Supreme Court who decided Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission exactly 28 months ago Monday? Read full article >>

Our glibertarian friends like to tell us that the Koch brothers really aren’t Republicans, they’re just into spreading liberty and freedom and promoting limited government and fiscal responsibility. Ahem: Charles and David Koch, the billionaire owners of of Koch Industries, are known as big spenders when it comes to lobbying and influencing public policy. No […]

The chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Sunday said it was the fault of President Barack Obama and the Democrats for reports that a super PAC supporting presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney was considering attack ads featuring Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah...

I had cobbled together this disjointed blog post about our recent adventures at the Keep collective.  I had had a wonderful connect with Skye Rios and Luna from Warren Wilson and had written briefly about it in this mornings post.  Luna and i Facebook friended and as i often do with new FB friends (who [...]

There are a lot of people talking about Citizen’s United this election cycle. The Supreme Court ruling declared money is speech, therefore donations cannot be limited as it would restrict free speech. Democrats recoiled when the decision was announced. Republicans quickly established SuperPACS to collect unlimited secret donations. These donations often come […]

Three worthy pieces in the Sunday papes on themes I’ve raised here at OTE. OTE’ers who’ve been with me from the beginning will recall that one of my very first posts stressed this same point made by Robert Shiller today and one of the most dangerous analogies in political economy: “families have to tighten their [...]

Good news for a Sunday morning, from the NYTimes: The board of the N.A.A.C.P. voted to endorse same-sex marriage on Saturday, putting the weight of the country’s most prominent civil rights group behind a cause that has long divided some quarters of the black community. The largely symbolic move, made at the group’s meeting in [...]

SUFFOLK With the filing deadline less than a month away, at least three would-be candidates for mayor are jockeying for a place on the November ballot in what is expected to be a hotly contested race.

The ‘Great Recession’ officially ended in 2009, and we have been on the long road to recovery ever since. The graph above shows how the recovery has looked so far. … Continue reading →

This photo, taken by Del. Mark Keam, was all we had last night to know how the House of Delegates voted on Tracy Thorne-Begland. We now have the roster, via RTD. The 33 delegates who voted in favor of this highly qualified candidate were: David B. Albo, R-Fairfax Kenneth C. Alexander, D-Norfolk Mamye E. BaCote, … Continue reading »