Audio smuggled out of the right-wing billionaire benefactor Koch Brothers’ secret meeting in Beaver Creek last month has made headlines for the red-meat rhetoric it captured and for identifying the high-profile attendees who sneaked in and out of the event. The fact that Charles Koch welcomed the crowd More…
Major news publications are paying attention to the fact that a Texas law against “homosexual conduct” is still in the Penal Code despite being ruled unconstitutional in 2003. That law isn’t the only statute to remain on the books after being declared unconstitutional, nor the only one dealing with offenses More…
Last year Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann led the Republican charge against health care reform legislation, arguing that it would be the worst kind of big government intrusion. She warned it would insert government between Americans and their doctors and that the Obama Administration would let loose an army of IRS More…
Mother Jones is running a series of infographics in its most recent issue that follow income trends in the U.S. Among other findings, they show that the top .01 percent of Americans make 875 times what the bottom 90 percent make, and that the rich have gotten richer and More…
From Houston to Raleigh to Indiana’s Marion County, conservative poll watchers are being accused by Democrats of overstepping the line and intimidating voters in their efforts to deter voter fraud. But could Democratic hand wringing about voter suppression actually be hurting the party’s efforts to turn out the vote? Mother Jones’ Suzy More…
The unfolding foreclosure fraud crisis centers on mortgage servicers, companies that collect and organize mortgage payments on behalf of banks. (Many are actually subsidiaries of big financial-service companies, like J.P. Morgan Chase.) When a homeowner misses payments, the servicers are meant to carefully review their financial statements and to notify More…
Nick Baumann at Mother Jones reminds us that the Obama administration promised earlier this month to do its best to review about 224 more documents that might be responsive to the American Civil Liberties Union’s Freedom of Information Act longstanding requests for documents relating to the torture, abuse More…
The Weekly Standard and Greg Sargent are both reporting that the House Democratic leadership is boldly (my characterization, not the Standard’s) standing up to the White House and the Senate, which last week passed an amendment to the appropriations bill that would allow Obama to keep More…
No shocker here.
It’s not just the gay and lesbian community that’s going after President-elect Barack Obama for his choice to have Rick Warren, the socially conservative evangelical minister, deliver the inauguration’s invocation. Blogging for Congressional Quarterly, David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones, says Obama has “stepped over More…
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