A refresher on President Obama’s al Qaeda rhetoric
Top Story: Forget the pile-on, the embassy closings are in line with what the president has said about the war on terrorism (well, at least since about October). A lot of people are wondering how the...
View ArticleGingrich chides GOP for being too ‘anti-Obama’
Newt Gingrich, former presidential candidate and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, speaks at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference March 16, 2013 in National Harbor, Maryland....
View ArticleNorth Carolina’s less-than-truthful spin on voter suppression
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory in Charlotte, North Carolina November 6, 2012. (Photo by Chris Keane/Reuters) North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has drawn criticism from both lawmakers and civil...
View ArticleSenate remains a glass ceiling for African-Americans
Then-Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo., center, accompanied by fellow CBC members, speaks outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2011, following...
View ArticleBachmann campaign’s ‘SNL skit’ moment
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign for the GOP nomination provided plenty of fodder for Saturday Night Live in 2011 and 2012, but if the new tell-all book written by insiders from her failed...
View ArticleBehind the scenes in ‘Bachmannistan’
In August of 2011 Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann became the first woman ever to win the famous Iowa Ames presidential straw poll. For a moment it looked like she could win the 2012 Republican...
View ArticleEthics: Did Bachmann break the rules?
Michele Bachmann waves as she departs the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines while campaigning in August 2011. (Photo by Daniel Acker/Reuters) The House Ethics Committee decided to keep on digging into Rep....
View ArticleWATCH: Can these reps fight partisanship with youth?
Two young members of Congress have found a new way to fight partisan gridlock in Congress: Their age. Republican Rep. Aaron Schock and Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, both 32, recently joined forces to...
View ArticleVery Last Word: How Richard Wolffe snuck into the DNC
After the show, MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe, author of the new book The Message: The Reselling of President Obama, told the epic story of how he snuck into the DNC to watch President Obama’s nomination...
View ArticleReasons to expect more of the same from Congress
Will the 2014 midterms be another wave election for Congress? Don’t bet on it, according to a review of NBC/Wall Street Journal polling. Until last year, the past three election cycles all produced...
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