Boston Globe... Elizabeth Warren stepped up her attacks against Scott Brown over women’s issues today as a new poll showed her trailing the Republican senator by five points. The automated phone survey conducted Aug. 16 through Aug. … [Read more...]

Reuters... (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that Alabama and Georgia could enforce key aspects of their laws against illegal immigration that allow police to check the status of criminal suspects. The decisions were … [Read more...]

I've said on BMG before that when people do something wrong, we should look beyond party and call them out on it. My first thought when I read this story was "Really?" but the more I thought about it, my thought turned to " You … [Read more...]

Some people said this would never happen, but it looks like it will. A Pennsylvania judge Wednesday allowed a Republican-backed law requiring voters to show IDs to go into effect starting this Election Day, a setback for Democrats and … [Read more...]

Vice President Biden said today that Mitt Romney's regulatory policies will put people "in chains," a comment the Romney campaign denounced as "a new low." At a campaign rally in Danville, Va., Biden quoted Romney as saying that "in the … [Read more...]

The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported losses of $57 million per day in the last quarter and warned it will miss another payment due to the U.S. Treasury, just one week after its first-ever default on a payment for … [Read more...]

Now BMG has posted very positively about EW raising money, like this... The second quarter numbers are in (via email; here’s a brief Globe story), and they’re even better than last time. Elizabeth Warren is a truly astounding … [Read more...]

I know you guys have been busy trashing Scott Brown and Mitt Romney but... did you notice the US House voted to extend the Obama tax cuts? The 256 yes votes included 19 Democrats. Is the Democratically controlled Senate going to let the … [Read more...]

This is good news... The Pentagon, facing smaller budgets and looking towards a new global strategy, has decided it wants to save as much as $3 billion by freezing refurbishment of the M1 from 2014 to 2017, so it can redesign the … [Read more...]

A few days ago a touched on a subject near and dear to my heart about the BS we hear from people about issues and then how they "do nothing" about it. Singers, actors, politicians get arrested for criminal/civil/moral or ethical violations … [Read more...]