Senator Joe Manchin Working On Bill To Delay Obamacare Mandate Due To Website Woes

The bad roll out of the Affordable Care Act is starting to lead to calls for delays in enforcement of the law.

Kansas And Arizona Creating Two-Tiered Voting Systems

Two states are creating a voting system that will make some people ineligible to vote in state and local elections.

Good Government Reforms Gave Us Bad Government

Recent anti-corruption measures have contributed to making American government worse.

Cruz Needs to Work on his Analogies (and His Analysis)

Nazi comparisons are only helpful when discussing actual Nazis.

Media Coverage Of Ted Cruz v. Media Coverage Of Wendy Davis

Can differences in media coverage of two unrelated filibusters be explained solely by media bias?

House Republicans Try To Placate The “Defund Obamacare” Crowd

The House GOP Leadership didn’t endear itself to the Tea Party today.

Same-Sex Marriage Gets Its Day In Court

A big week at the Supreme Court.

The Debt Ceiling and the Remainder of the Fiscal Cliff

Are we really going to do this again? The answer appears to be yes.

Presidential Race ‘Tight’ in Meaningless National Polls [UPDATED]

A week out from the election, President Obama is a heavy favorite to win re-election. But the major press continues to pretend otherwise.

Obama Meets With Liberal Journalists!

President Obama had some prominent liberal journalists over for coffee.

Release Of Jobs Report Gives Birth To The Unemployment Truthers

Within minutes after today’s Jobs Report was released, the conspiracy theorists began to come forward.

Mitt Romney’s Favorability Problem Continues

Mitt Romney continues to have serious problems getting people to like him.

Trying To Make Sense Of The Boston Globe’s Romney/Bain Capital Story

A new report on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital seems to be much ado about nothing.

Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Sends Democrats Scrambling

The number of Pennsylvania voters without required photo IDs exceeds Obama’s 2008 margin of victory.

Belief in God Low Among Young Americans

A third of Americans under the age of 30 doubt the existence of God, compared to 14 percent 25 years ago.

Birtherism and the Electoral College

States actually have constitutional authority over the selection of electors, not of the president.

Democratic Senators Unleash Tax Vendetta Against Eduardo Saverin

Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.

How To Read The Polls: General Election Edition

Time to prepare yourself for the incoming deluge of polling.

Etch A Sketch And The Permanent Campaign Silly Season

Yesterday, the campaign silly season got particularly silly.

Mitt Romney Is Not Running Out of Money

An odd meme’s developing that Mitt Romney’s campaign is in financial trouble.

Santorum and Climate Change Theology

Rick Santorum sounds like someone applying for a job in a religious institution, not someone running to be the President of the United States.

Breaking and Unbreaking News in Twitter Time

Within an hour last evening, I passed along and retracted two breaking news stories on Twitter.

Ron Paul Versus The Fourteenth Amendment

Ron Paul’s opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment would make a Paul Administration an enemy of civil liberties.

DC Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds PPACA

The PPACA now has a 3-1 record in US appeals courts.

Cain, the Chilean Model, and the Individual Mandate

Cain’s public lack of understanding about public policy goes beyond 9-9-9.

Rezwan Ferdaus Terror Plot: Serious or Amateur?

Rezwan Ferdaus, an American Muslim, has been charged with a major terrorist plot against his country.

Florida Moves its Primary

Yet again, a state seeks to buck the primary calendar (and yet again it provides a chance to wonder why we have the nomination system we have).

TPM Victim of DDOS Attack

Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall confirms that his site has been down since 5 pm owing to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack.