Faced With Perry's “Niggerhead” Controversy, Conservatives Slam...Herman Cain  —  Postracial politics?  Yeah, right.  —  Post Comment  —  As Texas Gov. Rick Perry deals with the fallout from the revelation that his family leases a hunting camp called “Niggerhead,” Herman Cain is facing his own backlash …

Exclusive: Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview [Video]  —  Even if Geraldo Rivera was at the Zuccotti Park yesterday, Fox News has generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement.  Foxnews.com (as of this writing) …

ESPN yanks Hank Williams for comparing Obama to Hitler  —  Hank Williams Jr., the voice famous for asking millions of viewers if they're ready for some football, has been pulled from Monday's broadcast of “Monday Night Football” over a comment he made on Fox News this morning.

Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007  —  New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.

President Obama Calls Himself ‘Underdog’ in 2012 Race for White House  —  George Stephanopoulos of ABC News interviews President Barack Obama live on ABCNews.com and Yahoo! today at 2:35 EST. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)  —  Calling himself an “underdog,” President Obama today …

Is America Suffering from Rogue Leaders or Broken Institutions?  —  Overzealous presidents and a weakened Congress are the source of our problems.  And the remedy is obvious.  —  Today on Twitter, several progressive Washington DC-based journalists sent around a link to a paragraph written …

VIDEO: Reagan Called For An End To ‘Crazy’ Tax Loopholes That Let Millionaires Pay Less Than Bus Drivers  —  When President Obama released his plan for “the Buffett rule,” which involves closing tax loopholes and ensuring that millionaires pay their fair share in taxes, he explained that …

How Obama's tax hikes would really impact the rich, in three easy charts  —  Ever since Obama redoubled his push to hike taxes on the rich, conservatives have been ridiculing Obama's invocations of fairness, insisting that the rich are already paying a rising share of the overall tax burden …

Innovation Starvation  —  My lifespan encompasses the era when the United States of America was capable of launching human beings into space.  Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on a braided rug before a hulking black-and-white television, watching the early Gemini missions.

The Cost Of A Demobilized Left  —  Watching the growth of Occupy Wall Street solidarity protests around the country, it's hard not to be reminded of the lost opportunity to mobilize a left-wing popular movement back in the winter of 2008-2009 and the spring of 2009.

Obama: No regrets over Solyndra  —  President Obama Monday said he does not regret a half-billion dollar government loan to the now-bankrupt solar energy company Solyndra and vigorously defended his administration's policy of providing assistance to similar entities.

Obama impeachment a possibility, says Ron Paul  —  Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama's targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense.  —  Asked at a Manchester, N.H. town hall meeting about last week's killing of the American-born Al Qaeda leader …

Political backlash to geoengineering begins  —  Political opposition to technologies that could artificially cool the planet is in full swing.  A field test of geoengineering, planned for October in Sculthorpe, UK, has been postponed for six months.  Meanwhile, the European Parliament …

Bloomberg Whiffs, Part 1  —  Last Friday, I wrote about a Bloomberg Markets story on Koch Industries which at that time was still in preparation.  According to multiple reports, the story was expected to focus on claims that a European Koch subsidiary had business transactions in Iran …

Rep. Cantor rejects Obama, says president's jobs package is dead  —  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) declared President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill dead on Monday in its current form, flatly rejecting the president's latest plea for Congress to vote on the measure.

Inside Obama's Populist Makeover  —  The president's friends (and foes) on what prompted his lurch to the left—and whether it will work.  Plus, Michael Tomasky on Obama's new centrist battle plan.

Risk-averse America  —  Economist Robert Litan of the Kauffman Foundation likes to recall that half of today's Fortune 500 companies began as start-ups in a recession or a bear stock market.  And why not?  During a recession, it's cheaper to hire new workers, rent office space, buy supplies.

It's between Christie and his wife  —  I've been avoiding doing a tick-tock of “will-he-or-won't-he” on Chris Christie's deliberations this weekend, and his camp has stayed off the grid.  Christie himself has also stayed mum, and he has no media availability tomorrow.

West Virginia too close to call  —  The race for Governor of West Virginia is looking more and more like a toss up, with Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin now leading Republican Bill Maloney only 47-46.  Tomblin's lead was 46-40 on a poll conducted at the beginning of September and he had led …