Vitter graduated Tulane Law School in 1988. Loving v. Virginia, decided in 1967, was a unanimous Supreme Court decision that declared state anti-miscegenation (interracial marriage) laws unconstitutional. It is one of the bedrock civil rights cases, right up there with Brown. It is simply not credible for any lawyer to...

I spent the day on the Hill interviewing Representatives about Wall Street and how they were able to jump the line to get the H1N1 flu vaccine before pregnant women and children.

Yesterday, I spent the day with the Billionaires for Wealthcare and witnessed some truly scary moments.

I've been blogging for about 5 years now. The reason? I couldn't find a media that satisfied my progressive thirst... I couldn't count on Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, Dana Bash, Monica Crowley, or Wolf Blitzer, et al. to ask the questions I wanted answers to. They can't remember what the...

Andrew Breitbart says he cares a lot about the truth, but it appears that's only true when he isn't the one being questioned.

You remember Breitbart as Matt Drudge's junior partner, the proprietor of BigGovernment.com, and, apparently, babysitter for juvenile delinquents James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, the conservative, hidden-camera-wielding...

After Republicans shed gallons of crocodile tears over Alan Grayson's blunt description of their health care plan, I posted a video of John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Virginia Foxx and Jean Schmidt individually refusing to condemn some pretty over-the-top rhetoric promulgated by Rush Limbaugh. In a nutshell, Limbaugh compared Nancy Pelosi...

The minor dust-up in the House of Representatives today is a "controversy" over some hyperbolic rhetoric used by Alan Grayson, a freshman Democrat. Grayson, a favorite amongst progressives for his Howard Dean-ish traits of plain-spokenness and contempt for village protocol, spoke on the House floor and said that the Republican...

As many of you will recall, for a bit of the summertime, I spent time on Capitol Hill asking Democrats and Republicans about the issues most pressing in their respective parties. To the Democrats, I posed questions about health care and the public option. To Republicans, I put forth questions...

Thanks to FireDogLake and Campaign Silo for giving me the opportunity to do this work!

Check out this video: several Republican Congressman tell me they don't believe Barack Obama is an American. Several dodge the question. Others offer weak-tea justifications for kinda-sorta believing Obama is a natural born...

As many of you know, I've been on the Hill asking Representatives where they are on health care, and specifically, the public option. In six days of work, I've managed to film over 60 of our esteemed Representatives. If you are interested, read on... I'll tell you how things have...

A little while back, I was pumping along on the cardio-machine at my gym, XSport Fitness, when Barack Obama came on the television attached to my Arc-Trainer. He was speaking to the AMA about his health care plan when he mentioned that we, as Americans, have to do more...

It brings me great pleasure to report that Terry McAuliffe has failed in his bid to purchase Virginia's state house. After spending more money, by far, than any other Virginia primary candidate, he's crashed hard in the polls. With Creigh Deeds surging across the southern portion of the state and...

Taylor Marsh has a piece out asking Virginia voters to vote for anyone but Brian Moran. She says he's tacky for... get this... running ads on black radio stations.

I guess only Terry McAuliffe is allowed to support black radio.

OK, here's the whole story.

Several months ago,...

Non-DC denizens may not have even heard of the DC Examiner, but, probably because it is free, it is omnipresent in and around the capital. It's also important to note that it draws upon many of the same models employed by Fox News to maintain its relevance: exploit white racial...

So the Washington Post has finally taken a closer look at Terry McAuliffe... kinda-sorta, anyway. Such as it is. To the extent it is possible to take a closer look at Terry McAuliffe.

Because, you see, there are a lot of questions McAuliffe simply will not address. Worse, there...

As a law student, I'm fortunate to have access to some pretty powerful research tools. Lexis and Westlaw are the ultimate wayback machines.

I've been using them ever since I attended a dinner with McAuliffe a few weeks back and he fielded a question about his previous business ventures. At...

In September 1980, Harpers Magazine published a story by L.J. Davis titled, Chronicle of a Debacle Foretold. It was a comprehensive review of the events leading up to the S&L crisis and its aftermath.

A synopsis: S&L's were in trouble in the early '80s, so they sent...

I'm not convinced Terry McAuliffe ever had any sound political (as opposed to self-interested) instincts, but if this does not show how out of step he is with the current Democratic Party and its newly enthused rank and file... well... nothing does.

Of course, some of you refused to...

I've been unkind to Terry McAuliffe in previous posts. You'll recall that I dinged him for his reticence to put tax increases on the table, for his business dealing with Carl Lindner, his father-in-law and a crony that ran a union pension fund.

Several people commented on my reports; some...

Earlier this week I wrote about a blogger's dinner with Terry McAuliffe that I attended last Friday. Something I didn't mention (because I had forgotten about it) was T-Mac's pledge to run a fully positive campaign -- to reserve all negativity for the general election.

Under normal circumstances, that...

Last Friday, I spent some time at an informal dinner hosted by Democratic candidate for Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe. After a few minutes of banter, the roundtable began in earnest.

T-Mac's espoused platform is jobs, jobs, and one other thing I can't quite remember right now, but it's...