Allen, Kaine Debate In Close Senate Race In Swing State Virginia

Gov. Jerry Brown did his best fundraising of the year last week, collecting in two days about what he raised in the previous three months. Gov. Jerry Brown celebrates the budget deal with Democratic legislative leaders Darrell Steinberg, left, and John A. Pérez.

Bill Ayers, the professor and former member of the Weather Underground whose relationship with President Obama became fodder for the right during the 2008 campaign, says that he's disappointed with Obama as a president, and thinks that the Administration's drone policy "absolutely" constitutes a war crime.“Every president in this century should be put on trial,” Ayers told Real Clear Politics.

ABC News’ Brooke Kettler reports: At what age do young boys begin sexual self-exploration? As early as 15 weeks in utero, according to Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas. “Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” said Burgess, a former

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, argued that immigration reform advocates who rallied outside of his house earlier this week were practicing “domestic terrorism," and were no different than the Ku Klux Klan.“They’re just not wearing white cloaks, but this is exactly KKK type of intimidation,” Kobach told Glenn Beck.

I recently pointed out that contrary to conservative claims that the food stamp, or SNAP, program has run amok, participation is high for a reason: there are still a lot of folks struggling to provide their families with adequate nutrition, and this program has been particularly responsive to that need.  This is what we call: a good thing, not a bad thing.  As I wrote then:SNAP rolls increased sharply in the recession, as you’d expect—along with UI, SNAP was and is highly elastic to increased need—[and] they’ve decelerated of late as the economy has slowly improved, though here again, it’s not improved as fast for those more exposed to food insecurity.