MSNBC's Michael Eric Dyson responds to Newt Gingrich for calling on poor children to be trained in unskilled labor so they learn a work ethic. Dyson, of course, was against such a practice and dismissed it as "scurrilous" and racist. However, Dyson didn't just have an issue with that statement. He also had a problem with what Gingrich said after he

"Very clearly, they've made a crisis and they're using this crisis to somehow take away or limit people's second amendment rights," Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Cali.) said on "Hannity" tonight. Issa was explaining how Fast & Furious is being used to expand databases on gun owners and other ways the government is using the crisis.

"The fact is, though, that as President Obama said, he's not an appeaser just -- if you look at the record, he's more of an assassin if you want to talk about the way he's attacked terrorism. He has gone out to kill the al-Qaeda leaders," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said on MSNBC's "Hardball" today.

Rick Perry hits GOP rivals Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney on health care in this campaign ad."We don't want government-mandated health care," the narrator says. "Yet, Newt Gingrich supports it. And Mitt Romney, he put it into law in Massachusetts. Worse, Barack Obama forced it on the entire nation. Rick Perry? He'll repeal it, starting day

Q Okay. Do you have any reaction to Mitt Romney specifically calling out the President’s vacation as evidence of his lack of hands-on -- that the only thing he’s hands-on with is his golf club -- and that if he were President he would take a much shorter vacation, which seems to kind of be what’s likely to happen considering what’s happ

Obama's Attorney General: Likely that more people will die from Operation "Fast and Furious"

Former chair of MF Global Jon Corzine testifies before a House committee about the collapse of the brokerage firm.

A new ad from the Restore Our Future, a PAC that is backing Mitt Romney, says Obama wants to run against Gingrich. The ad also calls Gingrich a flip-flopper.

"However many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline," he said, "they're going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance." (via Washi

President Obama bristles and fires back at GOP rivals and critics who argue he engages in appeasement. "Ask Osama bin Laden, and the 22 out of 30 top al Qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement — or whoever is left out there, ask them about that," Obama said.

“Who’s that? Who is that? Oh, that guy who used to be the speaker?” Paul said, with a grin on his face. “I have to expose him for what he’s been doing all these years. That’s all we’re doing, trying to present the facts.” (source: Radio Iowa's Kay Henderson)

AG Eric Holder attempts to avoid question about lying to congress. Saying that lying depends on one's state of mind. (December 8, 2011)

The 30-second spot, from the Democratic group Priorities USA, uses a mock newscast to showcase the former Republican president advocating for higher taxes on millionaires. Reagan is shown saying, "We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that have allowed some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share. They sometimes made

This Web video from the DNC charges that there have been five versions of Mitt Romney: a liberal Republican candidate for Senate, a moderate Republican candidate for governor, a social conservative candidate for president, an "economic Mr. Fix-It who paid lip service to the middle class," and someone who stands "against the middle class."

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder suggested Thursday that weapons lost during the course of the failed "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation will continue to show up at crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico "for years to come."

Rachel Maddow and Karen Finney discuss Newt Gingrich's various enterprises and how his policies would treat those in poverty.

The "Special Report" panel discusses the politics of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Bill O'Reilly talks about President Obama's economic speech in Kansas on Tuesday. O'Reilly says the president is blaming wealthy people for the bad economy. O'Reilly also says Obama is not a socialist.

Chris Matthews, David Corn and Sally Bradshaw discuss Mitt Romney's speech to the RJC on Wednesday in Washington, and how he attacked President Obama's foreign policy.