Peeking Under The Big Top At This Year’s Three-Ring Election Circus
November 13th, 2013Election Days can be dizzying — like trying to absorb a three-ring circus with all three acts going at once. In last week’s elections, the national media focused tightly on the center ring, where two gubernatorial contests and one mayoral race were spotlighted. The most interesting of these to me was the dazzling, out-of-nowhere, high-wire
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Dark Money Groups Pay $1 Million In Fines In California Case
October 25th, 2013by Kim Barker ProPublica. Two dark money groups linked to conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch have paid a record $1 million in fines to California to settle allegations that the combined $15 million they spent on two ballot proposals in the state was not properly disclosed. The civil settlement, announced Thursday afternoon in
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200 Years Of Tea Party Paranoia
October 16th, 2013“It’s easier to fool people,” Mark Twain apparently never said, “than to convince them that they have been fooled.” You can find those words all over the Internet attributed to Twain, but I can locate no credible source. Too bad, because it’s absolutely correct. Twain probably did say something similar, because it sounds like an
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Son Of Sikh Temple Massacre Victim Eyes U.S. Congress
October 15th, 2013Washington (AFP) – The son of a Sikh temple leader slain in a massacre said Monday he may seek the Congress seat of Republican heavyweight Paul Ryan, calling for a more peaceful America. Amardeep Kaleka –whose father Satwant Singh Kaleka was credited with saving lives when he fought off a white supremacist in the August
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Koch Denies Ever Taking ‘Position’ On Defunding Obamacare
October 9th, 2013The Koch Company wants Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and the public to know that it played no role in the “legislative tactic of tying the continuing resolution to defunding Obamacare.” A Koch Industries representative penned an open letter on Wednesday, aiming to “set the record straight” after Senator Reid said that the government shutdown was “satisfying
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