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“A Fatal Curse On Democracy”: Corporate Cowards Divert Shareholder Funds Into...
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court pretends, they certainly are loudmouths, constantly telling us how great they are and spreading their names everywhere. Amazingly, though, these...
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“Focusing On The Wrong People”: The Real IRS Scandal Is Secret Money...
The IRS is under siege for investigating conservative political groups applying for tax-exempt status. But the real problem wasn’t that the IRS was too aggressive. It was that the agency focused on the...
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“The Nakedly Transparent Flouting Of The Tax Laws”: Washington Misses The...
My pixels have been absent from these precincts while I report a feature story for The Nation, and I’ll have more to say about the ersatz Scandalpalooza being ginned up by Republicans this week, but...
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“Where There’s Smoke, There’s Money”: Tobacco Giant Reynolds American Inc...
Tobacco giant Reynolds American Inc. last year helped fund several of the nation’s most politically active — and secretive — nonprofit organizations, according to a company document reviewed by the...
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“Special Hide The Money Designations”: The IRS Should Outlaw All Social...
If you’re covered in political stink, it might be prudent to avoid yelling “dirty politics” at others. Lately, a mess of right-wing Tea Party groups have been wailing nonstop that they have been...
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“A Pledge To Ensure Failure, No Matter The Consequences”: Koch Brothers Push...
The Republican Party is certainly fond of its pledges. Grover Norquist, of course, has his infamous anti-tax pledge that has interfered with federal policymaking in recent decades, and in 2011, GOP...
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“The GOP Has It Backwards”: Republicans Want To Tax Students And Not Polluters
A basic economic principle is government ought to tax what we want to discourage, and not tax what we want to encourage. For example, if we want less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we should tax...
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“Under Obamacare, Millions Will Die”: The Coming Campaign Against The...
I have questions. For instance, are Charles and David Koch aliens from the planet Fnerzblax 6, come here to feast on the entrails of Earth humans to give them strength for their coming war with the...
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“Money Talks”: A Climate Change Argument That May Even Work On Conservatives
We may find out if Republicans actually do trust the free market. For years, activists have been touting the fact that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is manmade, hoping that...
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“Just Another Gutless Sniveler”: A Funny Thing Happened On Marco Rubio’s Way...
Poor Marco Rubio. As the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform sink, so go his hopes of establishing himself as the solid Republican frontrunner in the 2016 campaign for the White House....
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“Hatred Overwhelming Judgment”: The “Refuse To Enroll” Campaign Gets To Work...
When Reuters reported last week that Republicans and their allies “are mobilizing … to dissuade uninsured Americans from obtaining health coverage,” it caused a bit of a stir. After all, what kind of...
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“Big Money Begets Massive Influence”: How The Koch Brothers Are Buying...
Between buying elections, billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch shop for big pieces of American media and culture. And, hey, why not? We already knew of the Kochs’ efforts to buy Tribune Company,...
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“It’s All Academic Governor”: Chris Christie’s Debate Phobia Won’t Win Him...
“We are not a debating society. We are a political operation that needs to win.” Thus did Chris Christie offer one of the most pregnant statements yet in the ongoing Republican argument over the...
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“The Scott Walker Of New Jersey”: Why “Moderate” Chris Christie Is Just As...
Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) is a “moderate” the same way Moe from the Three Stooges was an academic: only in comparison to the other Stooges. While his amicable embrace of President Obama during...
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“A Tough Decision”: Paul Ryan’s Choice, His Constituents Or His Deep Ties To...
How’s this for irony: When the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin, was preparing to formally petition Congress to take the necessary actions to get corporate money out of politics and to restore grassroots...
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“200 Years Of Tea Party Paranoia”: From The Civil War Onward, They Always Lose
“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...
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“Lousy Medicaid Arguments”: Deeply Revealing, More Evidence Of The Right’s...
For now, the big news about Obamacare is the debacle of HealthCare.gov, the Web portal through which Americans are supposed to buy insurance on the new health care exchanges. For now, at least,...
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“Once Again, The Pundits Get It Wrong”: The Virginia Election Was A Big Win...
As the Affordable Care Act was about to go fully into effect last month, the New York Times ran a big front-page article highlighting the fact that millions of Americans would go uncovered by the law...
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“Wanted, A Brain, A Heart And A Little Courage”: Do Republican Moderates Have...
Establishment Republicans feel pretty good about their wins yesterday in New Jersey and Alabama. (Many are also quietly saying “I told you so” about Ken Cuccinelli’s loss in the Virginia governor’s...
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“What A Terrible Thing To Do To People”: Republican Attacks On Obamacare Are...
If health insurance isn’t important, why would receiving a letter telling you that you need to change your plan be a tragedy that can get you on Fox News nearly immediately? Republicans have seized on...
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