Mike Pence’s Bad Math on Taxes
On Sunday’s This Week, host Christiane Amanpour tried to moderate a discussion between Reagan’s budget director David Stockman and Indiana Congressman (and former radio talk show host) Mike Pence. While Amanpour and Stockman had a discussion about facts, Pence just…
Buying Hoosier Elections: Parties vs Nonparty Groups Revisited
Previously, I posted a district-by-district comparison showing that, compared to previous elections, we’re seeing a much larger amount of money being spent by groups that do not disclose their donors. I relied on several sources of information for this post,…
Buying Hoosier Elections With Lies
Greg Sargent had a great post a week or so ago, hitting on the fact that all the untraceable outside money pouring into our elections isn’t only problematic on its own – it’s also that it is buying lie after…
Telemarketer’s trademark claim forces “Shop With A Cop” to change its name
The first story I saw in this morning’s paper wasn’t about elections, or crime, or even the weather. It was this: But after this year, don’t expect the program to be called by its widely recognized moniker “Shop with a…
Todd Rokita Threatens Political Opponents
For the last few months, Secretary of State (and current Congressional candidate) Todd Rokita has been on a campaign against the Indiana State Teachers Association. He’s repeatedly insinuated, while offering no evidence, that the ISTA has commingled political funds with…
Buying Hoosier Elections, Then and Now
This is the 3rd installment in a series of posts. See my previous entries: Who’s Buying Hoosier Elections – a look at the outside groups spending money in Indiana’s Congressional elections Which Hoosier Elections Are Being Bought – a race-by-race…
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi on the narcissism of the Tea Party
While I’m not one to mind some adult words thrown into an article, Taibbi seems to rely on profanity as a crutch in his writing. But buried in his four-lettered vocabulary are some important insights. Taibbi realizes, as I’ve argued…
GOP plans to add $4 Trillion to deficit, doubling projections
By prioritizing tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy, Mitch McConnell and the GOP are burdening future generations of Americans with debt that will never be paid off. Over the last year, the GOP has railed against temporary measures…
