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Most independent ads for 2012 election are from groups that don’t disclose donors
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25.4.2032 |
washingtonpost.com - Politics |
| Nearly all of the independent advertising aired for the 2012 general-election campaign has come from interest groups that do not disclose their donors, suggesting that much of the political spending over the next six months will come from sources invisible to the public. ... |
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Where money talks
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24.5.2013 |
Washington Post: Op-Eds |
| Call it the revenge of the 1 percent.
President Obama bested Mitt Romney by portraying his Republican opponent as a rich businessman who used offshore tax havens and ran enterprises into the ground without regard for working people. ... |
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Former Oakland mayoral candidate's class assignment raises ethics question
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24.5.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News |
| SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A San Francisco State University professor considering a run for Oakland mayor is drawing scrutiny for a class assignment that asked students to create a political campaign ad and gave them the option of developing it for him. |
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Wis. Gov. Walker Touts State Ties During Trip To Iowa
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24.5.2013 |
WCCO: National |
 Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, is introducing himself to Iowa Republicans as would-be presidential candidates often do -- as one of their own. Walker tells about 600 of the GOP faithful at a party fundraising banquet in a Des Moines suburb that he spent his childhood in Iowa. |
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Worse Than Watergate? The Ultimate White House Scandal Matrix
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24.5.2013 |
Mother Jones |
| Worse than Watergate . That's the refrain coming from the Obama administration's critics as it scrambles to tamp down a growing pile of scandals. "The Obama administration's cover-up of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack surpasses Watergate," states Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). The IRS-tea party scandal "is far worse than Watergate," according to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). And Pinal County, Arizona, Sheriff Paul Babeu maintains that Fast and Furious "is a much larger scandal than Watergate." And of course there is a hashtag: #WorseThanWatergate .
Comparing the scandal du jour to Watergate is an easy way to score political points. (Conservatives aren't the only guilty ones here.) But if you're interested in making a more subtle and perhaps accurate comparison, you need only refer to the United States' long history of White House scandals, starting in the first days of the republic.
To help you keep track of them, we've plotted more than 25 on this matrix, ... |
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[newstrust :: scandal]
[newstrust :: wmd]
[newstrust :: Iraq War]
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Wisconsin: Scott Walker touts state ties during trip to Iowa
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24.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: News |
| WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Scott Walker tried to introduce himself to Iowa Republicans Thursday as so many would-be presidential candidates often do -- one of their own. |
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Campaign cash flowing in Santa Clara County District 2 Supervisor's race
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24.5.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: News |
| As the race to replace former Santa Clara County District 2 Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. heats up, the gap in fundraising is tightening as independent expenditure committees and other groups play an increasingly significant role for the top two candidates in the June 4 special election. |
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GOP's Walker touts state ties during trip to Iowa
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24.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Politics |
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DealBook: Banks’ Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills
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24.5.2013 |
NY Times: Business |
| DealBook: Banks’ Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
[newstrust :: Regulation]
[newstrust :: Trade]
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GOP's Walker touts state ties during trip to Iowa
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24.5.2013 |
AP Politics |
| WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Scott Walker tried to introduce himself to Iowa Republicans Thursday as so many would-be presidential candidates often do - one of their own.... |
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Three reasons Congress is broken
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24.5.2013 |
Washington Post |
| Why is Congress so helpless and so hopeless? We’ve heard all the fashionable explanations: partisan gridlock; special interests and the impact of their campaign contributions; gerrymandered House districts; an excessively partisan president; a benighted Republican Party dominated by tea party know-nothings. ... |
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Ringside Seat: War Is Over?
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24.5.2013 |
American Prospect |
| To be honest, before President Obama delivered his speech today on the "war on terror," we weren't too optimistic about what new ground it might break. But it turned out to be quite significant—perhaps not completely revolutionary, but meaningful nonetheless. Even as he made a lengthy argument in defense of the use of drones, Obama acknowledged not only that we have killed American citizens in drone strikes, but that the strikes have also killed civilians. He made, as he hasn't in some time, a strong case to shut down the prison in Guantanamo, and also announced a lifting of the moratorium on sending prisoners who have been declared to not be a threat to the U.S. (because they weren't terrorists in the first place) back to Yemen. According to The New York Times, "Of the 86 detainees approved for transfer when 'security conditions' are met, 56 of them are from Yemen. In theory, this move could lead to a significant reduction in the prison population." Obama also called for repealing the ... |
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Peggy Noonan, Nate Silver & Punditry
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24.5.2013 |
Red State |
| Peggy Noonan, Nate Silver & Punditry |
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WikiLeaks Donations Down to a Trickle
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24.5.2013 |
Wired Top Stories |
| WikiLeaks Donations Down to a Trickle |
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[wikileaksnews :: Visa]
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[wikileaksnews :: Mastercard]
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When bad laws breed good scandals
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23.5.2013 |
Chicago Tribune: Opinion |
| When bad laws breed good scandals |
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The True Cost Of Gasoline: Memorial Day Driving By The Numbers
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23.5.2013 |
Think Progres |
| The True Cost Of Gasoline: Memorial Day Driving By The Numbers |
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Conservative Billionaires, Oppressed by Liberal Thugs
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23.5.2013 |
American Prospect |
| Fear not, billionaire super PAC and 501(c)(4) funders. You may feel oppressed, you may fear the pitchforks and torches of the unwashed masses gathering at the gate of your manse, you may wake in the night in a cold sweat and bellow to your footman, "Dare I give Paul Ryan $10 million for his 2016 presidential race, lest some bearded plebian pen a vicious blog post aimed at my very heart?" If nothing else, Mitch McConnell has your back.
Today, McConnell takes to the pages of The Washington Post to defend the right of America's millionaires and billionaires to pour their funds into campaigns while remaining anonymous. Those with long memories may recall that when the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law was being debated, McConnell and others said that the answer to the problem of money and politics was disclosure: Let the wealthy give as much as they want, but disclose contributions quickly, and with everything out in the open we could forestall the possibility of corruption. But with ... |
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Nineteen House Democrats vote to take authority over Keystone XL decision away from the president
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23.5.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska makes a point
Wednesday about the bill he sponsored
to yank presidential authority for approving
the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
And they might as well have been playing tiddlywinks since President Obama has indicated that he will veto the bill that some have called unconstitutional if it makes it to his desk. With those 19 Democrats in tow, including eight of the 14 remaining Blue Dogs, all but one Republican voted for the bill, 241-175-1 . As noted by Stephen Kretzman, executive director of Oil Change International, supporters have taken six times more campaign contributions from the oil industry than did the opponents, a total of $56 million.
The pipeline requires a presidential permit because it crosses an international boundary. The legislation would not change authority for approval of any other cross-boundary pipelines.
The Republicans at the podium Wednesday spouted permanent job numbers from the project as high as 20,000, long since ... |
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Vote on gay Scouts comes at emotional moment
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23.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| GRAPEVINE, Texas—The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday on whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members. |
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Vote on gay Boy Scouts comes at emotional moment
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23.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: News |
| GRAPEVINE, Texas—The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday on whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members. |
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