DeFUNIAK SPRINGS — Lane Rees, a former Walton County commissioner and Republican state committeeman, will serve 10 years in prison on a child pornography charge. At his request, the 62-year-old Rees was remanded to custody immediately ...
” … In August, Walker also fired Steven Krieser from the Department of Transportation after Krieser compared illegal immigrants to Satan on Facebook. … “ December 5, 2013 A finance staffer for Gov. Scott Walker’s ...
Editorial: A perversion of “social welfare” Carlsbad Current-Argus December 4, 2013 The Obama administration’s move to rein in political activity by tax-exempt groups has the potential to slow the torrent of secret election money funneled ...
Photo: Grover Norquist (Getty) Google, the tech giant supposedly guided by its “don’t be evil” motto, has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers. Organizations that received “substantial” funding from ...
” … When conservative stars turned out en masse for Goldwater’s 1964 campaign, particularly in California, they were losing a battle but providing essential ideological matériel for a longer-term war of conservative ascendance nationally. Conservative ...
Despite owning a book store, I often check out books from Alton’s Hayner Library. I just finished reading an extraordinary work: “Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America’s Radical Right” by Claire Connor ...
Photo: President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at Dallas Airport, Nov. 22, 1963. (Credit: AP) Fifty years later, a complicit media still covers up for the security state. We need to reclaim our history ...
Sen. Rand Paul acknowledged Tuesday that he had failed to properly source material in published writings, including a column in The Washington Times, after a string of embarrassing plagiarism accusations surfaced in recent days. Mr. Paul took ...
Also see: “John Boehner’s Ranking Campaign Contributor has a Sordid History of Corporate Crime“ Boehner for Speaker Committee Stacks Up $5 Million in Third Quarter October 15, 2013 A fundraising committee showed strong efforts by ...
Photo: Governor Pat McCrory, at podium, appeared with former N.C. governors Jim Martin, left, Bev Perdue and Jim Hunt, right, during a fundraising event at Blandwood Mansion in Greensboro on Tuesday. (AP Photo/News & Record, ...
Also see: “Rand Paul’s plagiarism allegations, and why they matter,” Washington Post, November 4, 2013: ” … Paul hasn’t denied that the language was borrowed. Instead, he has argued that he is the victim of ‘haters‘ out to destroy ...
October 25, 2013 Republicans are demanding cuts in Social Security and Medicare if Democrats want to change the terms of the “sequester.” … So is the media giving Americans the information they need in order ...
” … The current government shutdown is a foretaste of the radical right’s deadly serious agenda to take sole power, irrespective of their increasing unpopularity. … When a movement seeks to take power, they do ...
In the midst of his speech at this weekend’s Values Voter Summit, Glenn Beck seemed momentarily taken aback by the depth of his audience’s contempt for gay people. Beck was on stage, flanked by the ...
I watched a Chris Hayes’ panel on Thursday, October 9, 2013. They were discussing the government shut down and the debt ceiling. No one mentioned that the faction standing on the ledge and threatening to ...
A federal judge on Monday sentenced former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi to three years in prison for convictions on public corruption, money laundering and other charges. U.S. District Judge David C. Bury also sentenced Renzi ...
On Tuesday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed the growing plagiarism scandal around Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who appears to have serially plagiarized Wikipedia entries in his speeches. Paul’s office ...
It slipped out in an unguarded moment, as the truth often does. Nevada Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, R-Reno, was in the midst of a routine interview on KOH, right-wing talk radio. He knows the ...
October 18, 2013 The crisis in Washington was always partly a story about money in politics, with big conservative donors pushing GOP lawmakers to an extreme stance with threats of primary challenges to those who ...
$15 million hit for campaign reporting violations Sacramento — In a case seeking to unmask the murky multimillion-dollar trail of money pouring into state and national political campaigns, California’s political watchdog agency on Thursday announced ...
” … He said if the law ‘hurts a bunch of lazy blacks who just want the government to give them everything, so be it.’ … ” Well, that didn’t take long. Less than 24 ...
The grassroots movement image fostered by the tea party is anything but – it was planned, nurtured and harvested by Charles and David Koch and a few of their mega-rich ultra-conservative cronies. Who makes up ...
Growing up in the halls of First Methodist Church in Lubbock I was taught to display respect for my church and the other religions in Lubbock. I remember watching the Rev. Billy Graham on our ...
“… This kind of scorched earth politics that runs through everything Eric Cantor and this demagogic Republican Party has done, is a disgrace. …” Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein on Wednesday called out Rep. Eric Cantor and ...
Sen. Sanders put the blame for the government shutdown square on the Koch Brothers, “Let’s not kid ourselves. This shutdown is not something that just came about a couple of weeks ago through Ted Cruz. ...
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” — Peter Thiel, April 13 2009 The Gay Billionaire Pothead Behind the Senate’s New Right-Wing Star Gawker, September 30, 2013 Where does a man like ...
Mike Rogers, the man responsible for the outing of Congressmen Mark Foley, Larry Craig, David Dreier, and Edward Schrock — to name a few — had been fairly quiet for a while. Yesterday, the LGBT ...
The man known as Bobby Thompson goes on trial in state court in Cleveland today. He faces up to 40 years in prison on charges of fraud, theft and money laundering for his role as ...
In an excerpt from his new book Let It Shine, John Perlin reveals how one of the first actions of the new Reagan administration was to dim the lights on what had been a promising ...
A national “tea party” group Friday gave $20,000 to organizers of a referendum drive seeking to put Medicaid expansion on the 2014 ballot. The Tea Party Patriots’ contribution was a boost as petition gatherers head ...
To the surprise of no one, studies have shown voter ID laws target young minority voters and other demographics who routinely vote Democratic. More surprising, however, is that Republicans are now actually copping to the fact ...
LANSING — A member of the Michigan Republican State Committee is facing criminal charges in Green Bay, Wis., in connection with a March incident involving a high-powered weapon and his estranged wife. No shots were ...
Does the following description of a political situation at the beginning of July apply to Egypt, or to North Carolina? “Just a year after winning a decisive election victory and taking power from an entrenched ...
John Clarence and Tom Whittle, co-authors of The Gold House trilogy, allege a massive gold theft at White Sands Missile Range had its roots in a meeting more than three years before at Richard Nixon’s ...
Also see: “No terror connection? No problem, says NSA,” MSNBC “NSA Misled Surveillance Court Multiple Times, Secret Opinions Show,” ACLU August 20 2013 Fresh off of a brand new series of document releases, including several ...
