How Jane Sanders Would Become The New Hillary Clinton
As the Democratic nomination horse-race comes to an end in just over a week, Sen. Bernie Sanders is running behind by several lengths’ worth of delegates, so it is unlikely…
Thursday THREATCON – 23 April 2015
It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this week. Due to disgraced anti-vax/Benghazi/hacking conspiracy nut…
FIRE’s Aggressive Lawsuit Campaign Targets Campus Speech, Sexual Assault Policies
After 15 years of writing policy papers and serving as experts in the media, The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a small branch of the vast-spanning Koch billionaire-funded…
Papa Johns CEO John Schnatter Joins With Koch For University Of Louisville Bailout
Declines in state funding, growing deficits and budget shortfalls have been a trend for the past three years at the University of Louisville. A proposed $6 million dollar cash infusion…
Koch-Backed Foundation To Defend Students Accused Of Sex Crimes On Campus
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a group backed financially by the Koch brothers that “fights for student and faculty rights” — is representing students who say they have…
NC Paid 100K For Koch-Owned Bill Of Rights Institute To Write New History Class
In 2011, North Carolina enacted an education bill into law that was drafted by the Koch-brother’s favorite bill mill, the American Legislative Exchange Council, i.e. ALEC. What educators didn’t expect…
Florida Congressman-Elect Carlos Curbelo Faces FEC Scrutiny Over $93k In Reporting Errors
Carlos Curbelo, a Miami, Florida Republican elected to U.S. Congress during the midterm elections, has some explaining to do, preferably before he is officially sworn into office. The Federal Election…
‘Blame It On The Supreme Court’ : Author Tim Kuhner On How Big Money Corrupts Democracy
Tim Kuhner, associate professor of law at Georgia State University writes how the U.S. Supreme Court has used economic ideology to strike down limits on money in politics in his…
Five Videos Worth Watching From the Senate Dark Money Hearing
Not every Senate hearing is worth watching. The senators show up (sometimes) and make statements on what they think about the issue of the day. Some experts testify and the…
Campaigns And Super PACs Get Closer Than Ever
Shane Goldmacher at the National Journal says that the lines of division between candidates and super PACs have gotten so blurred, Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire is shopping a…