More on Mitt Romney’s tax returns, more ties with the Bushes
More reasons for Mitt Romney to release tax returns, or maybe another reason why he hasn’t released his tax returns Ties with Team Bush, part 1 To be clear, the foremost reason why a candidate for the White House should release financial records is principle. The public has a right to know of any [...]
Today’s history lesson: CaterAir, George W. Bush (and Marriott)
Today’s history lesson: CaterAir, George W. Bush (and Marriott) In July 2003, the founder of the Carlyle Group, David Rubenstein, chatted with company investors and made several tape-recorded comments about a former director at one Carlyle subsidiary. The subsidiary was an ill-fated airline-food company named CaterAir International Corporation, a spin-off from Marriott, and the director [...]
The Colorado shootings: There were danger signs
Colorado shooter’s stockpiling an arsenal was a danger sign As word got out about the high-tech arsenal and combat gear amassed by Aurora, Colo., shooter James Holmes, some elements on the right immediately seized on the factual news as basis for supposititious theories. Predictably the theories are being circulated by email. The main narrative [...]
“When life gives you lemons, shoot people”–James Holmes shows up on Twitter after all
“When life gives you lemons, shoot people.” James Holmes on Twitter? Before going more to the plethora of evidence that James Eagan Holmes acquired his arsenal on the Internet, here are some indications of his social media use. The New York Post reported Saturday–following TMZ, Radar Online and Mediaite–that Holmes appears to have shown up [...]
2012 self funding and the state of Florida
More on self funding in 2012 Self financing, once again, has not lighted up on the big board as one of the top political stories in 2012, and not merely because it is overshadowed by Mitt Romney’s refusal to disclose his tax returns. While there are some expensively self-financed mayor’s races, including in California–where, [...]
2012 self funded candidates: Going anywhere?
2012 self funded candidates This year, with all the rightful attention to Mitt Romney’s undisclosed tax returns and other financial records, the spotlight has moved away temporarily from some other big money–several large self-funded campaigns for federal office. But a quick check into who is self-funding suggests that the phenomenon of self-funding is continuing [...]
Political Animals hurting
Political Animals? Sigourney Weaver is terrific. She was terrific in Alien, where she started with a script not pointedly rewritten for a woman from the man’s part originally envisioned. She was good even in fluffy Galaxy Quest, and in Ghostbusters I and II, more earnest fluff; good as a damsel-in-distress psychologist and target-of-serial-killer in [...]
- Well-regulated, part 3
- “Well regulated,” part 2: Strict constructionism means paid lobbyists?
- Well regulated currency
- Bullying in Higher Education
- More on the Romney campaign’s internal polling
- William Atchison on On the Paper Trail of a Pedophile, Part 7: Atchison was connected in Florida as well as in Alabama
- Dan Laurant on Sad, pathetic jobs
- Well regulated currency | Margie Burns on The Colorado shootings: There were danger signs
- valance robinson on Trayvon Martin, question 1: Why were his hands underneath his body?
- Phil Broyles on Free Speech and Brown University
- Black Box Voting
- Boycott Huffington Post
- Disaster Accountability Project
- Government Accountability Project
- Iraqi Bundles of Love
- Law School Transparency
- Maryland Juice
- National Security Archive
- National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
- National Whistleblowers Center
- National Writers Union
- Palestinian Return Centre
- Progress Michigan
- The Association for Union Democracy
- Too Much
- UnitedRepublic
- UrukNet
- Wikileaks