Talking Points Memo: Feds Say Big GOP Donor Lampooned Elderly Investors In $200M Ponzi Scheme *March 17, 2011-* Timothy Durham, the chief executive officer of National Lampoon, Inc., who donated major money to Republican candidates, was arrested by the FBI Wednesday for allegedly running a $200 million Ponzi scheme. The indictment said that ...
Iowa Rep. Pat Murphy after collective bargaining vote WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Center For Public Integrity: Haley Barbour’s money juggernaut for 2012 *March 11, 2011-* In a few weeks one of Washington’s political grande dames, Julie Finley, will host a fundraiser for Haley Barbour, who boasts a Midas-like rolodex of his own. On March 2, the two-term Mississippi governor and prospective ...
Talking Points Memo: Wis. GOP State Senator Brings In National-Level Campaign Talent *March 17, 2011-* In a sign of just how high the stakes could be for the the potential state Senate recalls in Wisconsin, in the wake of the recent passage of Gov. Scott Walker's anti-public employee union bill, one of the targeted Republican ...
Thom Hartmann: Taxing millionaires & billionaires? with Rep Jan Schakowsky WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
The Nation: Meet US Uncut *March 17, 2011-* Last month, journalist Johann Hari wrote an article for The Nation called “How to Build a Progressive Tea Party” in which he detailed the sudden and rapid evolution of UK Uncut, a British movement formed to curb corporate tax ...
eNews.Com: Koch Paper Mill Profits from Weak Pollution Regulation *March 16, 2011-* An Arkansas paper mill owned by Koch Industries pumps out massive amounts of pollution in violation of the Clean Water Act, according an enforcement complaint filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) ...
RecallTheRepublicans.com - Green Bay WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Talking Points Memo: Progressive Groups Step Up Recall Ad Campaign *March 17, 2011-* They've asked the voters, they've filled the airwaves and now they're getting down to business: Starting Thursday, a coalition of national progressives is openly calling for the recall of several Republican state Senators in ...
Mike Papantonio: GOP's Union Busting is Theft WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Talking Points Memo: Madison On The Potomac: Labor Protesters Storm Lobbyists' Lobby In DC *March 17, 2011-* For about 30 minutes Wednesday afternoon, a group of a couple hundred union workers, labor activists and progressives turned the lobby of a DC office building into a mini-Wisconsin State Capitol. In a microcosm of the fight between ...
Huffington Post: Wisconsin Union Law Challenge Filed By Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne *March 16, 2011-* Republican lawmakers violated Wisconsin's open meetings law when they amended a contentious plan that bars most public employees from collective bargaining, a Madison prosecutor alleged in a lawsuit Wednesday. Dane County District ...
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