As we’ve written before, the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS should concern anyone with a political opinion. All it takes is a change in leadership and suddenly one’s group might find itself on the wrong end of an audit.
Or it might just take one overzealous Senator with a control issue, as was the case with Diane Feinstein and the Marijuana Policy Project.
We don’t get as much of the taxpayer’s money to spend in our districts and to spread around to our friends as the Democrats do. Boo hoo.
If one is going to grandstand and pontificate about the failures of the current minimum wage, and how $22/hour is the only fair rate of pay for unskilled workers, perhaps it would make sense to pay one’s interns such a wage. Or how about even a wage.
This kid will go far.
The source is completely partisan. I try to avoid using such sources generally, but this video is great. Howard Dean is like, “Dude, where are you going with this? I thought you were our boy.” And Maher is for the most part. But he is given to moments of honesty. This is one of them.
Chuck Todd the NBC News Political Director (who I once interned for) just went on Morning Joe and explained that the supposed “liberal” media bias is a myth. That is the reason he explains, why many “conservatives” won’t come on #oldmedia news shows anymore. The problem, according to Todd, is that the younger staffers of these leaders have bought into this myth.
Mungowitz explains the power of a focused minority in American politics.
Interesting report from the wilds of Utah.
Farm Bureau is an insurance company which in Virginia guards the gate to all farming legislation jealously. In the past, bills having to do with agriculture in the Commonwealth had to be blessed by the company.
Considering his customer base (of which I am a member) I can see how calling the signature achievement of President Obama “fascism” might not be the best thing for business.
