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Wiretap: Russian interference, Wall Street’s boom and how Trump is gaslighting...

CIA v. The Donald The CIA says the evidence that Russians interfered in the election on behalf of Donald Trump has become overwhelming. Donald Trump...

Littwin: Bernie Sanders is losing. Did all that yelling help?

It was the ninth Democratic debate, and even though Bernie Sanders seems to be winning of late, he's actually losing in the popular vote,...

Wiretap: What did Hillary Clinton say to Goldman Sachs?

Goldman Sachs It's 2016 and Clinton still doesn't know how to answer the question about the big-money speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs. Via Politico. Words count Ralph Nader...

Wiretap: Too far? Political campaigns turn to biometrics and neuromarketing

Creepy campaigns No secret: Political campaigns want data on voters. But the days of polling are now moving into a more subtle form of information...

Wiretap: Sanders the insurrectionist vs. Clinton the reformer

Reform revolution Peter Beinart explains the real difference between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton: One is an insurrectionist and one an incrementalist. Clinton's bet is...

Littwin: Hillary shined, Bernie fought, and the rest were not so...

In the end, it seemed too easy. Hillary Clinton didn't just win the first Democratic debate. She pretty much eliminated - for her purposes,...

Sanders bids Summers adieu

The statement is being passed around the Web as a perfect articulation of one (large) school of thought on the Summers nomination.

Obama in Denver promises action, with or without Congress

DENVER-- As anticipated, President Obama this morning detailed his plan to use an executive order to ease the burden of student loan debt that presently presses down on tens of millions of Americans. Speaking in shirt sleeves and drawing on his own struggles with student debt as a young man, husband and father, Obama told the energized crowd in an event center hall on the downtown university Auraria Campus that he was determined for the foreseeable future to act wherever possible to relieve economic distress in the country without going through the gridlocked Congress.

Tea Party king Erickson grits teeth, concedes Occupy movement basically right

First came the broke unemployed drummers and poets, then the debt-ridden students, then the retired couples whose pensions and real estate holdings have withered, then the tourists, then, slowly, the journalists. on Friday, the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has been thrumming along gathering force and supporters across the country and around the world for more than a month now, won a reluctant endorsement from a chief critic, Tea Party blog king Erick Erickson at Red State.

Anti-regulation U.S. Chamber of Commerce pouring record sums into lobbying

The Obama years have so far been a predictable boom-time for the army of anti-regulation lobbyists paid by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Center for Responsive Politics reports that the Chamber spent $276 million over the past two years lobbying against, among other things, health care reform, environmental protections and Wall Street regulations. The Chamber is the number-one spender on lobbying this year as in years past, but it is outdoing itself, setting records in its own outrageous largess. In just the last three months of 2010, the Chamber spent $50.9 million on lobbying at the federal, state and grassroots levels. That's a step down from last year, when in the last financial quarter as health and financial industry reform were being discussed in DC, the Chamber spent $79 million from October through December to defeat or water-down Democratic legislation.
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