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These mysteries have all been much pondered, and I won't do so here again. The question now before Komen is: Can it regain the trust of all those women and men who ran 5Ks and ...
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One of these is Newt Gingrich. Or maybe both. We just don't know. via The Other 98% But the eerie similarities surely end there, right? I mean, one of them is mercurial, ...
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Since last January, super-PACs have raised nearly $93 million in preparation for the 2012 election. Of that, more than 35 percent was donated by corporations, unions, and ...
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A "John Doe" investigation launched in May 2010 has embroiled former Walker staffers and appointees from his time as Milwaukee County executive, his job before winning the ...
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Hayes is a 5-foot-3 fireplug of a man with a gentle voice and an easy grin who favors black suits when he's on the lecture circuit and sweatshirts and running shorts the rest ...
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The Marines began huge amphibious exercises—dubbed Bold Alligator 2012—off the East coast of the US last week, but someone should IM them: it won't help. No matter what ...
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The Girl Scouts have taken a lot of heat over their connection to Planned Parenthood, too. The cancer foundation is changing its story. Again. Critics claim the leading breast ...
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When Restore Our Future, the super-PAC backing Mitt Romney, disclosed its latest donors last week, the roster of deep-pocketed funders seemed fairly predictable. The biggest ...
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Grappling with a decisive loss to Mitt Romney in the GOP's Nevada Caucus last night, Newt Gingrich unleashed one of his sharpest attacks ever on the front-runner. "If you ...
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Downtown Elko: Mojorider2/FlickrAmerica is full of small towns that bolster our national identity even though most of us rarely visit them. They are repositories of ...
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Putin's grip on Russia: Over the two-plus decades since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Vladimir Putin has been in charge for more than half the time. Currently prime ...
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MacKinnon starts out with a world tour of cyberdystopia, detailing the ways in which the freedom and security of activists and dissidents around the world are already under ...
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Mother Jones: Let's start with SOPA/PIPA. The narrative so far has been that the Internet beat Big Hollywood and Big Brother, but it seems a bit more complicated. Could this ...
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When it comes to manipulating charitable giving for personal and political ends, Newt Gingrich wrote the book. In 1997, his charity work won him the dubious distinction of ...
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In 2010, Mitt Romney and his wife gave just under $3 million to charity, or about 15 percent of their $21.6 million income. That's a sizeable sum even by 1 percenter ...
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Why a fight to exclude a 7-year-old could mean no Thin Mints for you.
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Fans tend to fixate on the money and glamour of the football job, so that when this past season was threatened by labor-management strife, it was easy for National Football ...
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Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and ...
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Now I'm obviously biased on this issue; I've written on this site about the experience of raising turkeys for meat in my Berkeley backyard. But when I read through the ...
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Obama first sought to avoid the Keystone controversy by putting off a decision until after the election. But Republicans in Congress forced his hand, inserting a provision ...
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The basics: Syria is an Arab country with more than 22 million people; it borders many of the major players in the Middle East (Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey) and is ...
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Lots of numbers are being thrown around since Mitt Romney (finally) released his tax returns last week: 13.9 percent tax rate, nearly $43 million income in two years, 10 ...
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Thirty-four years ago, Newt Gingrich summed it up. In a speech to College Republicans—shortly before he would win his first election to Congress—the future speaker had a ...
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For data crunchers and political reporters on the money trail, today is something of a holiday. Call it Super-PAC Tuesday. Below are the highlights from Super-PAC Tuesday, ...
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As soon as April, millions of Wisconsinites will vote on whether to oust Gov. Scott Walker—a rising Republican star and arguably the most polarizing governor in politics ...
