Using Americans Elect as Instrument, 3 Wall Street Tycoons dump another $420K...
In the 1980s and 1990s, a bitter argument raged among political researchers between “state autonomy” theorists who asserted that the American state could at times act independently and “power...
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The Unpopularity of The Can Kicks Back, Part II: Campus Chapters
“The Can Kicks Back” depicts itself as a movement of young people who all “individually” decided that taxing more poor people, taxing corporations less, and cutting social programs was a keen idea. The...
View ArticleBernard Sanders Cites Pope Frances
This week, Bernard Sanders, the socialist independent U.S. Senator from Vermont, stood up in front of his colleagues to quote the Pope. “I don’t usually comment much on religious matters, but I was...
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Exterminate The Dalek Commemorative Coin?
Most nations are happy to put the face of a national leader or an iconic animal on their currency. Not New Zealand. The Kiwis have chosen to place the image of a cybernetic monstrosity that seeks to...
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How To Turn Five Dollars Into Your Dream Company
GrowthHackers tweets us a storyline to tempt our fantasies of economic success: How To Turn $5 Into Your Dream Company. You don’t have to visit their link to get the secret, though. It’s already common...
View ArticleMayday PAC Answers Questions with Call to Faith and Declaration of Independence
A few days ago, I sent some questions to Mayday PAC, an outfit that says it will spend large amounts of money on American elections this year in order to stop the influence of large amounts of money in...
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In Search for more $$, Mayday PAC goes off its Plan
In its original fundraising appeals to large and small donors, the use-big-money-to-stop-big-money Mayday Super PAC declared that it would raise $12 million for spending on 2014 races (with $6 million...
View ArticleIn Further Retreat from Initial Promise, Mayday PAC to roll out more Email...
In a post two days ago, I noted the many venues and many ways in which the Mayday Super PAC and its leader Lawrence Lessig pledged to stop their fundraising juggernaut once they reached their...
View ArticleTeaParty.org: Congress Helps [cash] Obama declare [money] Martial Law [gimme...
An outfit calling itself TeaParty.org sent us the following hilarious e-mail message yesterday. I’ve replaced all actual links with the text “[LINK],” because I don’t want to reward TeaParty.org with...
View ArticleBig Money Corrodes Absolutely: Mayday Super PAC devolves into spinning...
From its inception, the Mayday PAC run by Americans Elect alumni Lawrence Lessig, Kahlil Byrd and Mark McKinnon has run on a tank of political fuel emblazoned with the words JUST TRUST US. So the...
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Can We Stamp Money Out Of Politics… With A Stamp?
The other day, when I looked at my change from the grocery store, one bill stood out in particular. It was a one dollar bill, and right next to the face of George Washington, there was printed, in red...
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Why are poor people so angry at rich people??
Question: “Why are poor people so angry at rich people??” Answer: Christina Binkley’s new article in the Wall Street Journal… “In the never-ending race to create the world’s most impractical fashion...
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Effort to Push Ranked Choice Voting in Maine Comes From Big Out Of State Money
Do Mainers want to start using ranked choice voting, a system by which candidates who successfully identify as “centrist” are most likely to win office? I don’t know; we’ll have to wait and see until...
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