The 1 Percent Solution: Koch Brothers Bankroll Right-Wing ThinkProgress Clone

The Koch Brothers are worth $50 billion. They’ve bankrolled the Tea Party, thecampaign against climate change science, and entire university departments to advance their right-wing agenda.

Corporate Profits Have Rebounded To Pre-Recession Levels, But Corporate Tax Revenue Hasn't | ThinkProgress

Over the last few decades, U.S. corporate tax revenue plunged to historic lows, falling from about 6 percent of GDPin the 1950s to barely more than 1 percent of GDP today. 

Huckabee: Super PACs Are 'One Of The Worst Things That Ever Happened In American Politics' | ThinkProgress

At least $16 million has been spent on political ads in Iowa ahead of today’s GOP caucuses.

GOP leader Cantor: 'I understand people's frustration' with Congress ~~~ 'I do Wiz Khalifa and Jaz-Z, Lil' Wayne' -- Huh?

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) pushed back against perceptions he is unwilling to compromise with President Obama and Democratic lawmakers and that he is responsible for recent partisan battles over spending.

Iowa's Million-Dollar Attack Ads | Common Dreams

The millions of dollars being lavished on attack ads in Iowa is a bad taste of things to come in the 2012 presidential election A tide is flowing through American politics: a tide of money unleashed by a supreme court decision that opened the floodgates to unlimited spending on  …

Walker On The 'Koch' Call: 'It Was Stupid'

In an interview last Friday with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, Govenor Scott Walker (R) gave perhaps his most blunt show of contrition yet for the mega-gaffe that could haunt him in the coming recall: His 20-minute phone call in February, at the hei …

How Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories May Pose a Genuine Threat to Humanity

The paranoia infecting a broad swath of the American right-wing can be comical at times -- think about Orly Taitz and her fellow Birthers. But we laugh at our own peril, because what Richard Hofstadter famously characterized as "the paranoid style in American  …

The Political Discourse Cookbook

Recipe's for skewering TEA Party Trojan Horse's and stewing Snakes.  How to recycle shed Snake Skins.  Dressing down Fox Droppings.  Ventilating Limbaugh Cheese.  Koch money spent on Dopes.  Cooking the "Rights Goose." All recipe's do requ …

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We the People, Not We the Corporations

On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government.

Scott Walker Recall Supporter Puts Up 'Recall The Kochsucker' Sign Outside Her Motel

The Four Winds Motel north of Baraboo, Wis., is creating a stir with its decision to show support for the recall effort against Gov.

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