The Sunlight Foundation scored a major scoop this month with a report indicating that “Independent” candidate for Senate Lisa Murkowski signed documents for the “Independent” group Alaskans Standing Together to certify that the group wasn’t working “in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, any candidate.” In other words, Lisa [...]

With movies like Speechless and TV shows like The West Wing out there, you might conclude that campaign work is glamorous and glossy. Reality can be a lot different. FEC records show that Cathy Bauman has been compensated just $579 for a month’s work as a canvasser on behalf of the campaign of Senator Michael [...]

“The duties currently imposed by the United States were set in an era during which high rates of duty were intended to protect production of footwear in the United States…. Footwear duties, which are higher on lower price footwear, serve no purpose…” –

According to the latest available public opinion poll, Republican David Vitter is 18 points ahead of conservative Democrat Charlie Melancon in the Louisiana Senate race, and with Melancon’s fundraising at half of Vitter’s he doesn’t seem liable to catch up. So why, according to the latest reports by the FEC, is the American College of [...]

With the advent of unlimited independent expenditures in the Spring of 2010, corporate political groups have been unleashed to influence congressional elections as they and their undisclosed individual contributors see fit. But although individual contributors to these corporate groups remain shrouded, the activity of the corporate groups themselves is tracked on a daily basis by [...]

The way our economy is set up now, if American corporations really want to ship all their factories and jobs overseas, they can. But should the government reward that behavior? Under the tax code, that’s just what the government does today. Corporations today can get tax deductions and tax credits for firing American workers and [...]

Dan Coats, running for the U.S. Senate after selling his house in Virginia and his other house in North Carolina so he could buy a new house in Indiana, admits that he’s made lots of money as a corporate lobbyist in Washington, DC, where he worked to keep jobs away from America and in cheaper [...]

“Please don’t tell me I’m a Republican tool.” So said Tea Party Express head Mark Williams last week as he announced his organization’s list of “Tea Party Heroes” and “Tea Party Targets” for the congressional races of 2010. Every single one of the 11 Tea Party Express targets for 2010 is a congressional Democrat. Not [...]

When the Senate Homeland Security Committee held its hearing yesterday on “Making Government More Transparent And Accountable,” it managed the transparency part of the task rather well. Of all members of the committee, only Senator Thomas Carper was visible for any part of the hearing. Our government can really produce amazing feats. What do you [...]

In the fall of 2009, five American citizens were arrested in Lackawanna, New York on terrorism charges. The only weapon found in these men’s possession was a rifle in one of their homes. No plot for attacks of any sort by the men was uncovered, either before the arrests or afterward. Eventually, they were convicted [...]