The Myths in Robert Samuelson’s Campaign Finance Myths

Robert Samuelson’s syndicated column defending the deregulation of campaign finance has appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country this week. Samuelson has written down what he believes to be three “myths” regarding campaign finance law. Let’s look at each …

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Frank VanderSloot, Billionaire Finance Co-Chair of Mitt Romney Campaign, is an Anti-Free Speech Censorship Bully

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If you write anywhere on the web, you need to write out the words in the title. You need to write them because they are the truth. You need to write them because somebody is trying to squash that truth …

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Americans Elect Says it will Answer Any Questions on February 12 at 6pm Eastern. Will It Really?

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Update, 2/12/2012 @9:18PM: The Short Answer is “No.” The long answer is that Americans Elect refused to answer any probing, difficult questions. The affair, unfortunately, was a public relations event, not a democratic one. See details here. There’s a 501c4 …

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Jon Stewart Too Busy Talking With Actors To Interview Presidential Candidate

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About 25 times more Minnesotans watched the Daily Show yesterday evening than participated in their state’s Democratic Party presidential caucus.

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After Presidential Draft Candidate System Debuts, Who’s Talking About Americans Elect and How?

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On the last day of January 2012, Americans Elect rolled out its online voting system by which identity-verified delegates could draft candidates to appear on the ballot for the Americans Elect presidential nomination. Americans Elect has indirectly referred to the …

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31 hour Green Party Straw Poll outpulls 60 hour Americans Elect Candidate Draft

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At 11 AM on Wednesday February 1 2012, Green Party Watch started an online presidential straw poll. 31 hours later, at the time when the straw poll was scheduled to close, 1689 people had voted, each for one candidate. The …

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How Can Christians Object To Homosexuality In The Star Wars Universe?

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Leviticus declares that “You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind”. That’s men and women. It doesn’t say anything about what ewoks or wookies should do.

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Calls for an End to Professional and Amateur Football

It’s increasingly clear that even small concussions are bad for the brain. Responding to this, a spokesman for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the health of players is his top priority: “NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has made player health and …

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What We’re Saying About Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney (January 20 2012)

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The most frequently used words to describe Newt Gingrich on Twitter, 1/20/12 222: debate 153: marriage 135: wife 131: open 122: romney 119: cnn 101: ex 82: gop 71: media 68: carolina 63: news 62: south 61: santorum 54: question …

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Gingrich: How DARE Anyone Go After My Private Life! Um, Like I Did With Clinton and The Gays

Watch this debate moment from tonight. How DARE Gingrich act indignant that someone bring up his “open marriage” in a debate. The point is not his private conduct. The point is that he cheated and wanted to redefine marriage at …

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Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson Take Different Approaches To Opposing SOPA

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Jill Stein posted a short, stark graphic against the Stop Online Piracy Act. Rocky Anderson wrote a long essay against SOPA. Which tactic do you think was more effective?

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It’s Occupy Congress Media Coverage Noun Substitution Time

Reuters reports on Occupy Congress: After a morning rally on the Capitol’s West Lawn, protesters who had come from as far as Nevada and San Diego attempted to enter the Capitol and congressional office buildings. Let’s change one plural noun …

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Occupii Membership Steadily Growing and Decentralized

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It’s been about two weeks since Occupii.org, the new social network site for the Occupy movement, got kick started. A look at membership trends suggests that overall membership is steadily growing, and that it’s decentralized. Most people are not joining …

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Jul Creates a New Map of Occupy Arrests along with the Unemployment Rate

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Jul has just created a new, updated map plotting

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KING(er)s Say the Darndest Things

I love people; humans are so gosh-darned entertaining. “Content is king, yes. But content that matters, is KING(er).” — Bryan Kramer on marketing. “I’d like to say yes, but I don’t want my wife to find out.” — Foster Friess …

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Occupy Movement Deploys its own Social Network: Occupii

In the autumn of 2011, the Occupy movement faced social media difficulties as Yahoo blocked users from receiving messages featuring the words “Occupy Wall Street.” Google has removed websites for offending the sensibilities of hostile state. What to do? In …

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The Online Presence of OccupyColleges and Americans Elect Campus Leaders

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In the waning months of 2011, two social movements claimed to erupt on college campuses across the nation. On September 23 2011, the privatized-presidential-nomination 501c4 corporation called Americans Elect declared that it had “Americans Elect Campus Leaders” on 103 college …

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Comparing the Americans Elect and Jill Stein Twitter Networks: What Grassroots Looks Like

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A few days ago, when I graphed the network of Twitter posts mentioning Americans Elect, one of the immediately apparent features of that network was the central role in tweets issued by representatives of the mainstream news media, in varying …

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