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The Koch Brothers Are Back
HERE COME the big money boogeymen. Be very afraid. Yesiree, if Charles and David Koch didn’t exist, liberal fund-raisers would…The Koch Brothers Raised $249 Million at Their Latest Donor Summit
At their most recent retreat in Southern California two weeks ago, the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and 450…Koch Central Bank Freedom Partners Distributed Millions In Dark Money In 2013
WASHINGTON -- Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the central hub of the political empire of the billionaire brothers Charles and…Secret audio nails Mitch! Endangered McConnell busted humiliating himself on tape
This year Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell chose to spend Father’s Day with two GOP political sugar daddies, Charles and…Karl Rove May Yet Face The Music Over Crossroads GPS Campaign Activities
Public Citizen and Protect Our Elections are taking aim at the FEC for dropping the ball on Rove’s failure to disclose donors. Earlier this year, FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel was so frustrated by the partisanship within the panel that she took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to shake her fist at the way her Republican…
Koch-Sucker John Boehner ‘I’m Not Qualified to Debate the Science over Climate Change’ (Video)
As the President prepares to introduce new regulations using his executive authority to create a cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants John Boehner got one right when a reporter asked for his thoughts on the expected…
The Kochocracy
Via Lalo Alcaraz Another snark-filled guest post by the one, the only Will Durst, who’s having a little fun with those pesky, corporate 1%ers. Or as Will calls them, the Kochocracy. Take it away, Will: THE KOCHOCRACY In the bad old days, medieval German…
EDITORIAL: Why I Hate a Whole Generation, and Why You Should Too
(DISCLAIMER: This is effectively a hate-driven, 3,000-word screed against the worst group of people in America; so, if that’s not what you’re prepared to read, then I advise you stop here. Obviously, not every single member of this contemptible…
Judge who ended probe of Koch activities in WI regularly attends Koch-funded junkets
A federal judge who stopped Wisconsin’s criminal investigation of spending during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections regularly attends all-expense paid junkets funded by a Koch brother and other conservative interests. District Court Judge Rudolph…
Koch Brothers Revealed In Damning Film Exposé
The billionaire Koch brothers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars because they don’t want the government messing with Americans’ lives or businesses. But a film coming out this week aims to show that they’re perfectly willing to put their own thumbs on the scales of other people’s freedom, often with heartbreaking consequences. “Koch Brothers…
Rallying At Koch-Owned Facility, Nurses Experience Petcoke Pollution Firsthand
A huge mound of petcoke in a residential area of southeast Chicago. CREDIT: AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast Standing on South Burley avenue in southeast Chicago on Monday morning, Rolanda Watson-Clark began to feel droplets of moisture forming on her…
Krauthammer: Climate change is ‘superstition’ like ‘rain dance of Native Americans’
Author and Time magazine conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said earlier this week the belief in global climate change is a mere “superstition” akin to the “rain dance of Native Americans.” Talking Points Memo reported on Krauthammer…
Harry Reid: Koch Bros Are ‘Main Causes’ Of Climate Change
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says David and Charles Koch are one of the “main causes” of climate change. “While the Koch brothers admit to not being experts on the matter, these billionaire oil tycoons are certainly experts at contributing…
The Evil Koch Brothers are Planning $125 Million Spending Spree to Buy Congress
The dastardly duo are at it again. Word on the street is the Koch brothers are plotting to sink more than $125 million this year in an effort to buy Congress, outspending Republicans and Democrats combined. According to a memo titled “confidential…