Day: July 23, 2012

You absolutely have to watch Matt Taibbi explains how the ongoing LIBOR rate-fixing scandal is tantamount to the biggest insider trading scheme we could ever imagine. As Taibbi noted, average folks like you and I are affected by the LIBOR rate-fixing scandal because local governments tend to lose money when…

This is just plain dumb… Control of the state Senate could flip again in less than four months, but that’s not stopping Democratic leaders from having a dozen senators – more than one-third of the body – move offices. Republicans groused that the moves would cost taxpayers and disrupt staff,…

Of all the absolutely horrible campaign websites I’ve come across in my time on the internet, the official campaign website of New York State Senate candidate Mindy Meyer has to be the worst. Seriously….take a look at the site, and provided you’re not blind afterwards, you’ll agree with me. While…

“You don’t want to generalize,” said MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough earlier today before saying that James Holmes, the suspected Aurora, Colo., shooter, was “on the autism scale.” “As soon as I hear about this shooting, I knew who it was. I knew it was a young, white male, probably from an…

I know I’m a little slow in getting to this, but if this isn’t the definition of irony, I don’t know what is. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde campaigns against federal farm subsidies, even though his realty firm collected nearly $8,000 from the government under a program benefiting tobacco…

Is Wisconsin a battleground state that’s up for grabs in the November presidential election? According to a report by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert it just might be. Why have the presidential ad wars, raging in more than half a dozen other states since May, largely bypassed Wisconsin so far?…