Not surprised. We uncovered the lid on Koster’s shady campaign financing back in 2008. Hobbits Source Blog: While exploring the Missouri Ethics Commission web site I found an oddity under one particular committee name that deserved a closer look, Koster for Leadership Committee. Koster for Leadership, a Missouri committee, contains just one transaction in the […]

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Yesterday, President Obama announced his plan to deal with the massive tax hike scheduled for January 1st under current law: he’ll allow that tax hike to hit small businesses while putting it off for another year for other taxpayers. As The Wall Street Journal editors put it today, “So the 2013 tax cliff is a […]

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“Conservative Republican” John Brunner’s conservative bona fides have taken quite a hit these last couple of weeks. First, he basically throws his children under the bus after it was revealed that a charity he and his wife control gave money to a radical animal rights group. Next, we learn that he donated money (here and […]

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Last month in his major speech on threats to the First Amendment at AEI, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell warned, “[I]f disclosure is forced upon some but not all, it’s not an act of good government, it’s a political weapon. And that’s precisely what those who are pushing [legislation like the DISCLOSE Act] have in […]

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