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Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged Commentary

ALEC may have violated Minnesota campaign finance ruling

By | 08.11.11 | 11:53 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

A Twin Cities event hosted this spring by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) likely violated a 16-year old ruling by the Minnesota campaign finance board. The group, which brings together corporations and state lawmakers to create and distribute conservative legislation, failed to register a lobbyist with the state More…

Can There Be a Decent Right?

By | 04.17.09 | 10:50 am

Commentary’s Abe Greenwald doesn’t see anything wrong with forcing a detainee into a “confinement box” for an hour and allowing him to believe that he’ll be stung to death by the unspecified thing that he can’t see but that’s crawling on him. He must have read “1984″ as More…

An Apocalypse for the Rest of Us

By | 03.30.09 | 12:56 pm

From the treasure trove of conservative apocalyptic predictions that actually sound pretty good comes this piece today in the neocon magazine, Commentary. The article describes the ideologically driven conditions being placed on General Motors as a result of the government bailout, arguing that “GM will be used to More…