By a vote of 217 to 212, the House approved additional spending for "shovel-ready" construction projects and money to avoid layoffs of teachers, police and other public employees. No Republicans voted for [...]
Earlier today, Steve Kelley sent an email out to supporters asking for money because MDE and the MNGOP were beating up on him. You can see the picture here. I broke this story on Twitter this morning. To get more news faster, follow me on twitter.
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"If you think this movement is more circus sideshow than actual threat, you'd be mistaken. Republican candidates are falling all over each other to get [Sarah] Palin's endorsement, and the tea party movement is responding. Money is pouring in.
"Either we match the passion and activism [...]
Congressman Collin Peterson, a blue dog Democrat, from Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District seems to be contemplating a possible retirement.
Peterson spent more than he took in last quarter: raised 110K, spent nearly 130K. That’s a burn rate of 120% – a lot of that money was given away to the DCCC [...]
Several local media outlets have picked up on the story about Kelliher’s fundraising flap:
Star Tribune: Donations raise controversy for Kelliher, DFL
The DFL Party calls 7 donations to aid the gubernatorial candidate’s access to voter data “a blunder.”
Seven donors gave the DFL Party money that benefited House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher [...]
Where did all that stimulus money go? No one knows, really, but every now and then information comes to light about the bill's beneficiaries. Like, for example, the fact that a Minneapolis puppet theater got $25,000.
What's stimulating about sock puppetry? To some, that's a silly question. Barack Obama displayed his' [...]
On the Wayne Moran Photography site on facebook we have been discussing how to get money from people that have stolen your images Wayne Moran Photography .
Like I had promised you here is the killer letter that gets results. This is the letter that you send to companies that have stolen your [...]
In an earlier post, MDE linked to a story from MPR about internal strife over a DFL database file. This situation could also potentially turn into a campaign finance violation. MPR says Kelliher contacted the DFL to start raising money for her campaign for Governor:
Kelliher wasn’t available to comment [...]
As we have noted many times, the United States is the only country in the world that deliberately fails to develop its own energy resources. Other than instituting price controls, this is the single most destructive economic policy that a country can pursue, which is why no one does it [...]
According to Star Tribune’s HotDishPolitics, former State Rep. Matt Entenza made his second out of state fundraiser last night to drum up support in Washington, D.C.
One of the host members is Terry McAullife who also spent millions of dollars of his own money and was recently trounced in the [...]
RYBAK’S BROKEN PROMISES ON CAMPAIGN CASH
2001 Rybak Promised Not To Take PAC Money; Now Rybak Rakes In PAC Money. “Rybak version 2001 scorned contributions by political action committees. His 2009 campaign committee reported $9,000 in PAC contributions by Sept. 1, all but five at the maximum election-year level of $500.” [...]
The Legislators are eager to actually do something to earn their per diems so they are throwing out all sorts of ways to spend more money. Yes, the very same Government that is headed straight for another huge budget deficit, is falling over itself bragging about all the fancy new [...]
As I noted yesterday, ACORN caught a break from the Department of Justice when DOJ decided, based on a strained reading of the applicable statute, that the Obama administration can lawfully pay ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to [...]
The Holder Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group. Here is the Office of Legal Counsel memo reaching this conclusion.
OLC analysis is tortured. Congress [...]
With all of the time, money and effort that parents and churches invest in the spiritual growth of children, we find ourselves often wondering if there is really any statistical connection between childhood faith and adult religious commitment. A recent study by the Barna Group provides new insights into [...]
Abe Pollin, owner of the Washington Wizards and former owner of the Washington Capitals, died yesterday at age 85. Pollin brought basketball and hockey to Washington, DC. He also built two arenas with his own money, the Capital Center in the 1970s and the MCI (now Verizon) Center in the [...]
Yes, the old standard. "How do you know a politician is lying? His lips are moving."
John Stossel on how they continue to lie to us. And, the money quote:
Medicare is already $37 trillion in the hole. Yet the Democrats proudly cite Medicare when they demand support for the health [...]
The Congressional Budget Office had predicted that the recession would start to recover by the second half of 2009 without the government doing anything. Well we’ve spent all this money, it’s fair to see how it’s working out.
Per statistics from the Department of Labor
Well hell, I’d feel [...]
A $100 million here, a $100 million there, and sooner or later it starts adding up to real money.Al Gore has made an enormous amount of money by pretending to know something about science. He is by no means the first such charlatan, but he must be one of the most successful. A week or two ago, when we interviewed National Review's John Derbyshire on our radio show, [...]
Year after year states build their budgets around what they expect to raise in tax revenue for the upcoming fiscal year. This means that states budget revenue for programs and services with money they currently do not have. More often [...]
And I use the phrase "at work" advisedly.
• Three of every four stimulus grants, contracts and loans approved in Michigan created or retained one job or less.
• Fewer than 700 awards had received some money, and nearly half of those -- 327 -- had created one job or less, [...]
Link here. Money Quote.
Most investing is done by active managers who don't believe markets are efficient. For example, despite my taunts of the last 45 years about the poor performance of active managers, about 80% of mutual fund wealth is actively managed. Hedge funds, private equity, and other alternative asset classes, which have [...]
