Carson: I won't be silenced | TheHill“We need to mature beyond that level,” he continued. “If you submit to that level of immaturity what are you doing to your society? What we need to do is grow our society into a level of maturity that they can understand principles that are being stated, rather than focus on a word and...
Gallup gives up the horse race - POLITICOBut after a bruising 2012 cycle, in which its polls were farther off than most of its competitors, Gallup told POLITICO it isn't planning any polls for the presidential primary horse race this cycle. And, even following an internal probe into what went wrong last time around, Gallup won't commit to tracking the...
These political scientists may have just discovered why U.S. politics are a disaster - The Washington PostBut new research by Nolan McCarty, a professor at Princeton University, and other political scientists suggests this disgust — and America's political dysfunction — won't be that easy to fix. Working with political scientist Boris Shor and economist John Voorheis, McCarty has released a new study that shows that the growing...
RELEASE : 2015 CPA-Zicklin Index Expands to Cover S&P 500More of America’s largest publicly traded companies are bringing sunlight to their corporate expenditures on politics, the fifth annual CPA-Zicklin Index of Political Disclosure and Accountability shows on the eve of a blockbuster election year for political spending. For the first time, the 2015 CPA-Zicklin Index has been expanded to measure...
Is pro-Bush super PAC obscuring spending? | Center for Public IntegrityBut it’s not clear that Right to Rise USA, the super PAC formed by Republican Jeb Bush prior to his presidential bid, is either. The super PAC’s biggest single vendor this year through June is a mysterious limited liability company, LKJ, LLC, whose owners are hidden behind the state of Delaware’s...
U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The Supreme Court is back in session, and it promises to be an interesting and controversial session.Supreme Court Prepares to Take On Politically Charged CasesThe last Supreme Court term ended with liberal victories, conservative disarray and bruised relations among the justices. The new one, which opens on Monday, marks the start of Chief Justice...
