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It's Time We Paid A Visit To The Elephant's Graveyard

Whoa. It's wild, the things racists don't tell you - and how there's just so much "stuff" we can fail to put it together. Like, I never knew these two guys broke the Koch Brothers story. Or that the Koch's father was a co-founder of the crazy John Birch Society. 

Getting really interesting, I also didn't know they exposed Glenn Reynolds' girl friend at The Atlantic, Megan McArdle, as having a conflict of interest - being married to a guy who did astroturf campaigns - and who worked for the Tea Party's backers, FreedomWorks. (Notice she doesn't mention that here?) 

I'd never heard the earliest Tea Party website was created BEFORE Rick Santelli did the famous rant that supposedly set the whole thing off. Or that the guy behind that website worked for Ron Paul. The same Ron Paul who, I do remember from 2009, had writings appearing in a white supremacist newsletter.

How'd anybody miss that?

Especially now that Rand Paul's mulling a run for the presidency? 

Post-Trayvon, I HAVE learned Wisconsin's Scott Walker has a staff that's racist, and the boss even once had nice things to say about David Duke. 

 While Paul Ryan could've been the Vice President quoting Charles Murray. Whoa. 

Like Martin Luther King's admonition to blacks not to work with Republicans  - while they scream MLK was one of them - it's wild the things racists don't tell you.

But I'm certainly getting an idea of where this is going now,….

 

Life Is What You Make It (If You've Won Life's Lottery)

We've got scams hidden within scams, all declaring to be fighting scams (laid out to snare the unsuspecting) by scammers. And, if you're not trained in critical thought, they'll probably scam you:

  Since 1994, the NewsHour has been produced and primarily owned by the for-profit colossus, Liberty Media. Liberty, which is run by conservative billionaire John Malone, owns the majority stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions – the entity that produces the journalistic content of the show. While other standalone public television projects are often produced by small independent production companies, the NewsHour stands out for being owned by a major for-profit media conglomerate headed by a politically active billionaire. 

 That guy, and the Koch Brothers, and all the rest, probably have a blast laughing at those who think they know what's going on,…

 

Glenn Reynolds Said We Can Win By Losing (Number II)

Hey, conservative Darth Vader, there seems to be another disturbance in The Force:

   The government shutdown and looming threat of default have pitted House conservatives against the Republican Party's traditional allies in the business community. Populist Tea Partiers driven by ideology care little for the pleas for sanity from banking lobbyists and the Chamber of Commerce; indeed, they wear their disregard for Big Business as a badge of honor.

Where does that leave the Koch brothers? The billionaire industrialists have funded a sprawling empire of libertarian-conservative activism; they've been dubbed the bankrollers of the Tea Party. Liberals frequently accuse them of seeking deregulatory policies to further their company's financial interests. But what happens when the Tea Party's ideological warfare threatens to plunge the U.S. economy into chaos?

The answer: The Kochs appear to be distancing themselves from the movement they've helped to create. In a letter released Wednesday, Koch Industries' chief lobbyist, Philip Ellender, says the company does not favor the House's push to defund Obamacare as a condition of keeping the government open,...

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