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Relevance: 47% Posted on: March 12, 2009
Blagojevich is out! Quinn is in! There is gubernatorial hope for corruption-riddled Illinois. Now, admittedly, I don’t agree with Governor Pat Quinn on every issue. But few governors can boast Quinn’s long record as an anti-establishmentarian reformer. In April of last year, Pat Quinn, then Illinois’s lieutenant governor, was pushing…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: February 10, 2017
Romania’s parliament has confidence in . . . itself. Sorta. A parliamentary no-confidence vote failed, despite 161 lawmakers voting for the resolution and only eight voting with the government. Confused? The no-confidence measure failed because the Social Democrats, controlling nearly two-thirds of the 465 seats in parliament, abstained on the…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: November 21, 2019
One reason to talk about corruption a lot is that there is a lot of corruption to talk about. The scheme was to get Kaiser Permanente to buy 20,000 copies of her children’s book, Healthy Holly, at a decidedly non-discounted price of $5 a pop, while the health provider was…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: May 26, 2014
While running for the Senate, Elizabeth Warren informed Lawrence O’Donnell and his MSNBC audience that she didn’t understand how Congressfolk could keep playing the stock market while in office. She trotted out the notion of stock management via blind trusts. She and O’Donnell understand that members of Congress have apparently…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: January 31, 2019
Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster’s feet there are left the mountains.Robinson Jeffers, “Shine, Perishing Republic” (1939).
Relevance: 46% Posted on: January 5, 2009
The name. The hair. The gall. Illinois Governor Rod Blogojevich is getting lots of attention. However, the governor’s favor-trading is unique only in blatancy. The longer politicians hold power, the more readily they regard pay-to-play corruption as acceptable, profitable. Which is one reason I advocate initiative rights, term limits, mandatory…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: August 29, 2017
Last week, when President Donald Trump abandoned his previous policy position on getting U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in favor of continuing the establishment-supported policy of keeping those troops there, he was very well-received in our nation’s capital. NeverTrumper/neo-con Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) spoke of Mr. Trump’s “smarts” and “moral…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: November 8, 2012
If your candidate or issue didn’t win on Tuesday, then, sure, Western civilization is completely finished, kaput. No doubt. But still, let’s look at the bright side. At least the presidential election provided a $2.5 billion stimulus to the economy, without raising anyone’s taxes (yet) or borrowing a nickel from…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: August 3, 2009
For the millions of people living in New Jersey, who’ve never been arrested on corruption charges, this one’s for you. Recently, the FBI arrested 44 folks there, including two state legislators and three mayors. Big news, I guess, but hardly unusual by Jersey standards. The U.S. Attorney says the state’s…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: November 7, 2011
“Too little, too late.” I am not alone to suspect that the Occupy movement — the 99 percenters — started its protest against corporate greed and government cronyism several years too late. Where were the Occupiers when the Tea Party protests started? Dancing in the streets over the Obama presidency?…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: October 12, 2017
What is corruption? said no jesting Pilate ever. But please, stay for an answer. A week ago, Jimmie Moore pleaded guilty to filing a false campaign finance report in order to conceal a $90,000 payment to drop out of a congressional race. Moore is a former Philadelphia judge (heavens). The…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: July 12, 2011
Not long ago on Townhall.com I briefly told the tale of two journalists, both arrested for taking pictures at a public meeting. This stunk of tyranny, to me. “Government cameras on citizens? Dangerous. Citizen lenses trained on government? Essential safety devices.” What I didn’t mention was that the public meeting…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: July 22, 2015
Common Cause says its job is “Holding Power Accountable.” Robert Reich is the pre-eminent “people’s progressive” propagandist of our time, promoting himself as on the side of underdogs and against corporate power structures. After the Wisconsin John Doe probe was judicially squelched, last week, Reich promoted Common Causes’s official reaction,…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: January 24, 2000
Campaign finance reform is a hot topic. Senator John McCain of Arizona has made it the number one issue in his presidential campaign. When politicians talk about changing a system that so greatly benefits them, well, like most Americans, I'm pretty skeptical. McCain has talked a lot about the corruption…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: April 21, 2024
What did they know and when did they know it? This classic question, derived from Senator Howard Baker and the Watergate brouhaha of the 1970s, continues to echo as we uncover each new scandal. But no one is calling the pandemic debacle as “COVIDgate” or “WuhanGate” or even “FauciGate,” for…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: July 28, 2015
In the 15 states where voters have enacted term limits for their state representatives and senators, those politicians — along with the lobbyists and heads of powerful interests seeking the favor of those politicians — constantly complain that the limits are a big problem. I know they’re right. In fact,…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: December 23, 2014
Some people sighed a big sigh this last week: a few with a grateful, “at long last” sense of relief; others with all the hopefulness that Sisyphus must’ve felt each time he put shoulder to boulder at the bottom of the mountain, and started rolling his fated rock up the…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: February 15, 2018
“Two Baltimore detectives were convicted Monday of robbery and racketeering,” the Washington Post reported, “in a trial that laid bare shocking crimes committed by an elite police unit and surfaced new allegations of widespread corruption in the city’s police department.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise presented the jury with “things…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: February 17, 2011
During the last few weeks of Egyptian unrest, a phrase got bandied about with an unusual degree of assumed support: Term limits. We heard of their importance from The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, and other news sources, some of which would normally pooh-pooh any push to establish,…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: December 8, 2011
It has been alleged that Brazil’s Labor Minister, Carlos Lupi, had demanded kickbacks from “charities and non-governmental organizations in exchange for funding from the ministry.” He has also been accused of receiving both a state and a federal government salary. Such talk has undermined his ability to work for the…