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The ACORN scandal, then and now

By | 03.05.10 | 3:36 pm

This week the Brooklyn D.A.’s office concluded a four-month investigation into the controversial ACORN sting videos produced last fall and found no criminality carried out by the organization. On the contrary, it found that the people behind the tapes, James…

Phone-tamperer O’Keefe’s bad week gets worse: Judge rules ACORN defunding unconstitutional

By | 01.29.10 | 10:33 am

James O’Keefe has admitted spearheading a misguided “phone-tampering” operation at Sen. Mary Landieu’s office in New Orleans this week. “As an investigative journalist, my goal is to expose corruption and lack of concern for citizens by government and other…

Conservatives edge away from anti-ACORN filmmaker caught in wiretap scandal

By | 01.27.10 | 8:54 am

On Monday morning, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, both age 24, dressed up as telephone company workers and walked into the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). Inside the office, waiting for them, was James O’Keefe, the 25-year-old conservative activist who posed as a pimp in 2009 for a series of undercover videos that badly damaged the national community organization ACORN. As Basel and Flanagan clumsily worked on the phones, O’Keefe was recording them for a reason that remains unknown. When the “repairmen” and accomplices were asked for ID, they gave themselves up and were arrested.

The ACORN Obsession, holiday version

By | 12.08.09 | 10:30 am

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., one week off of his ACORN forum, tweets evidence that the White House served ACORN-shaped treats at a Christmas party last night.

Stacked GOP ACORN hearing finds reason to investigate further

By | 12.01.09 | 8:45 pm

WASHINGTON– As legislators streamed into the room around him, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, peered over his glasses at the roughly 60 people who’d come to this special hearing.

“I’m glad to see this turnout so early in the day,” said Smith. (The hearing began at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday) “Today’s hearing is an opportunity for Republicans to move forward on this issue of importance to the American people.”

Charter school looks to win review from new Doug Co school board

By | 11.12.09 | 10:12 am

The Douglas County Board of Education election, it seems, still isn’t over. Early this week, Douglas County informed the Douglas County School District that it would not be able to certify the election in time to swear in the new slate of charter school-friendly, Republican-backed, “reform” candidates for the next board meeting.

Ugly Douglas County GOP campaign alienated Republicans

By | 11.03.09 | 8:20 am

Even if the Douglas County Republican Party candidates win the Douglas County School Board election today, the battle may come at the cost of wider party support.

Marilyn Musgrave in New York rallies the conservative troops

By | 11.02.09 | 4:35 pm

What does it look like when the arch-conservatives come to town? They’re swarming places like Watertown in upstate New York, where semi-qualified Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is running for Congress and drawing national media attention along with…

Senators slug it out while unemployed suffer

By | 10.26.09 | 9:02 am

WASHINGTON — A protracted partisan U.S. Senate skirmish has left hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans without unemployment benefits — an impasse that Democrats leaders are hoping to break this week. They have their work cut out for them.

Who hates ACORN most? Rep. Steve King makes his case

By | 10.21.09 | 4:52 pm

A “corrupt criminal organization” that caused the global financial crisis. That’s right. But Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is not referring to any bonus-loving cowboys’ Wall Street hedge fund or renegade bank department. He is speaking about that low-income housing and…