Policing the politicians; state ethics commissions lack muscle
The North Carolina Ethics Commission has received more than 300 ethics complaints since its establishment in 2006 — but it has initiated just 18 investigations through 2010.The Tennessee Ethics...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: Americans for Prosperity launches first ad of $25 million...
On Tuesday, the conservative nonprofit Americans for Prosperity released its first ad in a $25 million campaign aimed at defeating President Barack Obama. The spot, called “President Obama: A One-Term...
View ArticleMost eligible for Obama undocumented program already working
One of the nation’s top immigration think tanks estimates that 1.76 million undocumented people could attempt to benefit from an Obama administration decision to shield them from deportation,...
View ArticleClean Water Case targets wetlands protection in North Carolina
A federal court has directed that North Carolina’s Waccamaw River watershed receive $1 million in environmental preservation projects, one piece of a broader federal effort to protect wetlands and...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Is Romney to blame for cancer death?
A grieving widower in a new pro-Obama TV spot says his wife contracted cancer and died “a short time after” Mitt Romney closed the steel plant that employed him and left “my family” without health...
View ArticlePriorities USA Ad: "Understands"
A controversial new ad from the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA.
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: Crossroads hits Democratic Senate candidates
The pro-Republican nonprofit Crossroads GPS on Wednesday announced a $3.4 million ad campaign attacking Democrats in four key Senate races.Among them is "Sense," which claims Sen. Jon Tester of Montana...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Does Obama’s plan ‘gut welfare reform?’
A Mitt Romney TV ad claims the Obama administration has adopted “a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements.” The plan does neither of those things.Work requirements are not simply...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: Republicans attack Obama over cancer ad
The Republican National Committee and pro-Republican super PAC American Crossroads are attacking President Barack Obama over an ad released by super PAC Priorities USA Action that all but calls...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Romney Hijacks Credibility
A new Mitt Romney campaign ad passes off opinions of a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush as though they were from a newspaper’s reporters or editors. It’s a political trick used by both...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Obama’s ‘Boss’ Baloney
The Obama campaign strikes another low blow with a TV spot accusing Mitt Romney of “personally” approving a notoriously abusive tax-avoidance scheme and suggesting he may have paid “zero” tax. That’s...
View ArticleOPINION: Rep. Ryan's budget plan is a "Path to the Poorhouse"
If Americans who are embracing Rep. Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” — and that now includes Mitt Romney — spent a few minutes reviewing a few recent research reports, they just might conclude that the...
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INTERACTIVE: U.S. voting technology, by county
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View ArticleElection-fraud not as common as recent voter ID laws suggest
A News21 analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37...
View ArticleLawmakers complain about monopoly space launch deal
For six years, the Air Force has relied mostly on a single, high-cost rocket manufacturer to loft its reconnaissance, communications, and GPS satellites into space and it is about to double down. In...
View ArticleVIDEO: Who can vote?
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View ArticleDaily Disclosure: RNC, nonprofit group pump up Romney’s veep pick
Republicans wasted no time in pumping up Mitt Romney’s choice as vice presidential running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., touting the GOP’s new dynamic duo as “America’s Comeback Team.”The “comeback”...
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