From the LATimes: The Koch brothers’ attempted takeover of the libertarian Cato Institute has come to an end, at least for now. Charles and David Koch — the Kansas billionaires at the center of a network of conservative financial and intellectual influence sometimes ...read more
By Mark Ames: On Saturday, the tiny EU nation Slovakia held parliamentary elections, and the results surprised the “experts”: The center-left party Smer, derisively described as “populist” in the American media, won in a record landslide, the first time a single party will ...read more
George Monbiot certainly thinks so. It's not as nasty an argument as you might think - Monbiot divides conservative into two divisions: The clever manipulative ones who have created a conveniently self serving ideology, and the not so clever ones who swallow it. While I have many ...read more
Conservative journalism strikes again, this time sneaking around for an attack on New Yorker write Jane Mayer, whose story on the Kochs funding of the right angered many cons. For several weeks, the Daily Caller, a conservative Web site -- co-founded by Tucker Carlson and Neil ...read more
