Koch’s web of influence

John Aloysius Farrell reports for The Center for Public Integrity (via Reader Supported News): “Charles and David Koch, the owners of the country’s second-largest private corporation, are libertarians of long standing, who contend that government regulat…

Rand Paul: ‘Principled Libertarian’? Not.

Kathy Pollitt writes for The Nation: “I’m guessing Robert Scheer wrote his Truthout piece praising Rand Paul as “a principled libertarian in the mold of his father, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas” (“…we need more of that impulse in the Congress”) before the m…

Flock Is Now a Fight Team in Some Ministries

R. M. Schneiderman writes for The New York Times: “Mr. Renken’s ministry is one of a small but growing number of evangelical churches that have embraced mixed martial arts — a sport with a reputation for violence and blood that combines kickboxing, wrest…

Not Every Woman Supports Women’s Rights

NOW PAC Chair Kim Gandy said, “Sen. John McCain’s choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate is a cynical effort to appeal to disappointed Hillary Clinton voters and get them to vote, ultimately, against their own self-interest.”