From the FEC’s “Campaign Guide for Nonconnected Committees”, under the subhead “discounts”: If a corporation or labor organization sells goods or services to a political committee at a price below the usual or normal charge, a prohibited contribution results in the amount of the discount. 100.52(d). A reduced price is not considered a contribution, however, if it is offered by the vendor in the ordinary course of business and at

Seems General Betray Us managed to overcome the Democratic Congressional / true conservative “mandate” to bring the troops home now! The new center, it won’t be happy about this. No sir. I expect additional purges. Physics tells us, after all, that the center simply cannot hold when there are so many pro-Petraeus centrists gumming up the works and pulling the unified narrative apart like so much string cheese. The answer?

In western diplomatic circles, this isn’t called capitulation. It’s called flexibility. From Reuters: Six years after the September 11 attacks, a few cautious voices are beginning to suggest the unthinkable — maybe it is time to consider talking to al Qaeda. The idea will revolt some people and raises obvious questions — through what channels could such a dialogue take place and what would there be to negotiate? But proponents

“Confirmed: NYT gave MoveOn almost two-thirds off on ‘Betray Us’ ad”: The New York Times dramatically slashed its normal rates for a full-page advertisement for MoveOn.org’s ad questioning the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. Headlined “Cooking the Books for the White House,” the ad which ran in Monday’s Times says Petraeus is “a military man constantly at war with the facts” and concluded