…who are the moneymen behind “Americans for a Conservative Direction” and “Council for American Job Growth”: Seven technology companies and a software association – all with interests in shaping the immigration debate now underway in Congress — each spent more than $1 million on their federal lobbying efforts during the first three months of this year, new reports shows. Their spending, totaling $13.8 million, swamps the $80,000 one longtime immigration

You’ll want to wear headphones for this one, particularly if you’re at work or have impressionable youth about. But it’s worth the hassle. (thanks to Guido)

Not to diminish your work, Jimmy P, but you may as well have titled your article, “New study suggests the very same thing all the old studies — not to mention our own eyes and ears and experience — suggested, namely, that the job numbers the government puts out are manipulated, that the press who reports them are either corrupt or illiterate (and most certainly incurious), and that people have

First, the left will never ever stop.  Ever.  This you know, and this you’ve read me write about here for like, ever. But disturbingly, what we’re seeing now is a kind of very cynical politicization of grief that goes beyond grief into something else:  a desire to exact revenge against anyone, in any way, for actions committed by someone very specific, in a very specific way. And nowhere is this

Okay, so April having been tax month, I can understand the financial prioritizing by readerthat translated into a rather quiet month on the pw fundraising front.  But now that the stock market is going wild, and the economy is finally taking a dramatic turn for the better, as ABC News assures me every day it has — it’s Summer of Recovery, Episode 4:  Return of the ‘For the Children! —

For years now I’ve brayed helplessly (though with quite a bit of outside help contributing to my helplessness,, if one counts omission as an overarching narrative ploy) about “conservative” opinion leaders who aren’t driving a “conservative” agenda that isn’t by way of promoting “conservative” candidates who never were and “conservative” policies which never were and most certainly never will be. But the political winds may be shifting as full-throated conservatives