If you wonder why Cincinnati became the go-to IRS office for non-profit exemption review, the answer’s really simple: The IRS was having trouble hiring people for low-level positions in field offices like New York or Atlanta — the kinds of workers that typically reviewed applications by nonprofits, Owens said. The answer to this was simple: …
There’s nothing quite like it unless it’s school board elections. You get a ballot in the mail for your neighborhood board, open it, look at the candidates, realize you know none of them, and then agonize for a little while as to which of these people should represent you on this most local of all …
(click here to view) David HorseyLos Angeles TimesMar 1, 2013 EditorialCartoonists.com
Me, at Facebook today after reading this story at Talking Points Memo this morning: Scalia, in oral arguments for and against the Voting Rights Act today: “This is not the kind of question you can leave to Congress.” Now we know how he feels about democracy, I guess. So is he going to legislate from …
In case you missed it. I also recommend you read Charlie Pierce’s post about the speech, and for its atmospherics out on the Mall, read his previous post as well.
The senior Senate position left open after Senator Inouye’s death last week has been filled, or will be when he’s sworn in. The State Democratic Party winnowed its lengthy list of applicants for the job down to three and submitted all three names to Governor Neil Abercrombie today. He promptly named Lt. Governor Brian Schatz …
Apparently, if Politico is to be believed (chancy, I know), the entire Republican party apparatus was sandbagged, blindsided, gobsmacked and just plain stunned at the election results of Tuesday night. The National Republican Senatorial Committee consistently had a more upbeat assessment of races in North Dakota and Montana, among others, than their Democratic counterparts. One …
Rachel Maddow’s closing monologue from her Wednesday night program, the one that begins: Ohio really did go to the president last night. And he really did win. And he really was born in Hawaii. And he really is -legitimately- President of the United States. Again.
There’s something slightly odd about this election analysis. I don’t quibble with the theory that defining Romney early in 2012 as a rich and out-of-touch capitalist was smart, but something puzzles me. The article says The strategy also caught Mr. Romney at his most vulnerable time. The Republican nominee had been damaged by the bruising …
John Scalzi: Four years ago, there were a lot of people who believed that Obama’s election heralded a material change in American politics. I would argue that it’s this one that’s the actual signifier of that change. Look: It’s one thing for a black man with a name like “Barack Hussein Obama” to win an …