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Tactic #14: Housewives and handgrenades

hudgeon wrote 1 week ago: I’ll end my exploration of the clusters in this data set by looking at the 14th largest cluste … more →

Tags: Risk, Clusters, Data Analysis

Niranjan Shah Contributions

admin wrote 2 weeks ago: Niranjan Shah has been involved with politics for a long time.  He has donated to various political … more →

Tags: Campaign, Donations, Niranjan Shah, Politics

Tactic #10 - Forgoing the apple a day

hudgeon wrote 2 weeks ago: One of the most interesting clusters is the Hospitals/Nursing Home cluster in Texas because it repre … more →

Tags: Risk, Analytics, Data Analysis

Tactic #2: Security in numbers

hudgeon wrote 3 weeks ago: For the second largest cluster, we need to travel from LA all the way to Connecticut. This cluster c … more →

Tags: Risk, Analytics, Clusters, Data Analysis

Tactic #1: A night at the movies

hudgeon wrote 3 weeks ago: Carrying on from the previous post, the top 20 contribution clusters provide some interesting insigh … more →

Tags: Risk, Analytics, Data Analysis

US Political Contributions 2010: Cluster Analysis

hudgeon wrote 3 weeks ago: Over the past 10 years, I’ve spent much of my time pulling actionable insights out of data. Pe … more →

Tags: Risk, Analytics, Clusters, Data Analysis

Money as Free Speech: The Corporate Legal Person1 comment

euandus wrote 1 month ago: In the oral arguments on the campaign-finance law (McCain-Feingold) at the US Supreme Court, Ruth Gi … more →

Tags: Business & Government, campaign finance reform, free speech, legal person, artificial person

Riskier, More Consolidated: Meet the Post Financial Crisis World of High Finance

euandus wrote 1 month ago: As I have moved my blog, pls use the following link to view the post: http://euandus3.wordpress.com/ … more →

Tags: Business & Government, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, financial crisis, risky banking, systemic risk, executive bonus, Banking bonuses, capture theory

Corporate "Persons": Money is Free Speech

euandus wrote 1 month ago: As the blog has moved, pls use the following link to view the post: http://euandus3.wordpress.com/20 … more →

Tags: Business & Government, free speech, Campaign contributions, legal person

Corrupt Financier Bernard Madoff Supported Democrats2 comments

Michael Eden wrote 1 month ago: Take a gander at king of thieves Bernard Madoff’s political contributions.  Then explain to me … more →

Tags: Politics, Economy, Barack Obama, Democrats, Conservative Issues, Clinton, Campaign, schumer, Lehman

LittleSis - following the money never felt so fun

admin wrote 3 months ago: Ok, so we all remember the line from All the President’s Men where Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook) … more →

Tags: All the President's Men, Bob Woodward, Charles de Gaulle, Cisco Systems, Deep Throat, facebook, FEC, John Chambers, littlesis

Just How did the gambling industry influenced FL's recent gambling expansion ?

tjdy wrote 4 months ago: Casino Watch Focus previously reported that the Florida legislature passed a massive new gambling ex … more →

Tags: election, Elected Officials, Tribal Gambling

Goldman Sachs Bribery Contributions

franklynchusa wrote 4 months ago: Please read this great article on how to buy Federal aid without going to jail. Apparently Illinois … more →

Tags: Barack Obama, Blogroll, bribery, corruption, Economy, franklynchusa, News, Politics

What if political contributors paid for Health Care?

Liberty Chick wrote 4 months ago: Just a quick interesting table of stats I put together, using data from OpenSecrets.org by our frien … more →

Tags: Socialism, ACORN, campaign finance, Labor Unions, donation, Health Care, Obama budget, Tax, seiu

Turner Report: New Gaming Commission Director has long ties to gambling industry

tjdy wrote 5 months ago: Missouri Governor Jay Nixon appointed Jim Mathewson as the new Missouri Gaming Commission Director.  … more →

Tags: State Policy, State News, Loss Limit, Local News, Gaming Commission, Elected Officials

OpenSecrets.org releases 200 million government records

Randy Wilson wrote 7 months ago: “Center has enhanced its online campaign finance profiles for members of Congress. Visitors to … more →

Tags: Sunshine Resources, opensecrets.org

Ethics Week

nilesmedia wrote 8 months ago: It’s ethics week at the New Hampshire State House. Well, not really.  But a handful of ethics-relate … more →

Tags: house, Senate, legislation, New Hampshire, 2009, Insurance, Lobbyists, financial disclosure, ethics

Vice Squad!2 comments

dwallace12 wrote 8 months ago: Interesting story on the radio this morning – it seems that theft of car stereos, which was ra … more →

Tags: car stereo, theft, drugs, Trafficking, Spam, npr

Fair Representation of Nonprofits Needed1 comment

Howard Adam Levy wrote 8 months ago:     A recent article in The New York Times, Charities Give to State Campaigns, Despite Law, describe … more →

Tags: nonprofit advocacy, nonprofit funding, Nonprofit: Capacity Building, Nonprofits, fundraising, Advocacy, Charities


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