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The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the GOP's Soul

The withdrawal of Dede Scozzafava from the special election for Congress in upstate New York has predictably set off another wave of media-led hand-wringing about the health of the GOP. (See here and here, for example.) These stories are like

That Unhinged Florida Reporter: Act II

On Friday, we brought you the story of the little reporter who could…corner the market on nuttiness in under 5 sentences. As rants go, it was pretty impressive. What it lacked in eloquence or, even, coherance, it made up in

The Mau-Mauing of Rush

Rush took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to address the mau-mauing that scuttled his NFL dreams. Personally, I’m a little mystified why Rush would want to own part of a football team. Oversized, preening and pampered athletes

Fool Me Hundreds of Times: Who Gets to Clean Up ACORN?

Imagine: In the days following the public revelations of the accounting scandal at Enron, then-CEO Ken Lay convened a news conference. He forcefully expressed his disgust with the actions of his subordinates and vowed to begin “cleaning house” at the

Feds on H1N1: Sorry, We Don't Have a Line-Item For That

In Washington, a crisis isn’t real until it has its own budget line-item. The $3-odd trillion we’ll spend this year is, apparently, a ‘best-case’ scenario. Anything unusual happen; a hurricane, earthquake, wild-fires, or, say, a possible flu epidemic, and we’re

Pro-Free Market Parties Romp to Victory in Germany

German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a resounding reelection in today’s balloting in Germany. That was mostly expected. What wasn’t expected was the absolute drubbing suffered by SPD, the labor/left party. Until this election, Merkel’s conservatives were in an uneasy, ‘grand

ACORN Recap Video: Pictures Worth Two Weeks of News

Way back in March–long before the James and Hannah “pimp and ho’ road show”– the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, held a hearing where serious fraud allegations were raised against ACORN. Rep. John Conyers pressed

Pregame Report: The NEA Conference Call

On August 25th 2009, Big Hollywood’s Patrick Courrielche broke the story of a conference call he attended with other “rising artist and art community luminaries“: On Thursday August 6th, I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to

Pregame Report: The NEA Conference Call

On August 25th 2009, Big Hollywood’s Patrick Courrielche broke the story of a conference call he attended with other “rising artist and art community luminaries“: On Thursday August 6th, I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to

House GOP to Obama: Cut the ACORN Roots Now

Last night, 83 members of the United States Senate went on record to prohibit ACORN from collecting any federal funds. Tonight, over 130 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Obama, asking him to disclose and

ACORN's Lifeblood

The investigative journalism of James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles has opened yet another chapter in the corruption-tinged history of ACORN. For most Americans, ACORN is a political organization, running voter registration drives and get-out-the-vote efforts at election-time. With a rather

Anniversary Post: 'Big Government' Rises Again

n7h6ycxmg5 [Ed Note: This is the first post to run at BigGovernment. It was published two-years ago today. It still seems relevant.] In 1995, President Bill Clinton stood before the nation and proclaimed, “The era of big government is over.”

2014: 'Gender Gap' Is Still a Myth

2014: 'Gender Gap' Is Still a Myth

As exit polling again made clear in the 2014 midterm elections, there is no real “gender gap” in Americans’ voting. Many candidates experienced shock when votes were counted, as they had centered their campaigns around the belief that there is.