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No One Has To Wonder Who's More Corrupt-- Beatty Or Gottheimer; They're In Business Together
It Would Be So Much Easier If All Corrupt Member Of Congress Were Republicans And All Dems Honest, But, Alas... Some people say all...

Howie Klein
Feb 6, 20223 min read
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Democracy Loses Legitimacy When Elected Officials Are As Egregiously Corrupt As Ours Are
When the ABSCAM scandal played out in the media in the late 70s/early 80s, it wasn't quite as thrilling as Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad,...

Howie Klein
Jan 28, 20226 min read
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Big Oil Is Bribing Members Of Congress To Look The Other Way On Climate Change
So far this cycle, the top half dozen direct oil and gas contributors to congressional campaigns were Koch Industries, Samson Energy,...

Howie Klein
Nov 26, 20212 min read
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Who's Worse-- Manchin Or Sinema? Does It Even Matter?
Over a decade ago, before she had been elected to the House, Kyrsten Sinema was in the Arizona state legislature and she and I were...

Howie Klein
Nov 21, 20218 min read
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If Benton Passed The Russian Cash To Trump, How Come He Got Indicted & Trump Didn't?
Kentucky Republican Party sleaze ball operative didn't just crawl our of the sewer to funnel Russian money to Trump. He's been doing this...

Howie Klein
Sep 21, 20214 min read
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Lucas Kunce Wants To Criminalize War Profiteer Lobbyists; Don't Stop There
I don't mean to denigrate Biden in particular with that clip. It could have been Hillary-- who's a much worse lobbyist patsy-- or Mitch...

Howie Klein
Sep 16, 20217 min read
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When We Have Dems Fighting Climate Crisis Amelioration, Who Needs Republicans?
Yesterday 7 Texas Democrats shot another a arrow into hopes that the reconciliation bill would begin to deal seriously with the climate...

Howie Klein
Sep 14, 20214 min read
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Afghanistan Didn't Learn Corruption From The U.S.-- Nor Did We Learn It From Them
The headline, Afghanistan's Corruption Was Made In America, at Foreign Affairs is misleading. That the U.S., as the occupying power,...

Howie Klein
Sep 7, 20219 min read
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Midterms: If The Democrats Don't Give People A Reason To Vote For Them, They Won't
Every Single Conservative In Congress Exists On Bribery Republicans seem out of their minds and unimaginably impossible to support. In...

Howie Klein
Sep 6, 20215 min read
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Nice News In Merrimack County, NH... And Bad News Everywhere Else (Corruption In Congress)
Although Biden handily beat Trump in New Hampshire-- 424,921 (52.7%) to 365,654 (45.4%)-- the Republicans flipped the state legislature....

Howie Klein
Jun 10, 20214 min read
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Sweeping U.S. Political Crimes Under The Rug-- And Very Bipartisan
A few years ago, I spent some time in Dakar, a relatively cosmopolitan West African city in Senegal. There was a large, thriving Lebanese...

Howie Klein
Apr 2, 20213 min read
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Surprised To Hear That People Don't Want Billionaires Buying Politicians?
Meredith did an in-depth look at attitude of North Carolina's registered voters a couple of weeks ago and published their findings...

Howie Klein
Mar 30, 20218 min read
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Post-Insurrection Republican Party Money Woes
Sheldon Adelson, simultaneously a Mafia and a one-man Israeli front operation-- who has also been a conduit for political money from...

Howie Klein
Jan 12, 20214 min read
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Be Honest! Do You Think People Who Voted For Trump Should Lose Their Right To Vote?
Yesterday, it was reported that another rat had just deserted Trump's sinking ship. Trump's anti-science, COVID-friendly science advisor...

Howie Klein
Dec 1, 20205 min read
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