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Mark Sanford appears to be cruising to a surprisingly comfortable victory Tuesday night, 54% to Elizabeth Colbert Busch’s 46% with 71% of precincts reporting. If his projected victory holds up, it will mark a dramatic political comeback. The disgraced former…
As I reported yesterday, congressional candidate Elizabeth Colbert Busch has a very interesting backstory involving wind energy and a certain cable comedy host. Today, special election day in South Carolina’s first district, adds a new wrinkle to that story. Meet…
From the website of the Working Families Party, the other party Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch is representing in today’s special congressional election: Q. What does “fusion voting” mean? A. Fusion voting occurs when a minor-party “cross-endorses” a major party candidate, allowing…
In most any other circumstance, Elizabeth Colbert Busch would get nowhere near the title of Congresswoman. The district she’s running in, South Carolina’s 1st, encompasses the genteel, cosmopolitan Lowcountry and slants strongly Republican. Last year, residents there elected Tea Partier Tim Scott…
The Dodd-Frank Act is dedicated to managing systemic risk, but that risk had no substantive role in the financial crisis. The law also compounds a stifling regulatory regime which kills competition by preventing new banks from entering the market. These…
Another first Friday, another month of labor market data. The March report was disconcerting, but April brings positive news. Unemployment fell one point to 7.5%, but the labor force participation rate held steady at 63.3%. This means more people found…
Forbes continues its coverage of crypto-anarchist Cody Wilson, a 25-year-old Texas law student who wants to radically democratize gunmaking with 3D-printers. His nonprofit Defense Distributed has produced the first entirely 3D-printed gun, a pistol called the Liberator. Crypto-anarchism began as an online…
Last night Politico reported that congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), have been holding discussions to exempt congressional staffers — and members — from the onerous costs of the Patient Protection…
Senators of myriad ideologies spoke as one Tuesday afternoon, calling for increased transparency in the White House’s drone strike program. Unanimity was the rule at a hearing on “the constitutional and counterterrorism implications of targeted killing,” the first of its…
Nancy Lanza was killed by her son on December 14, 2012. She was gunned down in her home, not the Sandy Hook Elementary School building where 20 children and six other women were murdered. Most media accounts mention 26 innocent…
