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Yesterday in the L.A. Times, columnist George Skelton post-mortemed Prop. 89, the public financing initiative that California voters overwhelmingly rejected last Tuesday.  His conclusion: ...

The Onion skewers the campaign finance "reform" movement in its inimitable style.

It is easy to pass quickly on the humor, and quickly past the ...

Today the FEC will consider an alternative draft of AO 2006-30 (ActBlue).  CCP considers this most recent draft to be a substantial improvement over the ...

CCP Chairman Brad Smith and John R. Lott, Jr. temper fears of electronic voting in National Review Online.  Say Smith ...

Would government financing of political campaigns really remove "deep-pocket special interests" from politics.  No.  Click the headline for more.

In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Robert J. Samuelson considers whether public opinion is to blame for the problems in ...

Thanks to advocates of campaign finance “reform”, the enterprise of political speech in America has become complicated business.  But while the regulatory regime advanced ...

Worthless patent medicines used to be sold as all-purpose remedies.  Got a problem?  Not feeling well?  Try Dr. Smith's Miracle Elixer. "It's good for ...

We forget that "Trick or Treat?" is not a salutation but a question, an implied threat made cute by the passage of time.

It ...

The wonderful thing about the New York Times editorial board is the way they can be so indignant, while having their facts (we won't ...