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  • Who is corrupting whom with political spending

    Carl Graham

    This week opened with news that Montana's Attorney General filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to revisit the 2010 Citizens United decision and give Montana's restrictive campaign finance laws a pass. With all due respect, I think our AG is either stuck in a time warp or doesn't understand the basics of a marketplace and especially a marketplace of influence or ideas. Carl Graham Montana's campaign finance laws date back to when copper barons outright owned much of our state's legislature and most of its media...

  • Who's corrupting whom with political spending?

    Carl Graham

    This week opened with news that Montana's Attorney General filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to revisit the 2010 Citizens United decision and give Montana's restrictive campaign finance laws a pass. With all due respect, I think our AG is either stuck in a time warp or doesn't understand the basics of a marketplace and especially a marketplace of influence or ideas. Montana's campaign finance laws date back to when copper barons outright owned much of our state's legislature and most of its media outlets....

  • Fracking is safe for Montanans, good for Montana

    Carl Graham

    So what's all the fuss about fracking? Its most vocal opponents charge that fracking will burn your water, pollute your air and cause the very ground to shift beneath you. The oil and gas industry obviously disagrees. So who's right? Well, not being a scientist I have to base my opinions on information I get from trusted sources, as do most of fracking's detractors. And based on that information my conclusion is that, just like the Keystone XL pipeline opposition isn't about pipelines, coal dust alarmism isn't about coal...

  • Occupy your noggin

    Carl Graham

    Is it just me or do people in the "Occupy" movement seem mostly interested in occupying their time? They'd be better off trying to occupy that vast empty space between their ears; but why bother when someone will give you a slogan and armband for free. The whole thing is starting to look like an amateurish knockoff of European austerity protests. Now those people know how to riot. Carl Graham In the beginning it included Ron Paul conservatives with "End the Fed" signs and a lot of ordinary people with legitimate gripes about...