DrDenny

The Buffalo News\' publisher does not point out that some of the News\' difficulties — and those of the industry in general — lie in management decisions. Consider the News\' website. It’s free. The newspaper industry is almost wholly to blame for the cultural belief that on the Internet all information is free. By failing to recognize in the mid- to late 1990s the Web as a formidable revenue generator, and thus a competitor, newspapers began websites and gave away their expensively generated content — for free.

The \"skeptic\" denialist? Well, he’s like all denialists. He pretends to be a skeptic, but no real skeptic would ever dodge the “what would prove the point in your mind?” question. That question defines the very character of skepticism. The instant you dodge that question, you’re put of the closet in a nukular-powered neon jump suit.

The law forbids super PACs — political action committees permitted to raise unlimited funds with little disclosure of donors — from coordinating their activities with those of candidates’ formal campaign committees.

But, it seems, nothing prevents super PACs from coordinating their fundraising activities with each other. And this comes with the blessing of the Democratic fundraiser-in-chief.

As if we needed still more evidence that financial authority over national political campaigns is increasingly wielded by fewer and fewer really rich people, consider this exhibit:

Super PACs raised about $181 million in the last two years — with roughly half of it coming from fewer than 200 super-rich people.