Story links, diagrams show while A.G. made baseless claims, he was doing the very things he accused others of ARTICLE (thanks to the Washington Free Beacon): “Shadowy liberal groups helped propel to victory a gubernatorial candidate who has led the fight against undisclosed “dark money” and championed transparency in political spending…publicly available inf […]

Judge orders COPP to turn over stolen ATP materials, slams State for improper conduct   >> Court order rebukes COPP for improperly holding stolen evidence from a criminal investigation, using it to smear candidates before an election >> Ferguson warns Bullock: ‘This is how Nixon got impeached.’ LIVINGSTON, MONT. — A Montana judge ordered theRead […]

“The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) internal watchdog is looking into whether the agency uses separate internal email accounts to conduct government affairs,” The Hill reports. “EPA’s inspector general said the audit follows on a congressional request. Some lawmakers have pressed EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for answers on her alleged use of a sep […]

President Barack Obama is so committed to the Gang Green agenda he held his first press conference in eight months to announce he would seek new job-killing limits on the amount of harmless carbon dioxide power plants produce. “(E)nvironmentalists are hopeful that Obama will fashion a muscular agenda through existing administrative powers, such as expandingR […]

Media Trackers Montana has discovered that Bob Funk, a former staffer for Democratic U.S. Senator Jon Tester, and current employee of the Washington, D.C.-based Hilltop Public Solutions, is likely behind the anonymous left-wing blog “Montana Street Fighter.” Montana Street Fighter popped up during the 2012 election and and its posts generally promote Democra […]

Several out-of-state liberal groups are using speculation about former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s possible U.S. Senate ambitions to raise funds, grow their political contact lists, and even hire staff in Montana. “Draft Brian Schweitzer! A bold progressive who supports single-payer health care!” state the ads circulating on Facebook and other internet s […]

Controversial candidate for Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl stated that he does not foresee needing to recuse himself from cases during his formal interview with Gov. Steve Bullock on Monday, despite decades of involvement with Democratic party candidates and causes. “Because of my campaign related activities that come from issue work, and […]

  By Dustin Hurst | Watchdog.org   As a legislative coalition key to expanding Montana’s Medicaid program crumbles to the Capitol floor, a key player is pushing lawmakers to pursue aggressive reform of the health program. Carl Graham, president of the Montana Policy Institute, wants lawmakers to remake the program rather than swelling its ranks as allowed un […]

By Dustin Hurst | Watchdog.org HELENA — Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester just can’t get enough — money for the ever-growing government, that is. Most of the Montana media focused on Tester’s call for bipartisanship in his address to state lawmakers gathered in a joint session Monday, but another element received little play: the senator’s push for [...]The po […]

By Dustin Hurst | Watchdog.org HELENA – U.S. Sen. Max Baucus told Montana state lawmakers last week that he clings true to a particular aphorism: When you hold certain advantages, you must utilize them. It’s an idiom certainly not lost on ex-Baucus staffers whose lobbying clients profited greatly from a tax package the Montana senator created. Montana’s seni […]

Low ridership numbers on a federally subsidized air route means that one rural Montana town could soon lose commercial air service.The post MT: Feds may soon yank subsidized air service to Lewistown appeared first on Watchdog.org. […]

Newly sworn-in Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock says he wants to expand Montana’s Medicaid program, but his ambition might leave the state with a time bomb ticking deep inside the biennial budget.The post MT: Bullock seeks Medicaid expansion, but ‘Woodwork Effect’ could hurt state budget appeared first on Watchdog.org. […]

I think the most significant thing to come out of the trio (so far) of Obama administration scandals last week was how they pointed out the cognitive and practical failures of “progressive” beliefs about big government. They’re scrambling to define the abuses and failures of government agencies and individuals as aberrations of a government that oversees, we […]

The news outlets tell us the IRS has been targeting conservative non-profits for unfavorable treatment. Based on my own experience, my guess is that these things happen far more often than reported—both on the state and federal levels. In the 1990s, I was the subject of some suspicious audits by the Montana Department of Revenue (DOR). There were several rea […]

By: Carl Graham Bozeman: Barry Goldwater, in a line that may have cost him the presidency, famously quipped that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. Turns out he might have been on to something there, and Montana’s latest legislative session is a great example. Goldwater’s quote came in 1964 when Repu […]