Obama’s Political Action Group Loses Lawsuit Against Website Address Owner

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Last year, President Obama’s re-election campaign reworked its operations renaming it Organizing for Action in an effort to leverage the President’s monumental email address list to urge supporters to back the President’s policies. But OFA made a tiny mistake: it didn’t register all the various website addresses for its new effort. Worse, when others jumped… Read more »

Amtrak loses a ton of money each year. It doesn’t have to.

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Amtrak is coming under heavy scrutiny these days. The passenger rail service needed $ 1.4 billion in subsidies from Congress in 2012, and many Republicans are skeptical that the government should be losing so much money on train travel. But, as it turns out, there’s a fairly straightforward way to put Amtrak on a financially… Read more »

BuzzFeed Loses Top Guy, Replaces with Left-Wing Talking Points Memo Reporter

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It was announced today that Evan McMorris-Santoro, the national politics reporter for Talking Points Memo, will replace Zeke Miller as BuzzFeed’s White House reporter. News of Miller’s departure didn’t come as a surprise. It’s been rumored for some time. The early scuttle was that he was headed for Politico. Via Twitter, Miller today said he… Read more »