From Daily Kos: Wisconsin GOP Attempts to Use Open Records Law to Read Professor’s Email

As reported on the Daily Kos, the Wisconsin Republican Party has sent a request to Professor Bill Cronon, who wrote a critical blog post and Times op-ed piece of the GOP’s (specifically its backers) campaign to bust public unions, for his personal emails sent and received through his school email account. As a public worker, it …

IRS + Abortion Auditing = GOP-Backed Science Fiction in the Here-and-Now

Today, Wonkette linked to an article on MotherJones by Nickk Baumann about a new GOP-backed bill that would require the Internal Revenue Service to audit how folks use pre-tax money on abortions. Baumann interviewed tax analyst Christopher Begin, who said, “Were this to become law, people could end up in an audit, the subject of which …