Egregious Ads and Polls from Mark Zuckerberg’s Front Group

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 7th at 05:02 PM  | 

Imagine the biggest conservative donors in America banding together to form a group, “Progressives for Retirement Security,” for the purpose of promoting private retirement accounts.  Imagine that group running ads starring Chuck Schumer promoting private Social Security accounts as examples of bold progressive reform. Don’t worry, hell will freeze over from global warming before that happens. If you’ve been watching Fox News or listening to | Read More »

To be Clear About Mark Zuckerberg’s Americans for a Conservative Direction

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 24th at 11:35 AM  | 

I just want to be clear about about the new front group for the Gang of Eight’s immigration proposal on the right, Americans for a Conservative Direction. The group, funded by Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, is perfectly entitled to set up this group. A good bit of the center-right coalition supports the issue. That’s not my problem My problem is that this is just another | Read More »

That’s Mark Zuckerberg’s Money They’re Wasting at Americans for a Conservative Direction

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 24th at 10:34 AM  | 

So this group with the really crappy commercials I just told you about is being funded by Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. Alexander Burns at the Politico reports that this group is his. How on earth does a billionaire liberal spend a pile of money to support immigration reform — and that’s what the group is for, conservatism be damned — and get a website and | Read More »

Tech at Night: Darrell Issa versus the FCC, Net Neutrality

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  April 21st at 12:00 AM  | 

Good evening. Darrell Issa is stepping up the pressure on the FCC. He wants to tie spectrum reallocation incentives to Net Neutrality repeal. Many of us want to be able to reallocate spectrum from television stations to multipurpose wireless data, since we as a society are demanding more and faster data these days. If Darrell Issa makes the FCC’s ability to facilitate that, contingent on | Read More »