Epstein Secrets

This week's music offering is the American indie band Dispatch. Aside from being possibly the most suc

rge of politically active groups claiming tax-exempt status in recent elections — conservative and liberal. Among the highest profile are Republican Karl Rove's group Crossroads GPS and the liberal Moveon.org. These groups claim tax-exempt status under section 501 (c) (4) of the federal tax code, which is f

must have been when Martin played banjo with his band at the White House. Martin nodded. "I always say

, the political operatives who opposed him did what they are paid to do—they drew a cartoon of him. "Even if you never met him, you know this guy," Karl Rove said, in 2008. "He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a Martini and a cigarette, that stands against the wall and makes

vited to enjoy the music of the mega British rock band Coldplay which formed in 1996 by lead vocalist a

conservatives were the first to embrace them, but also because the super- rich are mostly Republicans. In the early part of the last election cycle, Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS disclosed that nearly 90 percent of its funds came from less than a couple dozen donors, with two donors giving $in million each. A

very powerful lesson after this election. When we band together to get our issues on the agenda, we forc

expect the Republican Party to make a similar lurch to the center. But many Republican leaders still inhabit a bubble. It was stunning how many, from Karl Rove to Newt Gingrich, seemed to expect a Mitt Romney victory. And some of the right-wing postmortems are suggest- ing that Romney lost because he was too