And how are the children?

The GOP's new tactic for sidestepping campaign financing rules is pretty slick: sell your fundraiser--give up to $500,000 to the Republicans and schmooze with Tom DeLay at the Republican National Convention--as a children's charity. Both DeLay and Bill Frist are morphing fundraisers for kids and AIDs with GOP stump sessions. Said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, "They are using the idea of helping children as a blatant cover for financing activities in connection with a convention with huge unlimited, undisclosed, unregulated contributions."

ALSO: Nathan Newman blogs that the US joins some of the worst nations of the world in violating international child labor standards.