6 days ago by mjohnson

BY GARY ANDRES Many immediately proclaimed last week’s Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision as a huge win for business “special interests.” But those quick draw reactions are based more on ideology and political rhetoric than hard facts. While this latest change in the campaign finance land ...

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11 days ago by Jim Horn

Posted at HuffPo: And check out this commentary on NPR's Marketwatch: JUSTIN FOX: Economist Milton Friedman once wrote that an individual has lots of responsibilities: responsibilities to family, to conscience, to charity, to church, to country. A business, he said, was different. It's one and only ...

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13 days ago by El Quebin

Corporate Quiz Many of our readers will be familiar with the recent US Supreme Court Decision allowing corporations to pour unlimited monies into political campaigns… The Insistent Reader: Now why would they say such a thing? TDIA: Because legally corporations are persons and the argument goes that ...

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13 days ago by theperpetualbachelor

It’s painful to see how easily things could be corrected. It’s even more painful to know that it will most likely never happen. At least not smoothly. The powers at be enjoy, well, their power. Makes me believe there is a greater chance of bloody revolution comrades than any intelligent change. But ...

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13 days ago by ljp

Here we are one year into the Barack Obama administration and the non-partisan line among anyone I talk to is: politicians get an assist for the mess in which Americans find their country…and the longer it goes on, the more the original sin will shift to them. Sure, the banks and real estate failed, ...

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14 days ago by Garry Cooper

Following today’s Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations to donate unlimited funds to election campaigns, Congress, in a rare show of bipartisanship, vowed to enact legislation modifying the ruling. “We intend to make laws in the coming months that will put some kind of limits on corporate donat ...

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14 days ago by Newsdesk

When the Supreme Court hands down a controversial decision, it's not surprising to hear populist demagogues like Glenn Beck or Ralph Nader denounce it by accusing the court of handing "a huge victory to the special interests" with a ruling that "strikes at our democracy itself." They have no experti ...

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16 days ago by billpeach

In 1976, in Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court ruled that spending money to influence elections is a form of constitutionally protected free speech. Efforts at campaign reform have restricted contributions from corporations and unions. Also, in the concept of full disclosure, certain contributions ...

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17 days ago by A Responsible American

It has been a rather incredible week. In a real “two fer”, the election of Republican Scott Brown to represent the state of Massachusetts as a United States Senator has sent both the ghost of Ded Ted and the unholy trinity’s health care “reform” back down to the hell hole from which they rose. And t ...

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17 days ago by Debi Brazzale

In a bid they say would loosen the grip of special interests on the State Capitol, some Democratic lawmakers are proposing to let qualifying legislative candidates tap public funds to help pay for their races. The proposal by Rep. Lois Court, D-Denver, would be paid for voluntarily by those who choo ...

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