Posted on 22 March 2011. Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Impeachment, Libya, Quaddafi
Ask yourself this basic question: what would you say about the bombing of Libya if it had been ordered by George W. Bush or some other Republican? If your answer is that you would have the same position, ok–but there is a legitimate question to be asked here, as some members of Congress are […]
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: CEOs, Constitution, False Choices, Financial Crisis, Food Safety, Greed, Health and Safety, Justice, Michael Bloomberg, Middle Class, Pensions, Progress, Robbery, Savings and Loan Crisis, Social Security, Soviet Union, The Marketplace, Unions, Wal-Mart
Yes, to get back to some sane, healthy economic strategy we have to confront the Wall Street/Robert Rubins of the world, the corruption of the electoral system and a whole set of adversaries. But, I would put at the top of the list the false framing of the choices before us as a nation, and […]
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Posted on 14 January 2011. Tags: Antonin Scalia, Campaign Finance, Citizens United, Constitution, Corporate Power, Corporate Rights, Corruption, Justice, Linda Greenhouse, Robbery, Supreme Court of the United States
It is has been pointed out by others that when the Republicans chose to organize the reading of the Constitution on the House floor, they conveniently left out parts they didn’t like. But, they have intellectual–and I use "intellectual" loosely–support for this from Justice Scalia and his wing of convenient Constitutionalists who choose to […]
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