Friday, November 27, 2009

 

Glenn Beck - the early days - not much different


Saturday, September 19, 2009

 

Where's coverage? Jailed GOP scam group leader far worse than ACORN


Czars? Birthers? Deathers? Now fake GOP hysteria over "scandals" as distraction turns back to an old veteran target of mudslinging ... and Joe Conason just recalled the real GOP voter-reg scandal that got almost no coverage ...

Over the past several years, a handful of ACORN employees have admitted falsifying names and signatures on registration cards, in order to boost the pay they received. When ACORN officials discovered those cases, they informed the state authorities and turned in the miscreants. (That was why the Bush Justice Department's blatant attempt to smear ACORN with rushed, election-timed indictments became a national scandal for Republicans rather than Democrats.) The proportion of fraud is infinitesimal. ...

If only the Republicans who have worked up a frenzy over ACORN's alleged crimes were so indignant about real and damaging voter fraud -- such as the amazing case of Young Political Majors, the firm that ran GOP registration efforts in California, Massachusetts, Florida, Arizona and elsewhere before the authorities in Orange County, Calif., busted its president, Mark Anthony Jacoby, and sent him to jail last year. He had built a lucrative partisan career by teaching his minions to deceive thousands of voters into registering as Republicans rather than Democrats, among other scams. Of course, the only on-air mention of the Young Political Majors scandal on Fox News was made by blogger Brad Friedman -- and the national media, mainstream and conservative, generally ignored it. They were too busy generating "controversy" over ACORN. ...

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

 

Sotomayor dares ask the question...

are Corporations people? Even Kennedy get's it wrong.

Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law

During arguments in a campaign-finance case, the court's majority conservatives seemed persuaded that corporations have broad First Amendment rights and that recent precedents upholding limits on corporate political spending should be overruled.

But Justice Sotomayor suggested the majority might have it all wrong -- and that instead the court should reconsider the 19th century rulings that first afforded corporations the same rights flesh-and-blood people have.

Judges "created corporations as persons, gave birth to corporations as persons," she said. "There could be an argument made that that was the court's error to start with...[imbuing] a creature of state law with human characteristics."


Tuesday, September 08, 2009

 

REM and MoveON: We Can't afford to Wait


Monday, September 07, 2009

 

Fired Up!


Friday, September 04, 2009

 

Senator Bernie Sanders on Afghanistan


Tuesday, September 01, 2009

 

Who knew?

Fierce California fires tear into tattered budget | Reuters
The firefighting effort could face new strains if the prison system, also trying to cut costs, releases 27,000 or more low-risk inmates -- the type the firefighting agency depends on for cheap, abundant labor.

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