This is getting to be a familiar scenario: The Texas Board of Education, preparing to adopt new curriculum standards, makes our schoolchildren’s textbooks a matter of highly partisan wrangling.
When the board met last week to discuss what to teach Texas’s; public school students in history, geography, government and economics, their preliminary druthers were heavily weighted [...]

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Keith Olberman has his say on the Supreme Court ruling…

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Olbermann: U.S. government for sale
With no limits on campaign financing, corporations will take over the government

SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, ‘Countdown’
updated 8:29 p.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 21, 2010
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Finally tonight, as promised, a Special [...]

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A divided Supreme Court on Thursday swept aside decades of legislative restrictions on the role of corporations in political campaigns, ruling that companies can dip into their treasuries to spend as much as they want to support or oppose individual candidates. (via Supreme Court rejects limits on corporate spending on political campaigns – washingtonpost.com)
And so [...]

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THERE ARE MANY complicated aspects of the campaign-finance case the Supreme Court is poised to hear Wednesday, but the issue boils down to this: Will the justices let corporations spend unlimited amounts to elect or defeat candidates for federal office? This course of action would be unwise and unnecessary to resolve the dispute at hand.
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If you read my post a while back about Senator Cornyn’s response to the White House’s request that people forward the emails they received with disinformation…You may be interested in his reply that arrived today…
Dear Mr. Boyd:
Thank you for contacting me about President Obama’s new initiative to monitor American citizens’ speech about his health care [...]

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