If ever a time in the political life of this country needed a dose of Molly Ivins, this is it…Can’t you just imagine what she could have done with this years Republican race? Two dubious Texans and Newt running for President…What a joke! Paul Krugman is missing her too…Here is …
So we’re choosing between the overintellectualized professor and blockheads boasting about their vacuity? The occupational hazard of democracy is know-nothing voters. It shouldn’t be know-nothing candidates. via Egghead and Blockheads – NYTimes.com.
I got involved in a conversation on Facebook the other day that led to one hell of a light bulb over the head moment. Let’s make elections fair… Let’s put a limit on the amount of money you can give to all candidates for office equal to the amount of …
It’s a short little book…Takes maybe an hour to read but it could change your life. Being the chief cook and bottle washer for a bunch of independent cusses, I can’t implement all of the rules…But…I’ll be sneaking them in one at a time till the majority have become habits… …
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, …
Keith Olberman has his say on the Supreme Court ruling… Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The Transcript… 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 …
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 …
I am not a real farmer, my neighbors say, because I don’t do it for money. That’s almost funny because the economists are saying that nobody’s farming for money this year. Although the corn crop is good in most of the midwest, there’s not much profit in it. Some go …
The role of speculators in the world’s oil markets has been widely blamed for bringing consumers $4 gasoline last summer — and rightly so. A recently completed study by two Baker Institute scholars further confirms that this blame is not misplaced and recommends specific ways to do something to limit …
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 …
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