citizens united

George Soros is behind every evil in the world. That's the idea you get when reading some conservative posters. But why is he being portrayed as such a boogeyman? As a normal Swede, I don't hear much about George Soros from domestic sources. Last time anyone discussed him in the mainstream...

I live in a solid blue state, so very little national campaign advertising made its way onto our local broadcasts. And I watch very little TV. And what little TV I do watch is generally through a DVR that lets me speed through the ads. So although I am a political junkie, I managed to pretty...

Just heard on the Norman Goldman show that the Supreme Court ruled against AT&T on a case involving corporate personhood. Seems that a lower court had ruled that certain documents in government posession regarding a case involving a settlement against AT&T were subject to FOIA requewsts and...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-10-08/republican-allies-spending-threat-to-democracy-plouffe-says.html This is why I don't think the supreme court made the correct decision. The usa has been put up for sale.

So yesterday's Colbert Report dedicated two segments to this case, and I'd be lying if I said that their angle did not scare the crap out of me. The show's argument was that if the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Citizen's United (which seemed likely), it would rule that laws limiting campaign...

Recently the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the latest in a series of challenges to the application of the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (or, as I've taken to calling it, Johnny McCain's Magical Muzzle). Not...

Story IMO, this just makes the repubs look desperate. People will think "What are they so scared of?" and will want to see the film. What great publicity for Moore.