Holy smokes was I not surprised by the decision this week by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC. I was always suspicious of the argument that “money is not speech, it’s property,” though I repeated it several times. I agree with Bryan, in that I can’t really imagine that a pesky little thing [...]
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Every morning, I hear on NPR the latest, in their tortured pro-Israel way, about what’s going on in the Middle East. Today the shock was that a rocket managed to land in Gedera, a mere 20 miles from Tel Aviv. It hit a building. Oh, but that rocket did not hit just a building. It [...]
Staying away from adding to the voices complaining about the $7e11 bailout of Wall Street is not something I’m very equipped to do. So I would like to compare two paragraphs here: The first is from Glenn Greenwald’s astonishingly muted post from Saturday: And all of this was both foreseeable as well as foreseen — [...]
