“We’re not campaigning anymore John. The election’s over.”
- President Obama
President Barack Obama’s signature on the health insurance reform bill at the White House, March 23, 2010.
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Personally, I am not happy with this bill. Are we moving towards a socialist country?
Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 4:44pm
Thursday, February 25th 2010 4:20pm
The Supreme Court's gift to big business
The Supreme Court is going to make a ruling over whether or not corporations can run ads during political elections. I am strongly against this. At its core, if the Court rules in favor of corporations, it will be conferring the rights of an individual upon a corporation. It sickens me that self-proclaimed Originalists like Scalia or Thomas would dare infer from the Constitution that a corporation is entitled to a right like Freedom of Speech (thus declaring a 1926 law barring corporations from running campaign ads unconstitutional).
The issue is this: corporations already have outsized influence on our legislative process through their lobbies. They have destroyed our healthcare system (through McCarron-Ferguson), our financial system (through Gramm-Leach-Bliley), and blocked any investment in energy for three decades. Why we, as citizens, do not revolt against this, I do not understand. But if corporations can run ads during elections, then whatever tiny shred of integrity left in the legislative process will be long gone. All candidates will be stuck pandering to their corporate puppet masters. We will be McDonald’s Nation.
(via Fortune)
Friday, January 22nd 2010 10:19am
“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, January 18th 2010 11:56am
Todd S. Purdum on Sarah Palin
Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her story. But what Alaska’s charismatic governor wants the public to know about herself doesn’t always jibe with reality. As John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick, the author tracks the signs—political and personal—that Palin was big trouble, and checks the forecast for her future.
(via Vanity Fair)
Sunday, July 5th 2009 8:35am
Fast Food: Would You Like 1,000 Calories with That?
If public-health advocates, and now the Senate, get their way, when you look at a menu from a chain restaurant, those calorie counts will be staring you down.
(via, my pal, Maria Gonima)
Monday, June 22nd 2009 6:03pm
Today Vice President Gore announced that his next book, Our Choice, will be published by Rodale in the US and by other publishers internationally on November 3, 2009. Picking up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, Our Choice utilizes Mr. Gore’s forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur and activist to comprehensively describe the real solutions to global warming. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore continues to make sense of the pressing issues we face and Our Choice will unquestionably inspire and rally those ready to fight for solutions that were deemed impossible only a short time ago.
Said Vice President Gore, “An Inconvenient Truth reached millions of people with the message that the climate crisis is threatening the future of human civilization and that it must and can be solved. Now that the need for urgent action is even clearer with the alarming new findings of the last three years, it is time for a comprehensive global plan that actually solves the climate crisis. Our Choice will answer that call.”
Go, Al!
Tuesday, March 24th 2009 12:43pm
