The awesome Senator Jamie Eldridge and Rep. Cory Atkins have introduced a resolution in the lege, deploring Citizens United and the corruption of politics by the tsunami of corporate cash. There are fourteen co-sponsors between the Senate … [Read more...]
Archives for January 15, 2012
Colbert drives Huntsman out of race
NYT: "Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race ..." Treachery, it seems, is not a winning platform on which to launch a campaign. The Times continues: Voters … [Read more...]
Money, speech, corporations, and Stephen Colbert
If you're not paying attention to what Stephen Colbert is up to these days, you should fix that. You may recall that he formed a SuperPAC called "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow" a little while back. The PAC was also known as … [Read more...]
Apple’s image smeared with reality
This is the image: This is the reality: an extraordinary piece -- the kind of penetrating critique of a large corporation generally not permitted, or at least not provided, by our Big Six corporate media -- by Mike Daisy last week on … [Read more...]