This post at MyDD by Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI, of McCain-Feingold fame) is worth reading.  He says all the right things about letting uncompensated bloggers endorse whoever they want without worrying about campaign finance law, … [Read more...]

The full article, as published on Cato's website, is as follows:Bloggers BewareJohn Samples is director of the Center forRepresentative Governmentat the Cato Institute and co-editor ofTheRepublican Revolution 10 Years Later: Smaller … [Read more...]

As we've already noted, there is a serious threat looming to free political speech on the internet, as the Federal Election Commission considers whether and how to apply the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law to the internet.  … [Read more...]

There have been competing op-eds in the last few days on the ongoing investigation into the outing of ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame by douchebag of liberty Bob Novak.  In today's WaPo, former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason argues … [Read more...]

There's a special section of Josh Marshall's "Talking Points Memo" devoted entirely to the rotten bankruptcy "reform" bill currently pending in Congress (see our earlier post on this topic here).  Like I said … [Read more...]

Bankruptcy law is not usually a very sexy topic, but it's hot in Washington right now.  The bankruptcy "reform" bill that the big banks and credit card companies have been pushing for years is approaching final passage.  … [Read more...]

Via Taegan Goddard, check out this interview with a member of the Federal Election Commission.  Current FEC regulations pretty much exempt anything that happens on the internet from campaign finance law (excluding, obviously, online … [Read more...]

We were distressed to see last week that the NY Times, in its ongoing and misguided quest to stymie the investigation into Novak-Plame-gate, had signed on to one of the right wing's favorite canards: that the disclosure of Valerie Plame's … [Read more...]

Today the Supreme Court declared that the Eighth Amendment (which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment) bars the execution of persons who were under 18 at the time they committed their crime.I don't think executing juveniles is a very … [Read more...]

By now, most of us here in the Bay State have heard about the "incident" at Milton Academy (for our out-of-state readers, Milton Academy is a prestigious private boarding school in a suburb south of Boston) in which a 15 year old … [Read more...]