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FEBRUARY 3, 2010, 6:23 pm
By Robert Borosage -- OurFuture.org
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mi) and chair of the House Judiciary Committee today introduced an amendment to the Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Citizen's United that gave corporations the right to spend unlimited funds in election campaigns as a matter of free speech.Read more »
FEBRUARY 3, 2010, 4:50 pm
To read the new (February 2010) truth alert, click here:
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/truth-alert/setting-record-straight-usual
To read the November 2009 Truth Alert (with additional comments), click here:
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/truth-alert/setting-matter-straight
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FEBRUARY 3, 2010, 4:45 pm
I discovered in a recent book of rather serious intent, and in which I was otherwise fairly treated, that the author chose to print some of the silliest fabricated tales about me even after acknowledging that they were “perhaps more apocryphal than true.” I was surprised that this author would not even bother to check his facts. I don’t care if someone doesn’t like my work or tells a story that is unflattering…as long as it’s the truth.Read more »
JANUARY 31, 2010, 2:41 pm
By Robert Borosage -- OurFuture.org
To be thrown out of work is a crushing blow. Homes are lost. Families split. Children are terrified. Hopes are dashed. Today, nearly one in five American workers is without a job or scraping by on whatever part-time, short-term work there is.
We need a real jobs bill now, and a strategy that commits our government to revitalizing America's economic foundation, built around a commitment to full employment.
Tell the Senate: We need action on jobs NOW!Read more »
JANUARY 31, 2010, 2:40 pm
By FRANK RICH -- The New York Times.
DRAWING (DRAWING BY BARRY BLITT)
Even given the low bar set by America's bogus conversations about race, the short-lived Harry Reid fracas was a most peculiar nonevent. For all the hyperventilation in cable news land, this supposed racial brawl didn't seem to generate any controversy whatsoever in what is known as the real world.Read more »
JANUARY 31, 2010, 2:37 pm
By David Axelrod -- The Washington Post.
For its Topic A feature last Sunday, The Post invited a panel of political operatives to offer their advice to the Democratic Party on strategy for 2010 [Sunday Opinion, Jan. 10]. Improbably, one of the operatives asked was Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's longtime chief strategist.
Rove has some impressive campaign victories to his credit. But given the shape in which the last administration left this country, I'm not sure I would solicit his advice. And given the backhanded advice he offered, I'm not sure he was all that eager to help.Read more »
JANUARY 28, 2010, 12:53 pm
A new statement, "We The Corporations? I Don't Think So" has been posted - read it here.
JANUARY 28, 2010, 12:05 pm
I felt like I was in suspended animation as I read the Supreme Court decision which, essentially enables a corporate coup d’état of America’s Democracy.
Our country’s Founding Fathers never intended for monarchs or the business establishment to rule our nation. No, the Founders of our country began the Constitution with the words, "We the People of the United States…"
That sentiment was again expressed when President Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address said it simply but powerfully, that our government was of the people, by the people and for the people.Read more »
JANUARY 26, 2010, 3:29 pm
Editorial -- The New York Times.
In calling for new limits on the size and activities of big banks, President Obama has given the effort to enact serious financial regulatory reform something it lacked: a rational starting point.Read more »
JANUARY 26, 2010, 3:28 pm
Click here to read the article from The Progress Report:
JANUARY 26, 2010, 3:27 pm
By E.J. Dionne Jr. -- The Washington Post.
"Populism" is the most overused and misused word in the lexicon of commentary. But thanks to a reckless decision by Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court and the greed of the nation's financial barons, we have reached a true populist moment in American politics.
The Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision last week giving American corporations the right to unlimited political spending was an astonishing display of judicial arrogance, overreach and unjustified activism.Read more »
