January 2010
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“With a single, disastrous 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court has thrust politics...”
– NYTimes.com
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“I want to remind you that, fifty years ago, racial segregation here in the South...”
– Howard Zinn
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“It turns one’s stomach to watch libertarians and “free market economists” defend...”
– Paul Craig Roberts
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“A spending freeze? That’s the brilliant response of the Obama team to their...”
– Paul Krugman
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“At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“If you’re looking for a concise way of capturing today’s Supreme Court decision...”
– The Supreme Court’s Citizen United Decision Is Terrifying by Jason Linkins for the Huffington Post
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“Today’s decision is backwards in many senses. It elevates the majority’s agenda...”
– Justice Stevens
robot-heart-politics:
Another line: “While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.”
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“[C]orporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no...”
– Justice Stevens, dissenting in Citizens United v. FEC
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“In a ruling that has overwhelming implications for how elections are funded, the...”
– Thom Hartmann
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“Once again, the judicial right shows itself to be unrepentant activists,...”
– Corporate Money is Just Like a Citizen’s Speech
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“Once again, the judicial right shows itself to be unrepentant activists,...”
– Corporate Money is Just Like a Citizen’s Speech
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“Luckily for corporations, the activist justices appointed by an earlier version...”
– Douglas Rushkoff
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“Right now, corporations can give loads of loot through PACs. While this money...”
– Greg Palast » Manchurian Candidates:Supreme Court allows China and othersunlimited spending in US elections
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“Conservative Supreme Court justices believe in following precedent and narrowly...”
– Jon Talton
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Do you realize that a corporation can now spend...
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It was nice knowing you, America
“By a 5-4 vote, the court on Thursday overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said corporations can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to pay for their own campaign ads. The decision, which almost certainly will also allow labor unions to participate more freely in campaigns, threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states.
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“Students in classes with mixed backgrounds do better than students in classrooms...”
– If he visited his namesake schools, MLK would see how far we are from an integrated America | Get Schooled
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“Even though no physical evidence links him to a woman’s murder — and even though...”
– No Physical Evidence, But Man to be Executed Anyway
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“Pharma and the FDA may still be agnostic about SSRIs causing violence but 700...”
– Before You Take That Antidepressant, Visit SSRIstories
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“11:18 – Here goes McLeroy, suggesting that Joseph McCarthy has been vindicated....”
– Live-Blogging the Social Studies Debate III « Texas Freedom Network
“McLeroy’s amendment is adopted.” Headdesk.
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“2:25 – A testifier suggests that students are taught that socialism is better...”
– Live-Blogging the Social Studies Hearing II « Texas Freedom Network
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“It’s truly astounding to watch us — for a full decade — send fighter jets and...”
– Glenn Greenwald
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Torture Is Continuing Under the Obama... →
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US-Led Forces Accused of Executing Schoolchildren →
On Monday, hundreds of people, mostly students, protested in Kabul and in the province of Nangarhar against the US killing of civilians. Nearly 30 civilians have died over the past two weeks alone in US-led airstrikes and ground operations. But the incident that has sparked the most outrage took place in eastern Kunar on December 27th when ten Afghans, eight of them schoolchildren, were killed....
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“It’s truly astounding to watch us — for a full decade — send fighter jets and...”
– Glenn Greenwald
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H&M and Wal-Mart actively destroy unworn and... →
Colleen Farrell of New York Cares told the Times that she’d be happy to take unworn clothing off these retailers’ hands—but for H&M and Wal-Mart, that would be putting perfectly good merchandise into the hands of people who couldn’t and perhaps shouldn’t afford it in the first place.
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Don’t forget the naughts, because this decade, no matter what anyone on the right might say, was conservatism on trial. You want less taxes? You got less taxes. You want less regulation? You got less regulation. Open markets? Wide open. An illusuion of security in place of rights? Hey, presto. Think we should privatize war by handing unlimited power given to military contractors so they can kick...