Keep the Clean Water Act Strong
Nov 29, 2011 Opinion
Corporate resistance and ambiguous court decisions could hamper federal efforts to protect wetlands, marshes and shorelines from pollution.
We the People vs. We the Corporation: Sentiment Builds for Banning Corporate Personhood
Nov 29, 2011 Opinion
How far should a constitutional amendment go to roll back corporate rights? And is it possible?
Officials probe Alabama immigration law’s impact on rights
Nov 29, 2011 Opinion
BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) – Two Justice Department officials said they returned to Alabama on Monday as boots on the ground to sift through some of the more than 1,000 e-mails and calls received on a hotline
Senate faces key vote on indefinite detention
Nov 29, 2011 Opinion
the $662 billion measure has hit a snag over provisions requiring that al-Qaeda fighters captured on US soil be held by military, not civilian authorities — rules that President Barack Obama opposes.
This Teenager Fought and Beat a Governor Over First Amendment Rights
Nov 29, 2011 Opinion
Here’s how a Kansas teenager embarrassed an entire governor’s office simply by sticking to her guns on Twitter.
Collateral Damage: The GOP’s Obama Hate Pushes 100 Million Towards Poverty
Nov 29, 2011 Opinion
The fact that GOP hatred of Obama has fueled policies that have devastated tens-of-millions of Americans who are living in poverty or near-poverty is often ignored by the media.
Al Qaeda Is Dead, Long Live Al Qaeda
Nov 29, 2011 Opinion
A few days ago I linked to a Washington Post story suggesting that the original Al Qaeda network was all but dead. It was late at night when I posted about it, so I didn’t bother musing on the legal implications of this, but Robert Chesney picks up the ball and suggests that it matters. Sure, he says, the guys in Yemen might call themselves Al Qaeda, but the post-9/11 Authorization for the Use of Military Force doesn’t care:
Richmond Tea Party Blames Occupy Movement For Being Audited
Nov 29, 2011 Opinion
The Richmond Tea Party has been distraught over the attention given to the Occupy movement while disregarding the prevalent use of police force, they laid claim to preferential treatment being given to OWSers. I digress, they are correct in that Tea Partiers have not had to suffer any form of police brutality so the preferential treatment they refer to must be another word for, police force.
Poll Finds Fox News Is Worse Than No News at All
Nov 29, 2011 Opinion
A new survey of Americans finds that those who watch Fox News are sometimes more ignorant than those who watch nothing at all.
The 1 Percent Indifferent to Their Indebtedness
Nov 29, 2011 Opinion
For the majority of millionaires — the 1 percent — incurring debt does not evoke anxiety. They’re numb to the feeling of responsibility that indebtedness induces in the 99 percent. They believe they owe nothing to their country or society despite all they’ve gained.