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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. -- Marge Piercy, For the young who want to in The Moon Is Always Female. Take an ax to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now. -- Rumi, Quietness |
Robert Reich writes: Among Rove’s investors was Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire who owns the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. Adelson invested more than $100 million in the election, mostly on Republicans who lost – including $20 million that went to Romney’s super PAC “Restore Our Future,” $15 million to another super PAC that almost single-handedly kept [...]
Via What’s Up: WHAT: End Corporate Rule Workshop WHERE: Cleveland Friends Meeting House, 10916 Magnolia Ave., University Circle WHEN:6 p.m., Tuesday, 30 October WHO: Cleveland Move to Amend CONTACT: cleveland@movetoamend.org An End Corporate Rule workshop will be offered by two representatives of national Move to Amend, the coalition advocating for a 28th Amendment to the [...]
From my hometown newspaper this morning: [L]et’s say that you and I are trying to influence the results of an election, and we each set up a soapbox on a particular corner in Marietta on a daily basis. We appear on our respective soapboxes regularly and speak to whatever citizens of Marietta will listen. Now [...]
The sad reality of online petitions is that their primary purpose is not to garner support for a cause or issue, but rather to collect contact information for fundraising actions. So yesterday when Mother Jones sent me this email I didn’t even blink before I deleted the plea. Here’s my major objection: nowhere in the [...]
Roldo Bartimole writes: You know folks, the 2012 Republicans are out to destroy working/middle class people and, of course, America with it. Everything goes to the top! They cry, “Exceptionalism,” to describe America. Yet they push the nation toward mediocrity or worse. They don’t value freedom. They value the aristocracy of wealth. They’d love to [...]
From The Washington Post: A Supreme Court spokeswoman says 19 people were arrested Sunday afternoon after they refused to leave the grounds of the court. Ann Wilcox, an attorney and legal adviser to the protesters, says [Cornel] West was among those arrested. West attended the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the [...]
I truly believe that in a parallel universe the Ohio Democratic Party got behind Jennifer Brunner’s winning campaign for the United States Senate and she carried the party to sweeping victory across the state. Sadly, we all know what happened in this universe. Brunner represents a new Democratic Party, one not dominated by old boys [...]
There is no one I personally trust more to protect my franchise in Ohio than our Secretary of State and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Jennifer Brunner. I remain unconvinced that the solution to Citizens United v. Board of Elections is legislative, but Brunner has proposed legislation that, in the interim: is our best [...]
Calling a Constitutional Convention is a very dangerous act because, in theory, such a convention could decide to toss the whole Constitution of the United States and start over. Anger over the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Citizens United v. Board of Elections is making people think outside the box. That is [...]
There is no journalist whose voice I respect more on matters of Free Speech, the First Amendment to the Constitution and the Supreme Court of the United States than Lyle Denniston. His analysis of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is spot on (via Writes Like She Talks), but I take exception to this passage: [...]
I agree with the majority decision yesterday by the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. My reason is simple: I really, really, really believe in the power of the First Amendment to our Constitution. Censorship is the greatest threat to any free society. The correct response to objectionable speech is [...]
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