| Sep 19, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyStephen Colbert, every liberal’s favorite mock conservative, has taken to calling his viewers “heroes” as he exhorts them to contribute to his Super PAC. What’s a Super PAC you ask? Good question. It’s a money-laundering device that...
| Jul 11, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyWisconsin Republicans have finally stopped pretending to uphold the sanctity of the political process. Instead of allowing the will of the Wisconsin electorate to determine the fate of six Republican state senators facing recall elections, Republican Party leaders...
| | Rights / DemocracyRepublicans swept last year’s elections. The GOP captured more than 675 state legislative seats, flipped 10 governor’s mansions, gained control of over 20 state legislative chambers, and won more than 60 seats in Congress previously occupied by Democrats....
| May 23, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyCome on, Obama, do it. Stand up, stand tall, stand firm. Yes, you can! President Barack Obama is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court’s dastardly Citizens United edict, which...
| Feb 7, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyElections keep Our land afloat; But all’s not equal When we vote. You may believe that on Election Day all of officialdom momentarily unites in urging us to vote. Leaders–rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, business and labor–want us to do our...
