How to Achieve Transparency for the Supercommittee

How to Achieve Transparency for the Supercommittee

Come December, the priorities and role of our government could be drastically and fundamentally altered. Are your views and concerns being heard? The supercommittee created in the wake of the debt ceiling clash is comprised of 12 members of Congress tasked with...
Heroes of the Republic

Heroes of the Republic

Stephen 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...
AT&T Takeover of T-Mobile Won’t Create New Jobs

AT&T Takeover of T-Mobile Won’t Create New Jobs

The fury surrounding the debt ceiling deal was so boisterous and rowdy that most Americans took a while to notice that it does nothing to create jobs. In a ginned-up crisis during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Congress haggled over social...
A Little Less Corporate Political Corruption

A Little Less Corporate Political Corruption

Come 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...