Fifteen years ago this month, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC). The decision has transformed how elections are funded in the US, and its ramifications have continued to reduce the limitations on who can contribute, how they can do so, and whether they're required to disclose their contributions. The rise of "super PACs," "dark money," and their coordination with candidates arguably can all be attributed to the 5"4 decision that struck down the court's own findings in prior cases: Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (McConnell being the former Majority Leader of the US Senate Mitch McConnell). read more
On the one side stood religious fundamentalism with its insistence on a literal reading of scripture and submission to institutional authority; on the other stood scientific naturalism with its insistence that only empirical methods were valid routes to knowledge. Yet many thinkers fell somewhere between these extremes.
President Donald Trump has pardoned two D.C. police officers who were convicted after one chased a man riding a moped, which ultimately led to his death, and the other helped cover it up. read more
"You have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now." read more
Looming over the president-elect are warnings that many of his policies are more likely to hurt the economy than help it. ... "There's no clear path forward at this time for how to meet all these goals because they're inherently contradictory," said Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute. Here's a closer look at his key promises. read more
The problem, as always, is the gulf between what information Boaz reads and what he understands.
Forget the conclusions drawn. And it's not a left or right issue. There are some foolish liberal posters here. Thing is, they don't lead daily with low-hanging fruit, and keep at it incessantly on issues that don't affect most Americans or even themselves.