They didn’t fight as hard as they could, they got pretty much what they wanted.

The Citizen’s United ruling has clearly unleashed a flood of outside corporate spending on our elections, and we don’t even know who is trying to shape our government with their millions. The beneficiary of all this new secret campaign spending is overwhelmingly the Republican Party.

Obviously there are a lot of recruiting centers all over the country, and clearly not all of them have the most up-to-date information. But if you take this example, the military just violated a court order by denying access to an eligible potential service member.

While debate rages in the United States on whether to allow George W. Bush’s tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans to expire, Hillary Clinton spoke Thursday in Brussels before a planned Friday meeting of “Friends of Democratic Pakistan”, calling for Pakistan to expand its tax base. Clinton’s call for Pakistan to force the rich to bear their fair share of the tax burden seems to be a message that the US should heed, as well.

What exactly have banks done in the past decade to earn anyone’s trust? It’s time to end this charade that acts as a lead weight on the economy.

If the Treasury Department knows that the big banks broke the law and the community banks have played by the rules, then why are we spending so much money bailing out the criminal banks? Why not just reward the community banks for doing it right?

Jane makes a really excellent point. Team Obama’s failure to clearly articulate a clear, simple vision for Democratic governance let the Republicans define it — which opened the door to non-stop silly season.

Votes shouldn’t be wasted on voters says vowel and consonant generalist.

T-Bone Walker with Jazz At The Philharmonic.

I am, of course, as is well-known, a Totally Serious Pundit Thinker Gravely Concerned over the Sad Decline of Our National Discourse, a Discourse which is, like, currently right now, totally in The Shitter. I think I speak for Serious Pundit Thinkers everywhere when I say this. Like the Atlantic’s Michael Hirschorn, I place the [...]