Hopes springs eternal. A constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decison has been proposed and introduced in Congress. Now there’s a petition. It may not help, but it can’t hurt. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, a co-sponsor of the amendment, is not mentioned on the petition site. I’m not sure why. It looks … Continue reading There’s a petition to support the Citizens United amendment
While the country’s economy is going to hell in a handbasket, our elected representatives are not spending their every waking hour trying to fix it. They should be, but instead, while the super committee is busy coming up with economic solutions, the remaining members of Congress are using their free time to move ahead on … Continue reading Congress is taking aim at our Internet
Herman Cain’s attitude toward women is starting to make me sick. Four women have accused him of sexual harassment, and one of them described something more akin to assault than harassment. Two of the women have gone public. Cain, of course, has denied any of it ever happened. That’s all. No evidence, no defense. Just … Continue reading A woman’s take on Herman Cain
Last night Penn State University trustees fired head coach Joe Paterno for his seeming complicity in and indifference to a child molestation incident in 2002. The university president was also fired. The firing came just hours after Paterno announced his intention to retire at the end of the season. In 2002, then–graduate assistant Mike McQueary … Continue reading Feet of clay
Democratic Senators Michael Bennet (CO) and Tom Udall (NM) introduced a constitutional amendment yesterday that would effectively overturn the controversial Citizens United decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. Citizens United was the decision that said, in effect, “corporations (and unions) are people” and freed them to contribute huge amounts of money to political campaigns in … Continue reading Amendment proposed to overturn Citizens United decision
Silly me. I should have known. If the Chinese saw the potential, so would everyone else in the world. That’s a lot of people gaming the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to grab citizenship for their babies. Pregnant? Come to the U.S. to give birth and your baby will automatically be an American … Continue reading ‘Birth tourism’ perverting the system
