The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices… 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country 545 vs. 300,000,000 People -By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then …
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Michael Sandal’s book, as reviewed here at Phi Beta Iota (see Review: Public Philosophy–Essays on Morality in Politics) prompted my putting forward some related links and thoughts. I highly recommend Michael Sandal’s TED presentation The Lost Art of Democratic Debate “Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says — but we’re shamefully out of practice. …
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Debt ceiling struggle exposing dysfunction in the U.S. political system John Farmer on July 17, 2011 EXTRACT: How’d we get in this fix? It wasn’t easy and it involved many things — congressional redistricting, polarization of both GOP and Democratic Party “bases” and their media sycophants, the increasing influence of lobbying money, and the political …
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Move to Amend: coalition to abolish corporate personhood Cory Doctorow at 8:06 AM Saturday, Jul 2, 2011 A new coalition called Move To Amend is working to abolish corporate personhood in the US; they’re working at the local and state level to pass laws to undo the work of Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruling …
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The Whistle-Blowers of 1777 Stephen M. Kohn New York Times, 12 June 2011 The tension between protecting true national security secrets and ensuring the public’s “right to know” about abuses of authority is not new. Indeed, the nation’s founders faced this very issue. . . . . . . . Later that month, without any …
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James B. Stewart Product Description Bestselling author James B. Stewart’s newsbreaking investigation of our era’s most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic. Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise their hands and tell the truth. In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart reveals in vivid detail …
My friend Jeff Madrick, and old fashioned liberal democrat in the best sense of the term, has penned a pithy analysis of the anti-empirical madness now dominating the contemporary American political economy. Jeff concludes that the Right ignores its track record, particularly regarding the clear economic effects of tax cuts, and is rarely challenged on …
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