Prop C, LA Measure To Overturn Citizens United, Will Be Voted On By Angelenos Next Week (VIDEO)
When Angelenos go to the polls next week to choose the next mayor of Los Angeles, they also will be the largest electorate to vote on a ...
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Carl Gibson: A Simple, 4-Step Method to End Corporate Personhood
f you knew you could end the concept of corporate personhood at the local level, and that everyone all over the country was doing it too, wouldn't ...
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Corporate Personhood
Josh Silver: Secrets Revealed: Corruption, Money and Power In Washington
Money in politics corruption is universally reviled by the American public. It blocks progress on most issues, squanders billions of dollars from ...
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citizens united
Ru Freeman: PEN International: Mobilizing Writers to Defend Free Speech
Writers are people armed with words, and PEN is an organization, with centers around the world, which boasts of a 91 year history of using those ...
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free speech
Gabe Elsner: ALEC's Most Wanted: Exposing a Front Group for Fossil Fuel Interests (and Other Corporations)
The Center for Media and Democracy's (CMD) Brendan Fischer and Nick Surgey uncovered an internal document from the American Legislative Exchange ...
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Media and Democracy
IRS Targeting Of Non-Profit Groups For Extra Scrutiny Shifted: Report
* "Tea Party," other key words were initially used -report * Criticism of "how country being run" was also eyed * Full watchdog report expected to be ...
Christopher Brauchli: Corporations, Humans and Taxes
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. ~ Plato, The Republic ...
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citizens united
Timothy Karr: Internet Uncertainty
When asked whether the Internet has been a force for good or evil, Zeynep Tufekci likes to answer "Yes." In other words, it is both the best of times ...
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free speech
Jonathan Backer: Why Big Money Still Won in 2012
“We got way too excited over money in the 2012 elections,” Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein argued at a conference on money in politics at Yale ...
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citizens united
Cheerleaders In Texas Win 'Bible Banner' Law Suit, Bible Verses Ok At Sporting Events
Reuters) - A Texas judge on Wednesday ruled that the "Bible banners" waved by cheerleaders during football games in a small school district are ...
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free speech