The Supreme Court and Campaign Contributions

Usually, the Supreme Court hears 100 cases a year. Of those, we might hear in the news about one or two of them. One of the cases this year was Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission. It sounds boring in principle: A non-profit organization tried to release a documentary against Hillary...

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Haiti and 2012...

Posted by Matt on Feb 3rd, 2010

Haiti is one of those countries we neither hear of nor care about unless something is going dramatically wrong there (that isn’t a personal slam at Haiti, it’s how Americans view most of the world most of the time), and something has gone dramatically wrong...

State of the Union Breakdown...

Posted by Matt on Jan 29th, 2010

For those who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, his State of the Union was a return to the form that we all knew him in during the election. The Obama of promises! Of hope! And so on. The problem for those whose support he had a year ago, though, is that...

Racism! And 2012...

Posted by Matt on Jan 11th, 2010

It’s like I’m writing for the Onion. Apparently, Republicans are in a tizzy over Harry Reid being a racist. I’ll explain: A book that’s hitting the shelves today called Game Change quotes Harry Reid as saying in 2008 that Obama could have...