Saturday, January 23, 2010

In Passing

In passing ..
 I found this stuff (read between the lines)


Cool, but not too
U.S. slips to rank of ‘mostly free’
The U.S. continues to enjoy a strong position — ranked as the 8th freest economy in the world — but lost 2.7 rating points because of its handling of the economic downturn.

GOP: CALL THE DEMOCRATS' BLUFF AND REGULATE THE BANKS, DEMS BIGGEST DONORS (Ann Coulter's title)
It isn't the thirties anymore. Wall Street owns the Democratic Party

Donk Twit
Overheard: I am the ocean, you are shore. I will wear you out.

They Are Like Rats: New Hidden Digs For Senators
Shhhhhhh. The perks of Senate membership just got sweeter.

Tea Party Crashers
Movements can be stifled or stopped by publicly disclosing certain conversations, thoughts, or plans made in private. Indeed, the government has often sought to interrupt the privacy of peaceable association before causes become too big.

Sanity check: 2008 & 2009 Were The Coolest Years Since 1998 in the USA

Why the Court protected us last Thursday
(and why it's okay to go back to despising John McCain)
Do you want government regulating what movies can be shown to the public? Do you want the government determining what movies can be advertised? Or what books can be sold?

Early reactions to the blockbuster free speech decision
... it is a rather one-sided list. This just isn't a day when I'm inclined to give the proponents of censorship equal time. (not withstanding Stuart Taylor, Jr.)

Obama has suspicious number of letter-writing fans named 'Ellie Light'
In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.
I love Stuart Taylor's "Kennedy all too cavalierly bats aside a compelling argument for banning executives from spending shareholder funds on elections."   Stuart,Stuart, Stuart ...

5 comments:

Arthur Rackham said...

So who's the big winner in the SCOTUS campaign finance decision? The candidates? No, it just changes the rules a bit. We the people? Tell me how.

No, the big winner is the media. Where does all the money spent on campaign advertising end up?

Snackeater said...

The SCOTUS decision on Citizens United v FEC is great on so many levels.

-It permits unlimited use of advocacy ads, and just in time for the 2010 elections

-And while advocacy ads won't really matter until the fall, the ruling gives even more momentum to the Republicans now

-It's yet another repudiation of McCain-Feingold

But one of the best things about it is this: the case is a result of Democrats trying to ban a movie in an attempt to protect Hillary! during the 2008 primary. But she managed to lose anyway. So the Democrats basically slit their own throats--and for nothing.

As Rush is fond of saying, "Put a flaming bag of poo in front of a Democrat and they'll step in it every time."

Rodger the Real King of France said...

I think the biggest winner is the first amendment, which dearly needed a victory.

Snackeater said...

Amen.

Anonymous said...

I've never heard Rush say that about flaming poo.

M/F was unconstitutional prima facia. Let the old bastard reap what he has sown.

Casca

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