April 24th, 2010   Tags:

RIGHT-WING BACKLASH

As a bleeding heart liberal living in Arizona’s wild-west, I am really struggling at the moment. The euphoria of Barak Obama’s election seems a dim and distant memory. The right wing backlash to both his election and healthcare reform has been fierce and not a little frightening.We have seen Democrat congressmen and women being [...]

March 12th, 2010   Tags:

CORPORATE SPEECH

On January 21st 2010, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in the case of Citizens United v . Federal Elections Commission. In a 5 – 4 vote, it ruled that there should no longer be any restrictions on the amount of money corporations and unions can spend on electioneering, technically defined in [...]