Why Citizens United Was Decided Correctly

By: Viet71 (Diary)  |  February 9th at 11:44 AM  | 

The outrage over the decision in the Citizens United case is misplaced. Four points need to be made about the law as it stood just before Citizens United was decided: 1)    Media corporations were free to publish advocacy and issue “ads,” although congress held the power to end this freedom.  This was federal law as to federal elections. Advocacy ad:  Vote for  (or against) Candidate | Read More »

What the Left Wants to Do to this Country

By: Viet71 (Diary)  |  February 1st at 12:46 AM  | 

Make no mistake about it.  Mainstream lefty blogs like Firedoglake are controlled or heavily populated by people who want to overturn Citizens United and give Congress the power to censor (control) corporate political speech. I wouldn’t mind so much if they were honest about it.  But they’re not.  They’re spreading all kinds of lies. The chief lie is that corporations now can give unlimited amounts | Read More »