January 2010
8 posts
Laura Sullivan of NPR reports on one of the many needlessly expensive, unjust aspects of our prison-industrial complex: bail. The system has been hijacked by politically connected bail-bondsmen, so that poor, non-violent offenders will rot in jail (pre-trial), all so that the bondsmen can retain their market share with clients that can pay. Sullivan gets one of these guys to admit on record that...
“It is very difficult to have a democracy without citizens. It is impossible to...”
– Joe Klein
E.J. Dionne passes along a possible way forward on healthcare, one that wouldn’t rely on trusting the word of the Senate:
So here’s an idea, I have been told reliably, that leaders of both Houses are considering: The House would pass a version of the reconciliation bill containing the various amendments and send it to the Senate. The Senate would change it slightly (in ways that the House...
I really can’t overstate how dejected I am after the Supreme Court decision to throw away a century of campaign finance law in defense of the divine rights of corporations, and the special protected status of United States Dollars. I’ve discussed before the perverse ideology of the five-member majority of the Roberts court, and they have made some awful decisions over their four years...
WatchThe Republicans are playing chess, and the Democrats, well, listen to how Jon Stewart puts it.
