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November 2nd, 2010 | 9 Comments

Back to the real story of this election, which is the $4 BILLION spent–as much as (and possibly more than, when it’s all counted) the last presidential election.  Most of the money, thanks to the Supreme Court’s outrageous Citizens United decision and the inability of Congress to pass the Disclose Act, is secret. We simply [...]

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Purple Fingers

August 20th, 2009 | Leave a comment

The attempt by the Taliban to prevent the Afghan election evidently failed miserably. True, the vote totals were down from the last election, especially in areas controlled by the insurgents, but the people of that poor country genuinely want to choose their own government, and few want to return to the insane rule of the [...]

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