Political Irony

Last year, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker became notorious for stripping public workers of their right to collective bargaining. But last week, a federal judge reversed the key provisions of that law. What makes this ironic is that the judge repeatedly cited the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, saying that Walker’s law violated the free speech [...]

© Jen Sorensen Commentary by Jen Sorensen: I spent way too much time last weekend reading about pink slime. I really wanted to get to the bottom of the slimebucket, if you will. This particular controversy has been burbling (and oozing and gurgling) ever since celebrity chef Jamie Oliver did a segment trashing the stuff [...]

Bank of America has announced that it has changed its mind and will not start charging customers $5 a month for using their debit cards. Other banks have dropped similar fees as well. Of course, I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop and for them to announce other fees instead.

© Ruben Bolling If corporations are people, then why do some people argue that taxing corporations is “double taxation”? Doesn’t that mean that corporations are not people? And why aren’t corporations bound by the same political contribution limits as actual people? Silly me, I guess what the Supreme Court meant is that corporations have all [...]

I get annoyed any time some pundit trots out the statistic that the corporate tax rate in the US is higher than most countries. The actual tax rate is not very meaningful when there are plenty of ways to shelter corporate income from taxes. Indeed, the US has one of the lowest effective tax rates [...]

Having a problem forming a Political Action Committee (PAC)? There is another approach you can try — It’s called a SuperPAC. Learn all about it from Stephen Colbert:

Glenn Greenwald has a disturbing report concerning WikiLeaks, Bank of America, and the merger of corporate and government power in this country. I’m loathe to use the overused word “fascism” but the textbook definition of that particular f-word is the alignment of the government and economy of a country around corporatist interests. Just in case [...]