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This December, I’m Making A List

December 21, 2020
by Caroline Miller
126 members of Congress challenge the 2020 election, 2020 election, Citizens United, court cases to overturn the 2020 election, Democracy under duress, Fairness Doctrine, vote by mail
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Those of us who see challenges through a filter of optimism can feel vindicated for that optimism because, despite warnings to the contrary, the 2020 Presidential election was fair.  Never mind that more than 50 court filings were intended to upend the results. Or, that  126 members
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These Truths Republicans and Democrats Should Hold To Be Self-Evident

August 27, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Cato Institute, Citizens United, Fairness Doctrine, fear among Republicans and Democrats, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Glass-Steagall Act
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A former student of mine, now in his early 60s, visited me for coffee, recently.  We tried to avoid discussing politics, but it was the elephant in the room. Eventually,  my “young” friend admitted he found the antics in Washington, D. C. depressing.  Knowing he was a liberal D
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Citizens United: Another Fine Mess We’ve Gotten Ourselves Into

August 24, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Adam Winkler, Citizens United, Company Men, First Amendment, Fourtheen Amendment, Kim Phillips-Fein, Pogo, Ralph Nader
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How in the world did our Supreme Court come to the conclusion that corporations were people? Citizens United  The debate over whether they are or not had been going on for 200 years, though I little knew it.  As late as 1914, in a case before the Michigan Supreme Court, a brewery lo
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Draining The Swamp

December 20, 2016
by Caroline Miller
Andy Kroll, Bob Moser, Citizens United, dark money, David Bossee, Donald Trump, NRA, super pacs, Swamp Creatures, under funding watchdog agencies
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Recently, I described how the National Rifle Association (NRA) influences gun control laws by funneling campaign contributions to friendly legislators. (Blog 12/13/2016)  Naturally, when our president-elect made a campaign promise to “drain the swamp,” I hoped he meant he’d dis
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I Think That I Shall Never See A Tree In Court

September 23, 2016
by Caroline Miller
14th Amendment, Astra Taylor, chief justce Morrison Waite, Citizens United, Community Evironment Legal Defense Fund, corporations as persons, Grant Township, Pennsylvania General Engergy Company, Who Speaks for the Trees?
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Under the law corporations are people, right?  That ruling, by the way, wasn’t the outcome of Citizen’s United.  It appeared in the 1886  case of Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. While the Supreme Court didn’t settle the railroad case on the question of personhoo
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Drilling With Tax Money

November 12, 2013
by Caroline Miller
Citizens United, government bloat, US oil subsidies
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oil subsidies
A friend who lives in South Africa sent me a clipping from her Cape Town newspaper. The article complained about the growing bureaucracy in that country and called for reform. That bureaucratic bloat was beginning to show its ugly head there came as no surprise to me. Bloat is a natur
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