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Who’s Really Winning the Smartphone Wars?

September 3, 2012

In our current economic and political environment, we're letting top corporate executives expropriate our public 'property' for private gain. The resulting rewards, for both corporations and their CEOs, can be immense, as the recent Apple patent triumph over Samsung so amazingly demonstrates.

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Ryan's Follies: Back to Liberty

By Joe Firestone

August 16, 2012

More on liberty from Ryan's reply to the President's 2011 SOTU. more »

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Ryan's Follies: Limited Government, Liberty, and Effective Government

By Joe Firestone

August 15, 2012

More Ryan's follies from his answer to the President's 2011 SOTU. These are about that old Republican hypocritical favorite, “small government.”

”So I’d like to share with you the principles that guide us. more »

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Devastating, Job-Killing, Socialist Regulations

By Dave Johnson

December 18, 2011

Conservatives, their movement funded by big oil and king coal, constantly complain about "job-killing regulations." They say that more »

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Our Chronic Cronyism — and Corruption

By Sam Pizzigati

May 1, 2011

America's top bankers and CEOs don't have any more talent than millions of other Americans. They do have, two timely new data dumps remind us, plenty of generous friends in pivotal places.

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In a Democracy, Freedom of Assembly Trumps “Free Enterprise”

By Leo Gerard

February 25, 2011

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It’s illegal in America now to buy or sell a human being, but a recorded telephone conversation between a Republican governor and a guy he thought was a billionaire benefactor shows that it’s still possible to own a politician.

Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker didn’t have time to talk to Democratic leaders or union officials about his anti-union legislation – a proposal that has incited protests by tens of thousands for more than a week in Madison. But he jumped on the phone for 20 minutes this week when told the caller was billionaire David Koch, who was Walker’s second largest campaign contributor, who provided $1 million to a GOP fund to attack Walker’s opponent and who bankrolls radical libertarian organizations and the Tea Party.

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How regulation came to be: Filling it up with Ethyl

By dsteffen

From dailykos.com

February 14th, 2011

dailykos.com — And that ... is where regulation comes from -- not from bored bureaucrats sitting in an office in Washington trying to think up ways to make life miserable and expensive for some innocent and unsuspecting businessman, but from real human suffering and tragedy brought about, all too often, by people who shirk what should be obvious responsibilities, who neglect basic diligence, who sacrifice safety for profit. They bring suffering on those who trust them and their products, and society adopts measures to make sure it never happens again. We have to forcethem, through regulation, to behave as they should have been behaving all along. That's how regulation came to be.

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Paul Ryan On Limited Government

By Joe Firestone

February 1, 2011

In my last two posts I reviewed the deficit reduction aspects of Paul Ryan's Republican response to the SOTU. But Ryan also placed considerable emphasis on the idea of “limited government” in his response. In this post, I want to evaluate what he had to say on this theme. more »

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