Category: Law

Obama to sign indefinite detention bill into law
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/obama_to_sign_indefinite_detention_bill_into_law/singleton/

Its official! There are no more civil liberties in the US if the President decrees otherwise. Doesn’t matter if you are a US citizen and it doesn’t even matter if you …

Police state this, police state that, I run on and on and on about it. I will probably finally stop droning on about it at some point because I will be arrested for having droned on so much about it, …

I have mentioned the de facto police state we live in now a few times (http://sol-biotech.com/wordpress/?s=%22police+state%22), but it seems that certain members of Congress want to formally make the United States a police state and do away with …

Finally, a Judge Stands up to Wall Street
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/finally-a-judge-stands-up-to-wall-street-20111110

As the author states in his closing paragraph:

… But equally disturbing is the fact that more judges haven’t done the same thing. Are people with backbones really that rare?

It …

Can campaign finance reform unite OWS?
As the movement searches for an agenda, it gives new life to an issue recently thought to be a lost cause
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/08/can_campaign_finance_reform_unite_ows/singleton/

To me money really is the root of our political problems.  Now …

In addition to being a regular reader of Glenn Greenwald (http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/ thanks to bls I have now (re)discovered Matt Taibbi (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog (also see my post yesterday).

I particularly like this post: Wall Street Isn’t Winning – It’s …

Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
Matt Taibbi: A whistle blower says the agency has illegally destroyed thousands of documents, letting financial crooks off the hook.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-covering-up-wall-street-crimes-20110817

Thanks to bls for this link!

As we get more and …

The great corporate tax scam
Politicians who claim U.S. companies pay the highest taxes in the world are lying. Here’s proof
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/03/the_great_corporate_tax_scam/singleton/

To me the travesty is that effective taxes are unequal.  Take just this one example:

DuPont and Monsanto

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