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The Washington Post offers a brief item this morning on the upcoming Citizens United reargument. Robert Barnes writes, “The court is considering whether to overturn its previous decisions that restrict unions and corporations from using their general ...
From JOHN SAMPLES,
Cato@Liberty,
18 Aug 2009
A new ABC/Washington Post poll is out. The trends are not comforting for the White House. President Obama’s approval rating - probably the most important number for a president these days - continues to drop. Approval by independents has fallen by 9 ...
From JOHN SAMPLES,
Cato@Liberty,
20 Jul 2009
"I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government." -Barack Obama. Is that so? http://bit.ly/h1tgd # 2009/06/30
Wondering what this whole "cybersecurity" thing is all about? Here's your answer: ...
From JOHN SAMPLES,
Cato@Liberty,
2 Jul 2009
The Court decided Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce in 1989. The state of Michigan had prohibited corporations from spending money on electoral speech. In the case in question, the Chamber of Commerce wished to pay for an advertisement backing a ...
From JOHN SAMPLES,
Cato@Liberty,
30 Jun 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to decide in its current term the campaign finance case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Instead, the Court issued an order that the case should be reargued. The parties in the reargument should ...
From JOHN SAMPLES,
Cato@Liberty,
29 Jun 2009
The poll found little change in underlying public attitudes toward government since the inauguration, with slightly more than half saying they prefer a smaller government with fewer services to a larger government with more services. Independents, ...
From JOHN SAMPLES,
Cato@Liberty,
23 Jun 2009
Bruce Bartlett has a good opinion piece on money in politics in Forbes. He mostly focuses on self-funding candidates who rarely win even when they contribute large sums to their own campaigns. The recent Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia, ...
From JOHN SAMPLES,
Cato@Liberty,
12 Jun 2009
Cameron's reform ideas take centre stage; the world reacts to North Korea's nuclear ambitions; and sauropods didn't slouch, in our daily audio show with Jim Falzarano
David Cameron has added his suggestions to the long list of proposals for cleaning up ...
From SIMON TISDALL, NICHOLAS WATT, JOHN HOOPER, IAN SAMPLE,
Guardian Unlimited,
27 May 2009
The public continues to broadly support stricter environmental laws and regulation, but its willingness to pay higher prices, and suffer slower economic growth for the sake of environmental protection has declined substantially from two years ago. In ...
From JOHN SAMPLES,
Cato@Liberty,
21 May 2009
Cleveland Park, an upscale neighborhood here in the District of Columbia, might be the last place you would expect appeals to the principles of the free market. It is, after all, the home of what David Brooks once called ”Ward Three Morality,” an ...
From JOHN SAMPLES,
Cato@Liberty,
23 Apr 2009
