This Times editorial discusses the allegations the paper made involving the Congressional Black Caucus and its fundraising operations. A Washington Post-ABC News poll found strong opposition across the political spectrum to the Supreme Court’s decision that freed corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts on federal campaigns. It was not clear how familiar those polled […]
Month: February 2010
Lessig endorses public financing
Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig endorses public financing in this letter to The Times. Nothing would do more to both blunt the influence of special-interest money and repair the broken public trust than its passage.
The perils of blogging and new links
Did you notice that about ten million blogs (literally) went down yesterday? According to TechCrunch, ten million sites were impacted by a problem at WordPress.com, a popular service that hosts blogs. I self-host using WordPress software so this site wasn’t hit by the outage. * * * * * I’ve added a link in my […]