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...public office. The reasoning behind the decision is that the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech extends to corporations and unions, meaning they should be able to use their resources at will to support their politician of choice. However, we believe that this decision is a blow to democracy, as the voice of corporations will continue to become unfairly loud in the political realm, drowning out the voices of individual citizens...
...What if running backs weren't allowed to intentionally lead headfirst? The NFL is at least considering such a rule. "What concerns me is the runners," says McKay. "A lot of those hits are voluntary, where a player ducks his head and is in a position to deliver a blow ... that's something we have to look at. Because you see it more today than you did 20 years ago." (See 10 things to watch this NFL season...
Have a heart. It's what Democrats like to think they do best. So President Obama's reaction to the economic crisis has been a predictable spending of trillions to soften the blow. But compassion can have consequences that aren't so compassionate - a nettlesome economic truth that now needs to be applied as Congress plans to extend unemployment benefits for the fifth time since the dark fog of recession settled...
...Kazakhstan to ship oil to Belarus, and Belarus could not afford to pay fair-market prices anyway, says Denis Borisov, an analyst at Bank Moskvy, one of Russia's largest banks. Kazakh companies could, however, undercut Russian bids for the Naftan refinery, he says, which would be a major blow to Russia's energy strategy in Eastern Europe. (See pictures of the Russia-vs.-Georgia...
...Thursday's pile of opinions in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, striking down certain limits on corporate electioneering, found them arrayed in their now familiar 5-to-4 pattern and firing their big rhetorical guns. Depending on which very, very long opinion you prefer, they either struck a blow for the First Amendment or sold American politics into bondage to soulless corporations. (See 25 people who mattered...