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...Supreme Court recently voted 5-4 in favor of giving corporations and unions freedom to run campaign ads directly supporting candidates for 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...
Toyota hasn't tallied how much the recall will cost, said Yoshimi Inaba, the company's top executive in the U.S., after a speech in Detroit. But he said Toyota is committed to using the recalls to impress customers with the company's service. "It is an opportunity to prove ourselves to them," he said...
...youngest woman to be elected to the City Council in 1999, Decker drew upon her background as a daughter of working class parents growing up in public housing in Cambridge and pointed to her 10-year record on the council in her speech...
Giving a transformational presidential speech while trapped in politically toxic quicksand is no easy task. And as he mounts the rostrum in the House of Representatives' chamber on Wednesday night, the forces arrayed against Barack Obama - both real and those conjured by the politico-media maelstrom - are fierce...
Although Obama has a history of using big speeches to spark or recalibrate his fortunes (the Democratic National Convention keynote in Boston in 2004, his Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner speech in 2007, his oration on race in 2008, which was prompted by the controversy surrounding Chicago pastor Jeremiah Wright), no realistic appraiser of Obama's looming State of the Union believes he can turn everything around with one prime-time address. (See the State of the Union Address in 3 Minutes...