The Supreme Court will likely rule on the Affordable Care Act in the summer of 2012, just months before the election. If they uphold the constitutionality of the law, that could be a modest political win for the Obama campaign. It would serve to undercut the Republican attack that the law was an “unconstitutional” government [...]

For their role in the mortgage crisis alone, S&P deserves to have their government seal of approval revoked for their reckless use of their ratings authority. A decision could be handed down any day. Call the SEC now and tell them to revoke S&P’s government seal of approval for their reckless use of their ratings authority

The media cheered the astro-turf Tea Party protests as genuine populist expressions of justifiable outrage, whereas Kevin Gosztola has been almost alone in giving fair coverage to the Wall Street protesters.

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Montana’s Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer believes his state should follow Vermont’s lead in progressive health care reform at the state level. He plans to ask the federal government to grant Montana waivers to adopt a better system modeled after the one used in the neighboring Canadian province of Saskatchewan. From the Billings Gazette: Schweitzer told [...]

The Department of Justice today filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review an appellate court’s ruling that struck down the Affordable Care Act. From the Justice Department blog: The Department of Justice filed a cert petition today asking the Supreme Court to review the 2-1 decision of the Court of Appeals for the [...]

Tell Secretary Salazar: Force Full Disclosureof Fracking Fluid Chemicals! Big energy is fond of saying there’s no proof that the chemicals they’re using in fracking operations are causing the rash of horrific suffering in those who live nearby.  Why?  Because despite the fact that each fracking well leaves millions of gallons of wastewater in its [...]

Trust in the federal government has now reached an all time record low according to CNN’s polling.  The previous low was set back in 1994. From CNN: A CNN/ORC International Poll released Wednesday morning indicates that only 15 percent of Americans say they trust the government in Washington to do what’s right just about always [...]

Health insurance premiums for a typical employer-provided family policy grew by an incredible 9 percent this year according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation study. Not only have premiums increased for employers, but the employee cost sharing has gone up as well. Compared to only a few years ago, there has been a big increase [...]

Reducing our spending on overseas military commitments is the deficit reduction idea that has the broadest public support across all partisan groups, according to new Pew Research Center poll. Solid majorities of regular Democrats, Republicans and independents all want to see America stop wasting so much money on foreign military commitments. While raising taxes on [...]

Has Fracking Affected Your Community?   » Take our 1-question survey. From Maine to Monterey, Utah to Utica — big energy corporations like Halliburton are bribing your local officials for the right to pump “proprietary chemicals” into open fractures beneath the earth that flow into local water formations. In the huge Marcellus Shale natural gas [...]