Tag Archive: Congress

Apr 11

80 Communists in the House: Allan West vs. Barney Frank

The acrimonious partisanship continues in Washington. At a recent town-hall meeting, Congressman Allen West was asked how many members of the Democratic Party are card-carrying Communists. He said between 78-81 members: Democratic Barney Frank in the Huffington Post quickly responded: “Not even Joe McCarthy would have said anything so stupid and dissociated from reality. It’s …

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Feb 02

How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It

The clarion call is loud and clear from the Occupy Wall Street movement, from libertarians and Democrats and Republicans, from the middle and lower class, and now, from Lawrence Lessig, Harvard law professor and one of America’s true free thinkers: Campaign money has thoroughly corrupted Congress. Lessig, in a Long Now Foundation talk, lays out …

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