How is this allowed in the United States? NEW YORK (AP) – Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan said Tuesday she was hurt slightly in a scuffle that erupted when police broke…

…uncomfortable position, it would make sense to start proposing fallback positions that at least get personal accounts started. One idea would be to defuse the fatuous “risky stock market” argument…

Free Trade Update Matt Yglesias reports from the convention that Laura D’Andrea Tyson (former Clinton National Economic Adviser and current Kerry advisor), in no uncertain terms, stated that Kerry supports…

…purported to also be in favor of free trade, so they were about the same on that one issue (though we quickly saw that free trade only gets lip service…

…that cutely combined Citizens United’s corporate-free-speech rights with Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Wood’s corporate-right-to exercise-religion claim. Given that the claim there was a free-expression-in-the-exercise-of-religion argument brought under the First Amendment’s speech clause…

…a stake in the corporations’ financial well-being. And protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, Conestoga, and Mardel protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and…

…claim under “free market” theory; and (ii) find it much easier to blame the misfortune of ordinary Americans on their purported laziness and “lack of personal responsibility.” (See earlier Taxing…

…set loose, and it does not need to be freed from Congressional control. Giving the leaders of the Postal Service a free hand is not going to help matters. They…

…America’s richest families have farmed out their collusion to institutional entities who control markets (and market pricing), with small groups of institutions controlling all the players in each industry. The…

You really should read the third paragraph of Harry Reid’s letter to Comey bearing today’s date….