Author Archives: Paul McElligott

Jim McGovern vs. Citizens United

Massachusetts congressman Jim McGovern got an unprecedented number of eyeballs (for floor speech in the House) on Reddit when he proposed not one but two constitutional amendments directed at the Citizens United decision. ((Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (558 U.S. 310), 2010)) These decision effectively removed most barriers to corporations spending unlimited amounts of money on campaigns, outside of what they donate directly to political campaigns. The rationale was that corporations enjoy the same First Amendment rights as you or I, that “corporations are people, too.”

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Gay Marriage is Like What?

According to the Archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone:

Legislating for the right for people of the same sex to marry is like legalizing male breastfeeding. ((“San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone Compares Legalizing Gay Marriage To Male Breastfeeding“, Huffington Post, Meredith Bennett-Smith,January 30, 2013))

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The Marketing Department: Our First Inductee

Welcome to the post honoring the first inductee into the Loyal Opposition’s Hall of Shame or, as we like to call it, The Marketing Dept. of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. ((Many of you may ask why we call it that. Rest assured, there is a good reason, but such knowledge should come to those who actively seek it out.))

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was one of the “gang of three” senators, along with John McCain and Kelly Ayote, who led a vicious smear campaign against UN Ambassador Susan Rice ((“McCain v. Rice: The Unceremonious Quashing of a Candidate,” Huffington Post, Ray Errol Fox, December 22, 2012)) Continue reading