To Logan, Did you actually read the quote or just spew the usual "the commies, the commies". What part of "increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector". do you not understand. Now let me see, goals of the transnational corporate private sector and government action... hmmm...wasn't there a quote from Mussolini that described such a system, now what did he call it...oh yea, that would be fascism. You call yourself a Patriot although you are the enablers of the Transnational/industrial/financial/military complex takeover of our government. Our government no longer acts on behalf of "We The People", it represents the corporate agenda. Yea that's right, you guys keep a steely eye out for the imaginary communist somewhere over the horizon while the corporatist/fascist are walking through the back door.

To jim k: Do you mean like Roberts who has a 100% voting record against the citizenry and for corporations - oh wait a minute my mistake that was George Bush 43. Let me try again, the 5 right-wing corporatists that fully ensconced the "corporations as people" doctrine. Oh nuts, wrong again- they were all appointed by Republican Presidents.

Based on court rulings over the last thirty years and especially under the Roberts court, the above quotation should be modified: "... The federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government AND LARGE CORPORATE ENTITIES AGAINST THE CITIZENRY. Many on this blog view the world around us from the John Birch "The commies are coming, the commies are coming" position, but in reality it is the Corporate oligarchs that are seizing control of our government and implementing a corporate police state. We have failed to heed Eisenhower's admonishment and the result today is a federal court dominated by corporatist who have recently taken the final step toward realizing the corporate state. This movement, started with the fraudulent head-note associated with the Santa Clara County v Southern-Pacific Railroad (1886), has declared corporations "persons" with full rights under the Constitution as persons, and immortal persons at that.

Texas is in the midst of an epic drought, to end the drought Rick Perry holds a stadium- sized prayer meeting to pray for rain. In answer to their prayers god sets Texas ablaze.