Samm's Blog

In all my years as a parent, a corporate executive, an activist or a candidate, I have never received a communication such as the one that arrived on Wednesday from State Representative Rick Kriseman. What's even more remarkable about being on the receiving end of a letter - which can only be described as "attacking" - is that I can't even recall one time where Representative Kriseman and I have...

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Looks like our tax dollars are going to be bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies, as the debt bubble from speculation, greed, lack of regulation and Congressional oversight are grinding together in a perfect, and catastrophic, storm.

[Robert Reich's blog](http://robertreich.b...

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Tragically, a Democratic led Congress voted to give the President new warrant less eavesdropping powers and a get out of jail free card to the telecommunications companies who hooked up the National Security Agency to our private conversations. All lawsuits concerning the illegal invasion of privacy will now be discarded.

The [ACLU](http://www.aclu.org/...

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Here's a rough video featuring Daniel Ellsberg - of Pentagon Papers fame - in an interview where he describes FISA - the Federal Information and Surveillance Act.

On July 9th, there's going ...

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