Occupy Wall Street Goes Mainstream

Ken O'Brien

On Tuesday night the Los Angeles City Council went on record as the first major city passing a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not persons and that money is not speech.

The Examiner.com reported, "Thanks to ground work by the U.S. Green Party, the wave of Occupy Wall Street empowerment and Human Rights Alert, today, Los Angeles became the first major U.S. city to vote against corporate personhood and call for a Constitutional Amendment asserting corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights and that money is not free speech. The vote was unanimous."

Tea Party Dilemma – Constitution or Debt Ceiling?

Kenneth M. O’Brien

The Tea Party ignorati are confronted with a new dilemma.

We all know that they are devoted to a strict interpretation of, and adherence to, the Constitution of the United States,

We also know that they are dead-set against any increase in the current debt ceiling. Never mind that the increase in the debt ceiling is to pay for debts already incurred.

These two virtually religious convictions are turning out to be directly contradictory.