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Most folks — other than lawmakers and lobbying interests — have paid little attention to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act until news stories focused on website blackouts that cropped up in protest.
The House version of the bill, called SOPA, sits in the House Judiciary Committee. The Senate version, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, called PIPA, awaits a floor vote.
In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled, in the case of Citizens United vs. Federal Election Committee, that the government could not censor the political broadcasts of a conservative non-profit organization called Citizens United. The Court ruled: "If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech." The ruling applied both to nonprofits and to for-profit corporations.
If prognostications come true about the world ending in 2012, one thing will be saved: Social Security.
Economic experts say that starting this year, the trust fund stops taking in more money that it pays out.
Yet, it remains the one topic all politicians choose to avoid, except maybe Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum.
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Nov 28USPS needs congressional stocking-stuffer to keep from going belly up, says inspector by Mac McKerral
