Linda P. Campbell

What's more likely to call attention to the outrage that is the super PAC: a bunch of Occupiers showing up at federal courthouses Friday -- or Colbert Nation upending Saturday's South Carolina Republican primary by voting for Herman Cain?

Two years ago Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court unleashed super PAC funding on American voters by ruling that key restrictions on campaign spending amounted to censorship of corporations and labor unions that wanted to pour big money into electing candidates. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the court said corporations, which are created strictly by the laws that shield them, have the same free speech rights as people, who are created by a power greater than the state.

Texas' Republican leaders dislike the Voting Rights Act.

No revelation there.

Republicans also supposedly despise having unelected "activist" judges supersede the will of elected representatives.

It would be easier to take Republicans in Congress seriously on health insurance reform if they didn't keep spouting mischaracterizations and distortions about what really happens in the system today.

Let's just take some assertions in a Friday column our local U.S. House members wrote to justify their vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

High-profile Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are a piece of work.

During the first three days of hearings on Elena Kagan's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, some in the opposition party tried to paint her as a military-hating, anti-free speech, danger-to-the-Constitution progressive who's so out of the "mainstream" that she shouldn't be confirmed.

Looking back, the $400 haircuts and the ostentatious mansion should have been a giveaway that John Edwards really was the pretender his detractors snickered about.