Common Sense 154 – A Conflict of Interest

Dan rails against legislators who have close ties to the industries they are supposed to be regulating and reforming. He also addresses one of the under-appreciated environmental problems he believes we can fix.

Show Notes:
1.”Kabul’s K Street Project” by Bruce Falconer, for Mother Jones magazine, June 9, 2009.
2.”Key health care senators have industry ties” by Larry Margasak and Sharon Theimer, June 12, 2009.
3.”Reporter: NSA spied on own wives and girlfriends” by David Edwards and Muriel Kane for The Raw Story, June 19, 2009.
4.”Could we be the generation that runs out of fish?” by Johann Hari, for the Independent, June 5, 2009.
5.”The Axemaker’s Gift” by James Burke and Robert Ornstein