document.write('<br>  <h4 style="color:#387C2F;" > Maintaining a Fiction</h4>  <p class="date">Posted on  Tuesday, 9 March, 2010</p>  <p> Below is the text of the recent House Ethics Committee report which exonerated all 7 members who were being investigated for giving earmarks to companies connected to the PMA lobbying group. What is noteworthy is how surprised the committee seems tha... <a href="http://www.commonblog.com/2010/03/09/maintaining-a-fiction/">Read more &#187;</a></p><br>  <h4 style="color:#387C2F;" > Really?</h4>  <p class="date">Posted on  Thursday, 4 March, 2010</p>  <p> The continuing debate over health care reform has become an issue in and of itself, leading several national publications and pundits to begin wondering if Washington is broken.� Partisanship in Washington has indeed risen to the point where it ... <a href="http://www.commonblog.com/2010/03/04/really/">Read more &#187;</a></p><br>  <h4 style="color:#387C2F;" > Citizens for Better Blogging</h4>  <p class="date">Posted on  Monday, 1 March, 2010</p>  <p> The NYT on Saturday ran a piece on new ways corporations can spend unlimited amounts on elections � anonymously � by using non-profits (aka front groups) to serve as a pass-through. The Citizens United decision didn&#146;t just free companies to produ... <a href="http://www.commonblog.com/2010/03/01/citizens-for-better-blogging/">Read more &#187;</a></p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="http://www.commonblog.com/">Click for more...</a></p>')