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BANZAI7 NEWS--Frustrated Democrats began laying plans Friday to chip away at a landmark Supreme Court decision unleashing corporate expenditures in political campaigns, but the ruling's broad sweep will make it difficult to stem a tidal wave of new spending in this year's pivotal midterm elections.

Major corporations and advocacy groups immediately began devising ways to take advantage of the 5 to 4 decision, which concluded that corporations have the same First Amendment rights as individuals and, therefore, can spend as much company money as they wish to oppose or support individual political candidates.

QUESTION: Which is better, a system where information flow is controlled by the government or a system where information flow is comandeered by giant corporations and special interest groups? Is there any difference?

ANSWER: We will soon find out.