Our friends over at Common Cause have had just about enough of -- well, a whole bunch of things. They've launched a new campaign, "Recapture the Flag" to put a little dignity back in our democracy and get Congress back to working on behalf of its constituents including weeding out corruption and special interest influence over our government. Visit here to learn more about this campaign and get involved.

As I mentioned yesterday, Public Campaign along with Common Cause and Progressive Maryland released a report yesterday on the correlation between energy deregulation and campaign contributions.

Do you live in Maryland? Are you paying a ridiculously large increase in your energy costs this year? It probably has something to do with the electricity deregulation legislation that passed in 1999.