Bill de Haas posted this link on Little Acorns/ Mighty Enemies below: POGOshttp://www.contractormisconduct.org/along with an editorial from the Dallas Morning News making a point we all missed: The legislation defunding Acorn will also defund any government contractor that has fraud or misconduct charges against it. Pogo has 100 listed, including some of our biggest military-industrial corporations. Let's see what happens.Here's another report on the same legislation: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/24/the-unintended-consequenc_n_298540.html

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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