Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

Without satellite broadband, people like me who live outside cities and need to run online businesses are usually up a creek to put it politely - it’s pretty hard to do that sort of thing using dialup (it CAN be done, but it’s NOT easy).
In fact, I did it on dialup (on 30+ year old […]

Dr. Laibow just sent out a followup newsletter to let all of us know her site, HealthFreedomUSA.org, the site of the Natural Solutions Foundation, has been yanked by her hosting company http://1and1.com. She’s not sure why since no one at the hosting company will speak to her. “I wrote about the genocidal intent of the […]

Scientists travelling abroad who work for the US Fish and Wildlife Service are no longer allowed to speak about Polar Bears. This is the edict that has fallen from on high. Even when the Scientists are at conferences to discuss Global Warming they are not to discuss Polar bears. Scientists have been censored by the […]

As Intrade offers odds on the Presidential Pardon of Scooter Libby, the questions surrounding the firing of DOJ Attorneys who were investigating Government Corruption and the last minute changes to the Patriot Act allowing those firings, are heating up as the investigation by Congress into those firings and the reasons behind them continue.
And whose name […]

In his darkly humorous way, Carl Hiassen, has, in his recent Miami Herald article entitled We Have Seen the Future and It’s Not Pretty points up the problem with today’s “new New Journalism”.
But this is the new New Journalism, which is steered by a core belief that people would rather be smothered by seedy gossip […]

To anyone who is following the RIAA’s overzealous attempt to put the music sharing Genie back in its Bottle, it’s obvious they’re fighting a losing battle. But they are fighting tooth and nail, and usually using dirty tricks since the stakes are so huge. Huge numbers of lawsuits against mostly working class people have been […]

Have a look here at the latest post by Weasel Times and Intelligencer:
“On Monday, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research published a press release revealing that Al Gore’s mansion in Belle Meade uses more electricity in a month than the average family uses in a year. And I keep coming back to that. Belle Meade.
Belle […]

Yet another wedge is being driven between US Citizens and their rights. According to a CNet article, “Hundreds of millions of Americans will have until 2013 to be outfitted with new digital ID cards, the Bush administration said on Thursday in a long-awaited announcement that reveals details of how the new identification plan will work.” […]

Again, I’ve not in the past been over-thrilled with Rocky Anderson. He’s mostly a “little too out there” among other things.
But this time, I think he’s right with calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheyney - regardless that Dick Cheyney’s rather a “Mr. Bumba” of a VP, relatively harmless (unless he’s pointing a […]