Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

Because of Media Consolidation in the hands of conservative and predominantly white males, our media is sadly broken. Only when there is an overwhelming response to a movement or action on the web does it finally get any play on any of the Big Media outlets, and then it’s very slow, very small, and very […]

I wrote a few days back about the incredible intestinal fortitude and awesome leadership shown by Chris Dodd, who took a day out of his Campaigning in Iowa (which he could ill afford) so he could do the right thing in Congress, his “day job” for which he was elected and is paid. He stood […]

According to the AlterNet blog, Santa just delivered over 37,000 copies of the Constitution of the United States to the White House. Apparently there are a lot of Americans who doubt that President Bush has ever even read the document that he is sworn to preserve, protect and defend. A few have speculated that it […]

Today Chris Dodd will most likely be filibustering. Why? Because President Bush and his rubberstamp Congresspeople want to trash the Constitution in order to hide Bush’s illegal activities. They want to grant the Telecomm corporations who spied on US citizens Immunity from Prosecution and hide their activities behind a veil of secrecy posing as “security”. […]

So lately the ISPs, most recently Rogers in Canada, have been shooting themselves in the foot by proving they cannot be trusted to act as a dumb pipe and deliver the content that internet users request. Rogers was recently caught inserting their own content into webpages, with the excuse that they needed to let their […]

The Energy Legislation that has been finally hammered out and is due to be pushed through both the Senate and the House is both a success and a failure. It’s about time that Members of Congress realized that just because higher MPG standards for cars might hurt folks in certain voting districts, that overall, for […]