Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

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If ever the Dems had a chance to do what they promised us when we all elected them into the majority, the time is now. If they don’t vote down another $163 Billion for Iraq today, they will have broken (again) every promise they made to us, and at a time when they have THE […]

SmallBusinessNewz is reporting that Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez is pushing hard to get an amendment to the Small Business Act pushed through. This amendment would redefine what a “Small Business” is, and allow large businesses owned up to 49% by Venture Capital Firms to get funding from the Small Business Administration. This means that legitimately small […]

The opening video on the website “The Story of Stuff” is amazing. It encapsulates exactly what I’ve been yelling about since my college days, that our current economy is based upon a pipe dream, and is so totally UNSUSTAINABLE that our children will be eating, drinking, and breathing nothing but waste, toxins and pollution, if […]

If ever there was an argument for telecomm regulation reform by Congress, this is it.
Both MSNBC and the New York Times have reported that National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell has admitted that AT&T and Verizon, as well as other unnamed communications companies, have helped the Bush Administration spy on people. And during that time was […]

There’s a lot going on right now on the Telecomm/Big Media front.
Murdoch. Ugh. Don’t even wanna go there. I hope the FCC starts to do something about this manure. It stinks.
Harold Feld has a wrap up of the humongous heap of paper out of the FCC that documents the Spectrum Auction Rules. It’s a […]

Senator Arlen Specter visited our area on Thursday morning. He was welcomed by sign wielding Peace Marchers upon his entry into the Community Center in Forks Township, PA outside of Easton. The turnout, for a weekday summer morning when many people were either working or off on vacation, was surprisingly good, with a few hundred […]

So the other day I pointed out that there was new legislation being introduced in North Carolina that would take away the ability of a City to build out its own broadband network in the absence of Cable or Telecomm action, a bill called The Local Government Fair Competition Act, which is anything but local […]

It’s a step in the right direction. Yesterday the House voted for transparency in exposing the role that registered lobbyists play in soliciting and collecting contributions for political campaigns by bundling campaign contribution checks that are each written to a max of $2300. This will expose the role that Lobbyists have played in influencing Congress […]

Though I’m very glad the vote on the House floor yesterday to set a pullout date for the War in Iraq, I have a lot of mixed feelings about the process.
First of all, there are Democrats who voted against the bill because it didn’t pull the troops out fast enough???? I want to bitchslap every […]