Donklephant has a post regarding The Death of Habeas Corpus, which puts into perspective what just happened when the President signed this bill into law.
Frankly, it’s a very scary precedent. In my life, I’ve not before felt quite so uncertain about the legal process. And I’m quite quite law abiding. I don’t […]
Verizon isn’t the only company trying to divide and conquer on the issues of Net Neutrality, squashing Cable Competitors, and bypassing the local Franchise Process by pushing for state level franchising. Verizon lost the fight so far in PA, let’s hope that AT&T loses a similar fight in Michigan.
Could it be that the grassroots movement […]
It looks like there’s a good possibility that AT&T should be added to the list of Iraq War Profiteers along with Halliburton, Titan, CACI, and Blackwater.
AT&T has close to a monopoly on phone service in and out of Iraq and is gouging our GIs there. According to an article in the Prepaid Press, the American […]
All that corn that Big Agribusiness is growing so they can rape the American Taxpayer via Nixon’s farm subsidies, could actually be put to good use if our current administration wasn’t kissing Big Oil’s ass. Even Africa is getting it right with Pumpkin Power! Several Telecomm network groups in Africa, including Eriksson and MTN, […]
According to this article in the Seattle Times, there’s a very real possibility Foley will be able to use Campaign Money to pay his legal defense fees and PR bills. The article goes on to state:
Whether Foley will be able to spend his contributors’ donations on defense lawyers and publicists will depend on how the […]
In John Harris’ article, New Media A Weapon in New World Of Politics he analyses the effect that “new media” in the form of blogs, websites, radio talk shows and other fast forms of communication to the masses.
He documents how Clinton talked about New Media in the wake of the recent ruckus on Fox News–
he […]
According to a Reuters Story, Google’s Eric Schmidt is fascinated with the potential use of Google to see if politicians are telling the truth.
In light of the Who Knew What When that’s going on now in the wake of the Foley scandal, this could be quite useful in future. Schmidt predicted, “that “truth predictor” software […]
Caroline just posted a comment on the Political Vine Site which links to a story by Andrew Bolton on The Hill. The Bolton article details exactly how the Foley scandal was broken to the press, and debunks much of the SPIN Republicans are trying to put into play to defuse this Republican Debacle.
Bolton states that […]
American War Dead, The Atomic Bomb, and Politics
An odd confluence of events has me thinking about the War in Iraq. So what’s the death toll now? 2,500 or 2,600? Oops 2,911 (Total 2,911 US Dead (2,695 in Iraq, 215 in Afghanistan and 1 at Guantanamo of non-hostile cause) as of September 25th. So how […]
Not only is the Sunlight Foundation a great site for some heavy reading into who’s bringing home YOUR bacon in the form of federal earmarks, but it’s also got some of the most incredible tools (with more to come) for the citizen journalist who wishes to expose the underbelly of pork in political places.
Currently the […]
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