Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

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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 […]

What’s wrong with this picture? A local farmer in Minnesota wrote a great opinion piece in the NYTimes about his issues renting acreage to expand his high-demand locally grown organic fruits and veggies business. Problem is that the acreage he wished to rent had been dedicated to “corn base”. When farm acreage has been dedicated […]

Nwitimes.com is reporting that in Indiana, after passage of one of the ubiquitous ‘Cable Choice and Competition‘ state level bills written by the phone companies, and pushed into passage by the phone companies deploying a swarm of lobbyists and handing out lots of chunky campaign contributions at the local level, the only neighborhoods that have […]

Geez, the Peak Oil groups have been pointing this out for a long time. It’s about time that the NYT got with the program, and reported this study about Biofuels being a Greenhouse Threat.
Too bad they didn’t catch this already reported story when it was originally reported, and in time to stop all the harebrained […]

The Washington Post has reported that Bush has ordered expanded Internet network monitoring to stop the stealing of US Government Data by . . . whoever. Of course, we all know where this is going. This is going to be a blanket abrogation of Internet Privacy, along with all the other Rights the Bushies […]

Now he wants “us” to invade Iran. I’m sure that will be just as successful as our invasion of Iraq, and by the time we’re done, we’ll have so little armed forces left we’ll be ripe for takeover ourselves.
The Rhetoric is the same. And Big Media should be ashamed of themselves for getting sucked through […]

I swear I’m surprised the world hasn’t spun off its axis this week due to the incredible amount of unbalanced and utterly amazing spin coming out of Washington, the media, and the net on this MoveOn Ad thing.
And after reading all the different commentaries, blogposts, and such that came out of this, I’m amazed at […]

The Washington Post is reporting that our new Security/Wiretapping Law, which, because of the fiber optic nature of landlines, requires special switches for the taps to be placed, also allows others beside the government to use these special switches to intercept conversations. The article states, “Such threats are not theoretical. For almost a year beginning […]

For those of you in the Easton, PA area, Senator Arlen Specter will be having a Town Meeting at the Forks Township Community Center, 500 Zucksville Rd, #2 Gym, Easton PA, on Thursday August 9th, at 10:30 AM. Since this isn’t a Federal Government Building, we would think that so-called “subversive” teeshirts and buttons won’t […]