Not only has McCain come out against Net Neutrality and even come close to saying that ISPs should be able to control Internet CONTENT (geez, just what we need, more Bud TV and the Home Shopping Network) but he’s also said that in Iraq we need to field MORE troops, not less, and certainly not […]
The Bill that was passed by the Senate that was supposed to protect the health, wellbeing, and wallets of the American People from a wealth of problems with prescription drugs was so weakened in committee before its passage that it ended up doing MUCH MORE HARM than it did good. And the Senators who overturned […]
The NY Times article about how Olberg was vindicated in blowing the whistle on the Student Aid Scandal, depicts an end run around the regulations and purposeful negation of oversight which cost taxpayers at the very least hundreds of millions of dollars, and benefitted companies such as Nelnet, one of the biggest contributors to the […]
What is the spectrum auction, and why doesn’t Big Media talk about it? Because the Big Media Cabal stands to gain a whole bunch of moneymaking spectrum (and keep it out of the hands of potential competition) if they don’t let the public know what’s at stake.
Because the FCC has mandated the switch to HDTV, […]
There’s a very disturbing op ed piece in the NY Times about a woman who was wrongly convicted by the DOJ in Wisconsin.
Members of Congress should ask whether it was by coincidence or design that Steven Biskupic, the United States attorney in Milwaukee, turned a flimsy case into a campaign issue that nearly helped Republicans […]
Over the last couple days, after attending the Step It Up Rally for Climate Change in Bethlehem PA on Saturday, I’ve really been doing a lot of thinking about the damage that’s been done by the Bush Administration. I started thinking about how he’s gutted the Environmental Protection Agency and its regulations, and how the […]
Kurt Vonnegut, the anti-war novelist whose dark comedy/tragedy, Slaughterhouse Five, came to be the iconic novel of the Vietnam War Protest Movement, is dead at the age of 84. His unfailing moral compass will be sorely missed, and one only hopes that in true Vonnegutian fashion, he’s reincarnated into one of Geoge Bush’s pets, and […]
There is a very thought provoking article about responding to Climate Change at the Libertarian site, Reason Magazine. It really lays out a very cogent and clear path of, believe it or not, regulation (yes, government intervention. Imagine that!) that would, if carefully crafted, steadily reduce sources of carbon emission:
This argues not for passivity, and […]
An article in Technology Review that critiques the technology being used by the U.S. government for airline passenger screening is so bad that not only does it confuse Osama Bin Laden with Johnny Rotten, it also puts the names “George Bush” and “Jesus Christ” on watch lists. Why? The basis of the technology is “Soundex”, […]
Allyn Gibson posts some interesting thoughts regarding Pete Stark’s “coming out of the closet” with his “nontheism”.
I’ve been an atheist (or nontheist - the latest term for “I don’t believe in God”) ever since I can remember - I don’t now nor have I ever had any need for that sort of dogma in my […]
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-Plato
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