Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

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 […]

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 […]

As Intrade offers odds on the Presidential Pardon of Scooter Libby, the questions surrounding the firing of DOJ Attorneys who were investigating Government Corruption and the last minute changes to the Patriot Act allowing those firings, are heating up as the investigation by Congress into those firings and the reasons behind them continue.
And whose name […]

I’d been feeling “funny” about Murtha ever since it was posited that he might become the majority leader…. and I didn’t know WHY I was feeling that way.
Until last night, when it hit me out of the blue: he reminds me all too much of “Bo” Gritz….

Donklephant’s Justin Gardner quotes E. J. Dionne/The Washington Post:
If a Democratic majority depends on moderate voters, it also depends on the victory of moderate candidates. In five of the seven races likely to decide control of the Senate, Democrats have nominated candidates who simply cannot be seen as conventional liberals.
Read the full post.
Thought provoking, and […]

It absolutely amazes me that in my working class town in PA I see Santorum signs all over the place. Don’t these people read the news? Santorum doesn’t even live in PA and he thinks he can represent us in the Senate? Not only that but he’s been tied to Delay, to Abramoff, and he’s […]

Larry Lessig, a Stanford Law Professor, made an incredibly cogent point re Market Forces and the Internet. The Telecomms and their shills at Hands Off the Internet keep pointing out that “market forces” should rule the way the internet works, and not regulation. Larry says that that’s exactly what happened with YouTube. Market forces grew […]

Drum roll please . . . . . and, according to the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the 20 MOST corrupt members of Congress (and 5 honorable mentions) are:
* Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT)
* Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN)
* Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
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When US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor pronounced in Detroit, “It was never the intent of the framers to give the president such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights.” in the decision condemning the AT&T wiretaps she made it crystal clear that this was […]