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The Death of the Internet – For Real

By on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 | 20 Comments

I’ve written a couple of times about how the “Death of the Internet” seemed to be just over the horizon. These were technical issues, and they were overcome by technical fixes. But congress is about to make changes that will not only usher in an age of censorship on the US part of the Internet, but [...]

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Giving the Post Office CPR

By on Thursday, September 1st, 2011 | 3 Comments

The US Postal Service is in trouble, and we are facing a bailout that will make the auto makers’ bailout seem small by comparison. The post office lost $8.5 billion last year. This year they probably will only ( ! ) lose $8.3 billion. And they’re running out of money. It would be bad enough [...]

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A Debt Deal?

By on Sunday, July 31st, 2011 | No Comments

Around 8:30 Eastern tonight Harry Reid took to the floor of the Senate to announce that we had a framework for a deal on the spending limit, followed by Mitch McConnell. A few minutes later President Obama made a brief statement, saying that the leaders of both parties in both houses had agreed on the [...]

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Republican Lawmakers on Twitter

By on Saturday, July 30th, 2011 | No Comments

If you were watching Twitter on Friday you saw President Obama try to muster pressure on Republican legislators to compromise their principles. @BarackObama tweeted for hours, urging people to contact their legislators, one state at a time, losing tens of thousands of followers in the process. At the end of it, a tweet pointed to [...]

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Balance the Budget: Now is the Time

By on Friday, July 29th, 2011 | No Comments

A new video from Representative Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA,) Co-Chair of the Republican New Media Caucus. Since President Obama has been claiming the mantle of Reagan, it’s particularly appropriate to look at what President Reagan actually said when he spoke to the nation about a Balanced Budget Amendment.

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