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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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A Couple of Rude People Aren’t the Whole Hall

By on Friday, September 23rd, 2011 | 2 Comments

If you didn’t hear about it last night you’re going to wake to news stories about Republicans at the debate in Florida booing a gay American service man last night. It’s likely that this will be represented as the sentiment of the whole hall, and used by assorted talking heads to smear Republicans, the Tea [...]

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9/11, Ten Years Later

By on Sunday, September 11th, 2011 | No Comments

People more eloquent than I am will be writing of all of the details of the attack on America that happened on September 11, 2001, often remembered by the short form “9/11.” The media will be full of tributes and time lines, and that is as it should be. Others will look at how our [...]

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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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Presidential Inheritance

By on Sunday, August 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Barack Obama discusses what he inherited with some of his predecessors shortly after Standard and Poor’s downgraded the US debt.  

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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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RNC Chairman Priebus Talks to the New Media

By on Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus held a call for new media people on Tuesday afternoon, June 7.  To those accustomed to long delays while waiting for the President to speak, the beginning was refreshing. The call started at 5 pm Eastern, and we were being welcomed by a representative of the RNC at 5:02. There [...]

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Camping Out With False Prophets

By on Saturday, May 21st, 2011 | Comments Off

By the time you read this the world won’t have ended. Harold Camping, president of Family Radio International, has performed a number of calculations based on his understanding of Bible history. He has deduced that May 21, 2011 is 7,000 years since Noah’s flood, and that the Bible says this is judgement day. This is [...]

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