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The Death of the Internet – For Real

By on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 | 21 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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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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No, Mister President, After You- I Insist!

By on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 | No Comments

The current US budget troubles have led to an impasse that is likely to lead us to another round of brinkmanship like what we saw with the fiscal year 2011 budget. Because it was a last minute compromise, some things slipped through the cracks from lack of time. Other things were dropped because there was no way [...]

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NRSC Backs Down on O’Donnell

By on Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 | No Comments

As I noted in an update to last night’s post, the NRSC was making noises about not supporting Christine O’Donnell despite her win. They seem to have changed their minds. The chairman of the NRSC, Senator John Cornyn, issued a statement today that said in part: “I reached out to Christine this morning, and as [...]

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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee – Beyond Parody

By on Friday, July 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Sometimes you see a tweet on Twitter or a blog post with a link, but you can’t look at it right now. So you open a tab and leave it sitting till you have time to work your way through the backlog, or till you have so many browser tabs open that you declare Web [...]

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