Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. If the public doesn't speak up now, our elected officials will cave to a multi-million ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen it yet, you gotta take a look @ this recent exchange between 2 radio talk show hosts "discussing" the New York Times story about the government delving into personal financial records & whether or not the government should be in the business of telling a newspaper what they can and cannot publish. You gotta love how the right- ( Read more... )

Immigration reform is all but guaranteed to be a major issue in the mid-term elections (since it's less intimidating to Republican incumbents than trying to defend the President's foreign policy). I've read the President's "plan," and it seems more notable for what it doesn't address than what it does---and for continuing the President's obvious ( Read more... )

I am, as you undoubtedly already know, the Independent Blogger of the Office of the Independent Blogger, independent in the same sense that Ken Starr was meaning "not very independent" indeed. I blog with a keyboard on loan from God, and here we go.

My latest post, and the first I'll direct you to, is Apples and Oranges, where the subject turns ( Read more... )

Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206Y.shtml

Last night at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, Stephen Colbert was the featured speaker. He took President Bush and the news media to task. In fact, he stood not five feet from the President and announced that the Emperor was sans clothes ( Read more... )

I am the Independent Blogger of the Office of the Independent Blogger, and I have a variety of posts to highlight from my blog.

First we talk about Dinosaurs, Awards and Politics, specifically relating to Ted Kennedy, Bipartisanship, unauthorized leaking and Richard Nixon. An excerpt? "Pat Buchanan is out calling any leak of classified information ( Read more... )

I want to start of by explaining who I am, so you will know where I'm coming from. I am a 43 year-old gay white male from near Orlando, Florida. I have been a Democrat now since I was able to register to vote--that makes 25 years now. I have been a dutifully partisan donkey all these years and have never cast a vote for anyone with an (R) after ( Read more... )

So the AFA is doing an online poll on illegal immigration and trying to be all serious about it, stating that they'll send the results "to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and President George Bush." Their solution to illegal immigration? "The first step in dealing with the illegal immigration problem is to ( Read more... )

i'm a teenager, unable to vote yet, but i'm most definetly a democrat. i could rant on and on about all kinds of crap i think that bush is doing wrong, but you've all heard it before, so i'll spare you. my main beef, however, is gay marriage. i don't see why it cant be free for everyone. but oh well, in the mind of a mindless conservative (or so i ( Read more... )