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Remember all that talk about The Patriot Act?  The fear of Big Brother?  How you were losing all your civil rights?  All of that would be changed by electing Barack Obama.  Well guess what, it has: The United States various governments have made 3,580 data requests from Google between July 1, 2009 and December 31, [...]

The Energy Information Administration, who touts themselves as “Official Energy Statistics from the US Government”, released a rather astounding conclusion.  While most people have been scare-mongering by saying Waxman-Markey will practically bankrupt most lower income people through much higher energy prices, EIA says this is not true at all: ACESA increases energy prices, but effects [...]

Hillary Clinton gave a 35:44 speech you can watch in its entirity at MSNBC: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Only thing about this speech is it was actually over an hour long. MSNBC cut off the last 34 minutes. That’s kind of understandable, it’s a very windy speech [...]

Senate Bills 773 and 778 are working their way through the Senate.  They address cybersecurity.  However, they are getting a lot of slack. Now, the heart of concern is in S. 778, which creates the Office of National Cybersecurity Advisor. There are plenty of excellent and not-so-excellent comments on these bills if you follow those [...]

The Senate passed the DC Voting Rights Act.  In order to get it passed, they gave an additional seat to Utah.  Senator Joe Liberman was quite thrilled, as was Eleanor Holmes Norton.  However, from a fiscally conervative standpoint, this is screwed up. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year [...]

This isn’t the first time this has happened, but it’s being discussed again ( via Kerry Picket at Newsbusters.org ): The House Energy and Commerce Committee is also looking at how it can put in place policies that would allow it greater oversight of the Internet. “Internet radio is becoming a big deal, and we’re seeing [...]

It’s really sad how bad people’s interpretation of history becomes over a short period of time.  Namely, this dialogue bugs me: In response to Obama wanting to spread the wealth, which is very well documented, Joe Biden had this to say: “I was on a television station the other day doing a satellite feed to [...]

This to me is one of the biggest legal travesties I’ve witnessed in a long time.  Jose Luis Nazario served his country in the marines.  He saw basically hand to hand combat.  He got shot at.  He shot at others.  He did all the things normally expected during live combat in a war where the [...]

I subscribe to most major news feeds. I do it because some media like to report some things, others will report other things. It’s just the nature of the beast of trying to stay somewhat informed. Because of this, I subscribe to MSNBC. They’re really good at getting the garbage news like what Paris Hilton [...]

Tim Robbins joined the throng of Hollywood type that feels there’s a conspiracy behind every corner. Yesterday Tim Robbins blasted President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq and challenged the American media to stand up and criticize their leader. The 47-year-old made his outspoken comments at a press conference promoting his stage adaptation of George [...]