Posts Tagged ‘internet’
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 [...]
Tags: 773, 778, act, big-brother, Bill Nelson, cybersecurity, Evan-Bayh, internet, John-Rockefeller, obama, olympia snowe, senate bill, telecommunications
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February 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: big-brother, censorship, eric holder, fairness doctrine, henry-waxman, hillary clinton, internet, obama, oversight, supreme court
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Fed Policy, Idiot of the day, Legislative Process, The Legal Process, The Media | 1 Comment »
A rather bizarre event unfolded Friday. Basically, the Republicans tried to force a vote on drilling for more oil. The Democrats stifled it. Then, the Democrats decided that accomplishing nothing to help the United States deal with soaring gas prices was better than debating, or even worse yet, voting to allow more drilling. It didn’t [...]
Tags: bank, barack obama, business service, computers, contribution, donation, Education, electric, gas, health, health product, hospitals, insurance, internet, invest, john-mccain, law firm, lawyer, leadership pac, lobbyist, movies, music, nancy pelosi, nursing home, oil, partisan, petroleum, pharmaceutical, real estate, retired, securities, tv, utilities
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I’m not much into mass email campaigns, but this one made sense to me and bears repeating. So, rather than sending a bunch of people not terribly interested in it, I’ll just stick it up here. Here they go again — tax-happy Democrats are running out of ways to tax you — so they are [...]
Tags: innouye, internet, internet-tax-freedom-act, Legislative Process, mcconnell, mitch, National Politics, tax
Posted in Legislative Process, National Politics | 2 Comments »
Study finds Web isn’t teeming with sex ANALYSIS SHOWS ABOUT 1 PERCENT OF ALL PAGES HAVE ADULT CONTENT That’s the conclusion the San Jose Mercury News comes to regarding an argument the ACLU presented in federal court last week regarding their challenge to the Child Online Protection Act President Clinton signed into law in 1998. [...]
Tags: aclu, child-online-protection-act, internet, Opinions, porn, san-jose-mercury-news
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A lot of people are reading things into this week’s elections. Some people claimed these elections are nothing but a national referendum on Bush and/or the Republicans. As such, I posted my “anticipated results” from the elections a few days ago. I’m still sticking with those “predictions” post-election. Now, here’s what happens when “national” expectations [...]
Tags: bias, bush, candidates, change, claire, conservative, conservatives, day, debate, democrat, democrats, Ethics, experience, Government, internet, iraq, it, legislation, mccaskill, Media, negative, pelosi, People, policy, Politics, president, race, republican, republicans, Senate, veto, voter
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In a ruling that could open the United States to offshore Internet gambling, a World Trade Organization panel Wednesday said Washington should drop prohibitions on Americans placing bets in online casinos. In its final 287-page report, the WTO panel confirmed the preliminary ruling it issued in March in a dispute pitting the United States against [...]
Tags: ban, caribbean, citizen, countrywide, gambling, internet, it, legal, mine, mines, mining, People, socialism, town, washington, wto
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