Internet kill switch bill gets a makeover
Internet kill switch bill gets a makeover. Just one more shining example of how our representatives don’t know jack about how the web works or why it’s important. (via @matro)
Tag Archives: Congress
Dave Winer: Republicans were going to have death commissions
Republicans were going to have death commissions. Heres how they work. You beg for health care. We say no. Brilliant! This is the kind of stuff Democrats should have been coming out with months ago to prepare for the onslaught of Limbaugh and others.
Idiot Nation, Idiot Press
The Daily Kos goes after Politico for the way that it handled Palin’s claim over the health care plan: Seriously? Seriously? Yes, seriously. It falls to Politico to take a story about a national figure making up wholesale a crooked and ridiculous story about how Democratic… Continue reading →
Life expectancy and the health care debate
Matthew Yglesias today rebuts this statistic about life expectancy in the Netherlands versus the United States: At birth, someone living in the Netherlands can expect to live 2.35 years longer than someone born in the US, but at age 65, the difference is reversed, and… Continue reading →
Politics and rationality
Matthew Yglesias posted this the other day concerning the idea that Obama’s tax proposals were simply too rational. The reason for this in Yglesias’s eyes is that Congress if full of “Senate moderates” who he describes as “someone who takes his party’s proposals, objects to… Continue reading →
Alan Keyes and Obama
This is just weird, and I’m not even entirely sure what to say. Alan Keyes, a conservative who lost to Obama in the 2004 Illinois Senate race, describes Obama as a man who is a communist, usurper, and as one who advocates infanticide. The L.A.… Continue reading →
A-Rod and Steroids
Doug Glanville has a post on the New York Times that is the best summation of the problem with focusing all of the blame and attention upon Alex Rodriguez for his recent admission of steroid use during his time with the Texas Rangers. In the… Continue reading →
Aristotle on Democrats
I’m reading Aristotle’s “The Politics” right now for a class on Democratic Theory. In Book 3, Chapter 4 he writes something that I found to be quite applicable to current American politics and specifically to the Democratic reaction to Barack Obama’s victory in the elections.… Continue reading →
Protecting Wild Utah
The New Republic’s Energy and Environment blog has an article today about Ken Salazar, the new interior secretary, and his effort to repeal one of the last-minute Bush administration laws. In the closing months of the Bush administration they passed a bill that would open… Continue reading →
Obama’s fired up
It’s good to see Obama pushing the Democrats again to think in a new way and to push for something other than the same solutions. At a Democratic caucus retreat he speaks of how “the scale and the scope of [his stimulus plan] is right.”… Continue reading →