Partisan Free Politics

The definition of "must be seen to be believed."

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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill is making quite a few appearances in the MSM these days. Apparently, Congress is debating whether or not to grant telecommunications companies immunity for working with the National Security Agency (NSA) post 9-11 to spy on each and every American Citizen. AT&T is taking the brunt of the criticism, but Verizon is also know to have co-operated (providing the gov. with all of my phone calls). (Qwest is the only company known to have declined the NSA's request, and also maintains that the warrantless wiretapping began 7 months prior to 9-11.) Suspending the questions of whether or not the government should have co-opted the Telecom companies into violating the law, and ...

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The New York Times has a hilarious grid comparing the qualities of all the candidates here.  If you are a Gravel fan, I must warn you to stay far far away from that link.

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I had the opportunity to see the Mizero Children perform in D.C. today. They are a group of young Rwandan orphans who survived the 1994 genocide, and have somehow had their musical talents nurtured.  Which lead me to my question, what the hell happened to Africa? As I scan the news of Africa, it is either genocide in Darfur, civil war in Somalia, kidnappings in  Niger, coups in the Congo, Hyper-inflation-induced disaster in Zimbabwe, not to mention a South African government which refuses to believe in AIDs, or a litany of other issues. The problems of Africa are egregious violations of the most basic human values, but there are also more self interested reason that the U.S. should be more involved. ...

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If you were to ask Grover Norquist, Spencer Overton, David Keating, and Hendrik Hertzberg what values they shared in common, you might be shocked. Grover after all, is the man who is fighting for his right to “drown the federal government in a bathtub”. The left vs right divide does not get any more drastic. Nevertheless, when it comes to partisan free issues, these candidates found that there was a lot of common ground they could share. Transparency. They all emphatically agreed that some form of ReadTheBill ought to be passed This would mandate that all bills be made available online and to the public for a mandatory period ranging from 3 to 7 days, before Congress ...

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With all of the Buzz about third party candidates coming in to save the disenfranchised minority from Guiliani or Clinton, I thought that this may be an interesting time to say that I'll be at the Claim Democracy conference this weekend. This blog is being move to a new server, next week as part of a technological overhaul.

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It isn't easy to walk in another man's shoes, granted.  But of all the most senseless misguided professions to unionize, Hollywood writer's have to take the cake (or at least finish a close second to actors, and just ahead of directors.)  In this day in age, with the rise of blogging ushering in thousands of new could-be wordsmiths, it seems like the "professional" writers have little advantage in the market outside of their old-boy's club union (yes, the same "professionals" that gave you titles such as "Prison Break," flood the nightly airwaves with rehashed Monica Lewinsky jokes, and pen the endless forensic banter for all the 16 different CSI shows.  And yes, the same guys that single-handedly ruined the ...

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Here's a simple little exercise that could potentially lead into a discussion of numerous issues. Go to the Google. Use Google News and search for "taxpayers for common sense" and woodstock. Sort by date, but include duplicates. You should get about eight pages of links. Most use the same "neutral" headline. A couple spice it up a bit. And one established news organization shows their ever so fair and balanced approach to the news. Pretty awesome.

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Not that I didn't enjoy the new primetime expanded-cable summer series that was "The Endless Procession of Primary Debates," presented by MSNBC, FoxNews, YouTube, and just about any and every interest group you can think of, but the third quarter numbers are in and I'm expecting a big shake-up to really kick off the 4th quarter stretch run in a higher gear.

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