posted by Kyle Hampton | 1:14 PM |
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For any California readers (and any others interested), I began a new blog in defense of traditional marriage in the lead up to the November ballot. As a citizen of California I want to help persuade people to vote for the constitutional amendment to defend traditional marriage.
Please come by and visit
http://calmarriagedefense.blogspot.com/.
Labels: California, gay marriage
posted by AmericanTestament.com | 5:50 PM |
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I swear I'm not a shill for the Sunlight Foundation. I just keep bumping into their stuff online. And, so far, I like what I see.
The House Franking Committee (Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards)
wants to take away your representative's right to use the Internet to communicate with you.
See the interview video.
See the extensive "Red Book" mailing manual (72 pages...great for insomniacs).
While I agree with the principle of not allowing spend-o-crats access to taxpayer funds to spam us with unsolicited screeds about what they will do/have done if/after elected, what I object to is a rule that would essentially put a gag order on a politician using his/her cell phone to use Twitter. Half the people talking about implementing this rule don't have a clue about the Web as it stands...how can we trust them to
regulate it?
Jon Henke at The Next Right
has some thoughts on that as well. Yes, Jon, for members of Congress,
every year is like it's 1999 (or earlier).
My favorite quote from the video should be carved into the steps of the House.
"Listen, Mike (Capuano), you have about as much chance of regulating the Internet as King Canute did at stopping the tide."
Capuano was quoted in the Washington Post earlier this year as saying:
"I make no bones about it. I don't know anything about this stuff," Capuano said with a shrug. "To me, the Web is a necessary evil," he admitted, "like cellphones."
This gives me a whole new perspective on why my emails to my representatives go unanswered, or when they are, amount to a brush-off form letter containing no real information.
Go ahead.
Tell 'em how you really feel.
Labels: committees, mail, representatives, Taxes, web 2.0
posted by AmericanTestament.com | 10:08 AM |
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Looking for a great source for quoting McCain, Obama, and other political figures to set the record straight? Look no further than the
Library Of Unified Information Sources (LOUIS), a project of the Sunlight Foundation. This database gathers in one place all text of the following "documents":
Although it's not yet finished, it does contain a surprising amount of info for a beta. I was disappointed, however, that a search for "UFO" didn't turn up the answers I had hoped for. :)
Labels: Congress, federal, LOUIS, president, search
posted by AmericanTestament.com | 9:06 AM |
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Bulldog Reporter announces that
Fox News is pulling head of CNN again after the latter had a brief respite from a six year slump in the popularity of its news content. MSNBC continues at a sad and distant third.
Now, I don't know that Fox news coverage, integrity, blah, blah, blah is all that much
better in quality that CNN's. But it certainly is
different in terms of its bias. All news is biased because all news is reported by humans and all humans are biased.
Furthermore, we tend to associate with those who most share our interests and worldviews, so it follows that a network that is built of reporters who associate on conservative worldviews is going to be conservative. Likewise for a liberal network.
And that's okay. That's what the First Amendment was meant to protect. On the dark side of things, with Obama a serious contender for the presidency and a Democrat-controlled congress, the
Fairness Doctrine looms on the horizon. For a peek at how scary the Left is becoming in their fanatical thinking about reinstating this outdated and poorly conceived idea,
see here.
Labels: censorship, cnn, democrats, Fairness Doctrine, Fox News, Liberals, Obama, ratings
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