’s not quite signing statements, where President George W. Bush used legal means to “interpret” laws, allowing him to avoid Congressional directives, but the White House is now planning to implement as much new policy “as it can” by administrative order “after concluding that President Bush cannot do much business with the Democratic leadership.”
Sphere: Related ContentThe head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could bring disaster.
“We have information that there has been maybe some studies about possible weaponization,” said Mohamed ElBaradei, who leads the International Atomic Energy Agency. “That’s why we have said that we cannot give Iran a pass right now, because there is still a lot of question marks.”
“But have
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While a class action lawsuit is definitely one way to get Comcast to behave, another perhaps more productive way to do so is to have politicians step in and regulate.
On Tuesday, I discussed the issue of Comcast’s anti-BitTorrent “network management” with Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., who is a strong supporter of consumer rights and has led the battle to undo the damage caused by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA.
Sphere: Related ContentHistory is written by the powerful and the articulate. Chris Rose, a columnist for New Orleans’ Times-Picayune, has painted a powerful and articulate historical landscape in his book 1 Dead in Attic.
Sphere: Related ContentYou should not be president if you do not acknowledge the divisions that threaten our economy, our society and our soul.
–John Edwards
Edwards has done the most by far to call attention to growing social and economic inequality in the United States
Online social networks are usually all about bringing together people who like the same things.
The founder of a new anti-social networking site, however, is finding that shared hates can be an equally effective bonding tool.
Sphere: Related ContentThe New York Times editorial board writes: “Every now and then, we are tempted to double-check that the Democrats actually won control of Congress last year. It was particularly hard to tell this week. Democratic leaders were cowed, once again, by propaganda from the White House and failed, once again, to modernize the law on electronic spying in a way that permits robust intelligence gathering on terrorists without undermining the Constitution.”
Sphere: Related ContentSo it’s happened again: Ann Coulter is controversial. Ann Coulter is important. We all need to take a stand for or against Ann Coulter’s right to express her views, no matter how repugnant they may be.
But what if we ignored her latest publicity ploy? What if we didn’t play Ann Coulter’s game - again?
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Those who don’t believe in God are finding strength in numbers in public and political arenas.
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