Lawrence Lessig: Disband the FCC

Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig is a student of history.  He has documented that, despite their proclaimed goals, most government regulatory agencies end up promoting "excessive government favors and excessive private monopoly power." In light of this history,) Lessig recommends that we disband the FCC and that we replace it…

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Suspicious death of IT expert who was apparently ready to tell the whole truth in 2004 Ohio vote fraud case.

From Democracy Now: A top Republican internet strategist who was set to testify in a case alleging election tampering in 2004 in Ohio has died in a plane crash. Mike Connell was the chief IT consultant to Karl Rove and created websites for the Bush and McCain electoral campaigns. He…

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R.I.P. IDEA

It would seem according to this report that University and College presence of Intelligent Design is on its deathbed.  Perhaps this is premature, but if true it would signal that the basic inability of ID to support its own conclusions are now becoming evident to all but the thoroughly committed.…

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