The Strange Death of Liberal America

Net Neutrality is the Sleeper Issue of Our Times

Published on 2010-08-20 22:34:29

I was proud of America last night.  A lot of people have begun to wonder if civility in politics is an endangered species, but the people who showed up for the net neutrality meeting in Minneapolis proved you could have a public meeting about a critical topic and not have it degenerate into shouting, name-calling [...]

Net Neutrality and the Most Important Hearing You Never Heard Of

Published on 2010-08-18 19:07:47

Perhaps the most important meeting you never heard of will take place tonight in Minneapolis. It is an FCC hearing about the future of the Internet. Given that the Net is now the main information pipe for all of us, how that pipe is to be regulated, what we will pay to use it and [...]

The Corporate Money Factor in the November Midterm Election

Published on 2010-07-12 12:24:23

With the midterm elections looming closer, those of you who live in areas with especially competitive races as I do are starting to see the first skirmishes in what will become an all-out ad war by September. This will be the nastiest, all-out, highest-spending off-year election in American history. The GOP is banking (literally) that [...]

For the Fourth of July: Where Are the Jeffersonians?

Published on 2010-07-02 17:05:49

This weekend marks one of those strange intersections that periodically occur in America where the juxtaposition of events triggers some deeper reflection.  So we mark yet another Fourth of July at the end of a week that saw Congress move closer to passing a financial regulatory bill while Elena Kagan seems to be moving towards [...]