From the Competitive Enterprise Institute: The Federal Communications Commission is planning new rules to dictate how Internet providers can manage the information that flows over their private networks. These rules would foreclose the evolution of innovative, pro-competitive network and business models and, worse, would inject politics into the governance of Internet networks, the Competitive Enterprise Institute warned in a public comment submitted to the FCC today. “America’s challenge is not

The Denver Post’s David Harsanyi forgives Mark McGwire so you don’t have to: Tucked in among the compelling news items focusing on Tigers Woods’ prodigious appetite for female companionship was a nugget relaying how the greatest golfer of all time had visited a Canadian doctor now under investigation for providing performance-enhancing drugs to his clients. Tiger wasn’t alone. Noted Olympic swimmer Dara Torres and other prominent athletes also felt an

“Wash. lawmaker wants to banish negative language,” AP: Decades ago, poor children became known as “disadvantaged” to soften the stigma of poverty. Then they were “at-risk.” Now, a Washington lawmaker wants to replace those euphemisms with a new one, “at hope.” Democratic State Sen. Rosa Franklin says negative labels are hurting kids’ chances for success and she’s not a bit concerned that people will be confused by her proposed rewrite

Interesting bit on truth and the media, from the WSJ: There was a time in the former Eastern Bloc when what you read in newspapers was the exact opposite of the truth. Ironically, the Soviet newspaper that was bursting with lies was called Pravda, or The Truth. There was another one, Izvestia, which means The News. The two were so committed to the truth that Russians would say “V Pravde

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“So. Would it worry you at all to know that in voting for Scott Brown, you’d likely be supporting the lynchings of blacks and gays — and maybe even helping to put Jews and Papists into ovens…? And don’t even get us started on what might happen to kittens, which gives a whole new meaning to ‘gettin’ some pussy‘…”*

[originally posted May, 2004] Dr. John Watson writes: […] “The dapper client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down at the International Affairs section, with his head thrust forward and the paper flattened against his knee, I took a good look at the man and endeavored, after the

The chance of catching swine flu? Vanishingly small. Still, though. Why risk it?

…is not like the other. Discuss!

Courtesy of NPR, and financed in part by your tax dollars! It’s a charming little animation in which ordinary citizens of all political affiliations are marginalized by a government organ as extremists, while the “progressive” left (who, I must say, seems to be getting the better end of the whole spending- of-our-tax-dollars deal) congratulates itself on resisting the urge simply to strafe the lot of these reactionary hicks with a