Maine Republicans Adopt Tea Party Platform

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Even ignoring the considerable judgment calls enforcing "fair" competition would require, here's the problem: When FCC staffers claim they're not going to regulate the Internet, what they actually mean is that, at least with regard to Net neutrality rules, they're not going to regulate the content layer. But it's tough to say you're not regulating the Internet when you are, in fact, imposing…

The money quote:

1) Credit Ratings Agencies. While the crisis does not have a single cause, the behavior of the credit rating agencies is a defining characteristic. It is impossible to imagine the current crisis without the activities of the NRSROs. And, it is difficult to imagine the behavior of the NRSROs without the regulations that permitted, protected, and encouraged their activities. … Rather the evidence is most consistent with the view that…

The day after $1,000bn was briefly wiped off the market value of US equities, traders were still trying to work out what caused share prices to plunge and then rebound so dramatically in a matter of minutes.

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President Barack Obama has not ruled out sabotage in the near-panic on Wall Street Thursday afternoon.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/96713-white-house-doesnt-rule-out-sabotage-in-market-fluctuation?page=1#comments

We’ll know in due course, now that an investigation is underway, why the equity markets in the US went into complete freefall for about twenty minutes, with the Dow dropping 998 points. Per Bloomberg:

Subject: Kerpen on FOX Forum: The FCC Goes for the Nuclear Option

From: pkerpen@afp-mail.com

Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 08:54:04 +0000

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The FCC has done it. The nuclear option. To circumvent Congress and the courts they are reclassifying the Internet as a telephone system to regulate it as a public utility. It's an astonishing power grab, and we need to stop it. For more information, I…

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We Are NashvilleBy Patten FuquaPublished: May 4, 2010

The core of Democratic Party political strategy is falling apart. As reported by The New York Times, Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races:

Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32…

Brian Maloney gives us this entry for the Someone Left the Irony On Department, in which Contessa Brewer tells Stephanie Miller that she’s really unhappy that she couldn’t use the Times Square bombing attempt to prove Tea Party “bigotry.” Never mind that this clip shows the bigotry of Brewer in relation to conservatives — that all of the opponents of Barack Obama and the Democrats…

Ironically, one of the hottest new books for conservatives is far left-winger Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, which was written way back in 1971.



After reading the book, my personal opinion is that Alinsky was a brilliant yet cynical, habitually dishonest, utterly amoral human being with a deep understanding of…