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Journalistic Integrity (like Government Intelligence)

This morning’s publishing of unverified PR claims by Gateway Pundit demonstrates a profound lack of journalistic integrity in today’s media, which I have found exists all across the political spectrum, but particularly so on the far right. Is that because media consolidation has thinned investigative news resources to FAR below their traditional level? [...] [...]

Media sharks want to eat the web

Why Net Neutrality matters I won’t say much about net neutrality, except that it’s very important that the same corporate behemoths that spoiled cable TV’s potential a few decades ago aren’t allowed to do the same with the World Wide Web. Oh, and believe me, they’d like nothing better. [...]

Some wealth-redistribution lies

Once again, I think it’s prudent to point out that the concern I have about US politics is not one of a difference of opinion, but one related to untruth. It’s not that I dismiss rational, logical Conservative political opinion out of hand, but that the Right in the US seems to start so [...] [...]

What I Believe

Am I a liberal? Am I a libertarian? Am I a Christian or an Atheist? (If I’m a Christian, am I a Charismatic Fundamentalist or some other stripe?) I think it’s high time that I clarify a few things. I’m not blindly anti-government, but I do believe that the US Government is particularly bad at [...] [...]

Tea Party Literature

One of my favorite things to do is review crappy new political books. Today, we’re going to take on The Tea Party Patriot: A Tale of American Tyranny. In the book, a novel “of, by and for the Tea Party,” the potential reader is encouraged to “order it while it’s still legal”… [...] [...]