In These Times

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• • 16 Jun 06
  • 12:30 pm

  THANKS MICHELLE! It is so refreshing to read an article in "In These Times" so well informed, with information AND a perspective, that isn't such common knowledge that it is like reading one's own diary. You obviously work hard and think hard. THANKS

  Posted to Saving Secular Society

• • 02 Apr 06
  • 5:31 pm

  Correction, many think they ARE the law, no distinction. If there is a difference, they don't want to know what it is. Legislatures are bending over backwards to give law enforcement anything they want, in an anti-crime, anti-terror, pro- crackdown fervor and won't wake up for years to what they are doing to their own rights, their kids rights, the rights of ALL.

  Posted to The Battle for Fred Hampton Way

• • 02 Apr 06
  • 6:03 pm

  the 1996 act was not a success. The baby bells fought competition, interconnection agreements, tooth and nail and have tried to carve out the internet. How many residential customers have much choice for local phone service, for example. Until recently, when cable started to offer it, most had none, and now have maybe just the cable company as an alternative. Even more recently, internet phone has emerged, but as a primary phone service, can be problematic. Cable necessitates bundling with cable TV. How many realize that the 1996 bill was supposed to create competition and healthy choices for local phone service, …

  Posted to Untangling the Next Telecom Act

• • 17 Dec 05
  • 12:34 pm

  Nice little article. I enjoyed it. Short and narrow in focus, but captured the essence of the Yale dilemma. Alito is smart, smarter than Scalia. His relationship with Yale is square, not Clarence's. When I say Alito is smart, my smart friends answer, but he has no heart and they are right.

  Posted to The Three Alitos

• • 13 Dec 05
  • 8:31 pm

  Frankly, I don't know how you find the energy to live Mr. V. I am 41 and can barely take it anymore. I'm drowning. What's your secret? --- P&P, Marge

  Posted to Your Guess Is as Good as Mine