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• • 13 Sep 09
  • 12:07 pm

  It's ironic that Megan Tady should grouse about "astroturf" groups, when in fact she works for one herself. "Free Press," a DC lobbying group, carries water for Google -- a large, monopolistic corporation -- and is lobbying to have the Internet regulated in ways that would benefit Google and prevent new companies from being able to compete with it. The so-called "Internet Freedom Preservation Act" would do just this. In particular, the bill would prevent a newcomer from buying services that would accelerate delivery of its content to consumers. It thus would prevent newcomers from being able to deliver their data …

  Posted to Will 'Astroturf' Groups Block Net Neutrality Reform?

• • 08 Aug 09
  • 6:13 pm

  The increase in population in the US is a direct result of Immigration. The US would have a significantly lower population if were not for Immigration legal and illegal. If anything white Americans need to have more children just to compensate for the third world invasion we have witnessed. The same goes for Europe.

  Posted to The Poop on Population

• • 10 Aug 09
  • 2:33 pm

  Charter schools are great for disadvantaged students. The teachers unions are already fucking up too much of the educational system. Can they please not rape this too?

  Posted to We’re Public ... No, We’re Private

• • 10 Apr 09
  • 3:20 pm

  If you want to build transit that people will prefer to take over cars, build Personal Rapid Transit and Group Rapid Transit.

  Posted to The Future of Transit

• • 07 Sep 08
  • 5:04 pm

  Some "war". If you're actually trying to persuade anybody, you might be a tiny bit more circumspect with that word when you're talking about a hero who knows, as you never will, what war is. And some "sexist". So he didn't sign on to every little jot and tittle of the far left social agenda. Good. And like most rational and decent people of both sexes, he's pro-life. That hardly makes him a sexist. Pretty small beer, sweetie. P.S. A little fact-checking wouldn't hurt you. Trader Jon's, a world-famous institution, was not a strip club or anything of the sort. And …

  Posted to McSexist