Month: May 2014
It’s All Fray All the Time Nowadays
There is no ‘above the fray’ in politics anymore. There is only ‘the fray.’
— GOP strategist Mark McKinnon, quoted by the Washington Post, when asked whether Hillary Clinton is still a stateswoman operating above the political fray.
There’s a Campaign to Convince Hillary to Campaign
We think what we’re seeing is an elaborate campaign, directed by Hillary, to lock down the 2016 nomination and solidify her image as a leader. But in reality, this isn’t emanating from Clinton, and it has nothing to do with voters. What we’re really looking at is a campaign orchestrated by nervous Democrats and aimed at persuading Clinton herself.
— Matt Bai, writing for Yahoo News.
Franken: This is the Free Speech Issue of Our Time
It’s time to stop tuning out the issue of net neutrality, which very simply means that everything you access online has an equal chance of — and speed in — reaching you. The very fact that corporations like Comcast want to change the rules of access to the wonders of the internet is enough to show that there is much at stake. It boils down to huge profit for them, and the loss of the internet as we know it for us.
We already pay the Comcasts of the world for internet access. So do those who provide content online (like Pensito Review). So they are already being paid twice but at least once their basic price is met, there is equal access by you, the reader, to sites, and by sites to you. If they get the changes they want, sites like PR will be cast into the slow lane, while Netflix and whoever pays the “premium” (i.e., extortion money) is catapulted into the fast lane.
Everyone has a favorite little site they like, even if they do spend a lot of time on Buzzfeed or HuffPo or Facebook. If you don’t want Comcast and other providers deciding what your online experience will be like, and how difficult it will be to get to your favorite little site, support net neutrality at NoSlowLane.com.
How to Talk About Taxes Without Saying the ‘T’ Word
Well here’s the reality: If you go into a business, and I keep coming back to my background, it’s how I know how to relate is to refer back to it — I was never able to turn around a company just by cutting spending. You had to figure out a way to get revenue growing. And what I just said, there are five people in the U.S. Senate who understand what I just said. You know revenue is not something they think about.
— Georgia U.S. Senate candidate David Perdue (R), in an interview with the Macon Telegraph.
Whither this Weatherman?
He always said he was a conservatist,
And he’s surely an American exceptionalist.
Who knew he had the potential,
Let alone the credentials —
But apparently Marco Rubio is a climate scientist!
