sarcasticguru

this article spells out the players that want and those that do have some influence over the future of Al's internet.

Congress thinks it knows the optimal fraction of the television market that can be owned by one media firm. Reed Hundt thinks he knows better than consumers themselves how much they want to pay for fiber to their homes. Michael Copps thinks he knows how to manage phone lines and how to allocate spectrum.
Unlike his detractors, Michael Powell thinks he knows less than the market. And in my view, that makes Michael Powell a man of rare and precious wisdom.

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Now that we are committed to rapid elections in Iraq -- without constitutional safeguards -- what will we do if the country goes Islamist and wants to pattern the regime after Iran? Will we annul the elections?

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i like what i found here: "And in the midst of this global struggle, when both parties should have united, disagreeing at times about methods and priorities, but never about the steadfast will of the American people to see the war through to a successful conclusion, we find that the candidates of the party out of power are attacking the president for fighting the war at all, and are calling the war itself a 'failure' even though there is no rational measure by which it can be said to have failed--especially since we're still fighting it."
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