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The Telecom Bill

I’ll preface this by saying, yet again, that these are my thoughts and not an official position of my employer.
With the Senate version of telecom reform moving out of the Commerce Committee, now the fun begins. If you know anything about the Senate, it’s probably the fact that they move slower than a

A Delicate Constitutional Balance

By now everyone probably has heard of the terrorist financing surveillance that was disrupted by the New York Times. Despite strenuous objections by members of both parties, the NY Times ran an article that detailed how the US monitors banking transactions overseas to identify and track terrorists.
That was stupid and dangerous. Given that

Two Idiots In A Canoe Is Not A Coherent Message

Any time some moron gets himself arrested at a protest, they always make some stupid comment about what they perceive as the greater point to their action. Today is no different. Two MENSA candidates got arrested for trying to row ashore near a fundraiser featuring the Vice President in Minnesota. Their comment?
Protester

Why Would You Do This?

At a time when Administration officials are being convicted for their relationship with lobbyists, and members of Congress are keeping bribe money in their freezer and printing up “bribery menus” on congressional note cards, you’d think the last thing you want to do is appear to be a little too cozy with lobbyists.
That thought, however,