bill backwards

Up early to head to Belfast for the day. First time in Northern Ireland (and Ireland for that matter). Looking forward to that. Easyjet…not.

A well-organized, well-funded, well-connected, well-experienced lobbying effort on Capitol Hill was outflanked by an ad-hoc group of rank amateurs, most of whom were operating independent of one another and on their spare time. Regardless where you stand on the issue — and effective copyright protection is an important issue — this is very good news for the future of civic engagement.

David Binetti

The week the web changed Washington - O’Reilly Radar

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The Joy Of Primary Politics

I love how the now conservative rallying candidate in the Republican primary is nothing but a social conservative hypocrite. It essentially sums up the essence of those who busy themselves with demanding how others live their personal lives. This is going to be a fantastically enjoyable election. Too bad so much wasn’t at stake.

As a conservative columnist (Daniel Larison) in the US wrote yesterday “Republicans are faced with an unfortunate predicament entirely of their own making: they can rally behind the Republican Bill Clinton to try to stop Romney, or they can nominate the liar.”

Go team.