During its first full day, the 110th Democratic-controlled Congress got to work on new legislation and one of the first tech-related bills was The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), John McCain (R-AZ) and John Sununu (R-NH) would make permanent an existing ban on state and [...]
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Think Progress » Congressman: ‘I Fear…We Will Have Many More Muslims In The United States’
The article above is an attack on an American public servant. He voices his opinions of the current state of immigration in the United States and got attacked for his beliefs. I do not know anything about this man personally, but [...]
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I understand that cable broadband Internet providers work on what they prefer to call a “best effort” system. They try to provide you service “up to” a specific speed. Therefore, if you subscribe to a specific tier of service, you are not guaranteed to get anymore bandwidth than someone on a lower tier. [...]
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Ben’s House - Stuff Ben Wrote
A decent article about Christmas time involving the idea that Americans are so offended by differing beliefs in Christmas and God. I think Ben’s statements are accurate and I agree whole-heartedly with him on this one. Good job, Mr. Stein.
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I found this very interesting being a huge history buff (as of late). It is a story about disgruntled Civil war Confederate soldiers who moved to Brazil after the war and started a community of their own founded on southern principals. I found this even more interesting when I was reading through some [...]
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I watched a movie last night that I have seen before. I like the plot of the movie a lot. I think it could be a rather enjoyable film if there wasn’t such a liberal agenda behind it. The movie was, The American President. A large part of the movie focuses on how the President [...]
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JohnKerry.com - Blog: John Kerry Responds
John Kerry is a liberal jerk. His statement about education and troops is not acceptable and he should apologize to our troops. His failed attempt at covering up his stupid remarks by saying that they were a botched joke about the Presidents policies in Iraq is the funniest thing I [...]
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