Information Commons
Here's an interesting report I rant across.
Information Commons - the open idea for media - web content - in addition to code.
http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/InformationCommons.pdf
Here's an interesting report I rant across.
Information Commons - the open idea for media - web content - in addition to code.
http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/InformationCommons.pdf
Conservative jurist Robert Bork has written one of the most scorching editorials in the 200-plus years of the republic. He leaves President George W. Bush in ashes.
Here's the link, from the Wall Street Journal opinion page.
Vice President Dick Cheney is widely thought to be in real legal trouble due to the involvement of his office in dirty political tricks inside the beltway.
The legal precedent that would make him vulnerable to indictment while in office is the one that let the Paula Jones case go forward against then sitting President Bill Clinton.
Here's the roundup of facts by Bloomberg's.
Mr. Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has divided the conservative intelligentsia, but the "stealth" quality of the pick is reliably fanning the fires under potboiler issues for his christian populist voting base. Here's an overview of the move ...
Tom Delay is the House Majority Leader for the Republicans. As the leader, he enforces party discipline, which means he uses threats, money, cajoling, deal-making, flattery, and intimidation to get members of his party to vote his way.
He is a former insect exterminator from Texas. His nickname, based on his ruthless and unprecedented effectiveness as leader, is "The Hammer." He has been a key feature of the Bush administration's domination of Congress in the past 4.5 years.
In this indictment, Delay is accused of using the checkbook of a national Republican group to launder Texas political contributions in deliberate circumvention of Texas campaign finance laws. The technical charge, brought by the state of Texas, is criminal conspiracy to do so.
This story is bigger than just another money scandal because Delay used the cash to rearrange US congressional districting in Texas to Republican benefit.
Here's a thorough summary of the story in the Washington Post.
ps ... the GOP nickname for the Republicans stands for Grand Old Party.