Entries Tagged 'US Politics' ↓

there’s a great interview with Rep Rick Boucher: Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use Crusade. From page 2: “I would spend my time as a committee member when I was addressing [record companies] saying, ‘OK, why don’t you do something about it yourself? Why don’t you put your entire inventory up on the web and make it available in a user-friendly format for a reasonable price per track and get away from clinging to this old, outdated business model…’”

has a good piece on evolution vs intelligent design by H Allen Orr.

“News of the Times” is a not-so-subtle commentary on the evolution/ID fracas in Kansas this week.

has a good short summary of the state of capital punishment in the US and globally following last week’s US Supreme Court decision: An end to killing kids.

South of the border is about a story by Declan McCullagh at News.com: The coming crackdown on blogging. It’s an interview with Bradley Smith, a commissioner of the Federal Election Commission. They’re talking about regulating internet publications under the advertising limits. Very strange.

the most intelligent opinion on the Ward Churchill brouhaha in Colorado belongs to Dahlia Lithwick: Stupidity as a Firing Offense - Why is Bill O’Reilly chairing our faculty meetings? “One hundred percent of the blame for the Churchill debacle rests with the University of Colorado’s board of regents that hired, granted tenure to, and promoted an individual whose scholarship and personal qualifications are now, and must always have been, in serious question.”