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From one of my favorite solopreneurs, author of “the four hour work week”, champion salsa dancer, and MMA fighter, Tim Ferris: Information and interview regarding FISA (Federal Information and Surveillance Act) amendments.read more | digg story

Help stop this legislation! Hidden deep in the Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision inserted by Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses. There is a good chance that we can still stop this, but not without everyone’s help. read more | digg story

a 61-year-old librarian was kicked out of McCain’s “public” townhall, issued a ticket for “trespassing” and threatened with arrest if she returned…all because she had a “McCain=Bush” sign. WTF ever happened to free speech?read more | digg story

Gas prices are hitting all-time highs. Our country is in the midst of a recession thanks in part to our crippling dependence on oil, so what’s John McCain’s plan? Will he hold the corporate leaders of the energy industry accountable when he addresses them today in Houston? Probably not, considering they are some of his [...]

Pixar’s Wall-E portrays a lonely robot’s quest for love, as he is left to clean up a trashed earth. Meanwhile, the over-indulged humans wait it out aboard gigantic spaceships run by a monolithic corporation-turned-government that “resemble spas for the fat and lazy.” Somehow, this touching love story has outraged the radical right.read more | digg [...]

Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He want to Punahou, a private high school in Hawaii on a scholarship. Other Punahou alumni include: AOL-founder Steve Case and eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar (Omidyar attended and is on the Board of Trustees, but graduated from a different high school), Wendy Lee Gramm and Robert [...]

In a stunning act of hypocrisy, Barack Obama has broken his pledge to accept public financing for the 2008 general election. Obama is the first presidential candidate to opt out of the public finance system instituted after the Watergate scandal.  After claiming to run a campaign of change, it seems the only thing he is [...]

I want to take this opportunity to speak directly to those of you who oppose my decision to support the FISA compromise. This was not an easy call for me. I know that the FISA bill that passed the House is far from perfect. I wouldn’t have drafted the legislation like this, and it does [...]

Maya Curry & Amanda Ripley of Time.com have their cups half full… of $4 gas.  Amanda takes a look at the good things about $4 gas. Among the good things about overpriced gas are: globalized jobs return – Since its now more expensive to travel or ship goods, it now makes less economic sense to [...]