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IF OBAMA IS REELECTED THE ONLY FREE SPEECH THAT WILL BE ALLOWED WILL BE THAT WHICH SUPPORTS SOCIALISM.

Joe, it is a giant anti-intellectual leap to project that from a recommendation of an advisory commission that Obama would in fact reimpose the fairness doctrine. The FCC is a commission independent of presidential control. The article errs by referring to the 1980 FCC as "President Ronald Reagan's" FCC. Neither Reagan nor Obama can influence what the FCC does other than through the process of filling vacancies on the FCC. The FCC is an arm of Congress, not the Executive Branch. Moreover, there are strong reasons to suspect that Obama would not order such a step even if he could. He was a professor of constitutional law and surely realizes that such a step would provoke outrage and lawsuits from the right, the center, and the left. While ignorance about global warming is rampant, stifling dissent could never overcome that. There is no scientific question that we are going through a period of global warming. Glaciers and the polar ice caps are melting, beyond any doubt. As to causes, it should be taken into account that *all* of the prominent global warming skeptics are funded by fossil fuel companies that will take an economic hit if America decides to drastically reduce its CO-2 emissions and that very few of them have scientific credentials. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy#Funding_for_partisans They are lobbyists and propagandists. Outside the U.S., there is very little controversy over global warming and its causes. Short story: I'd advise some research into whether you have been played as a victim of baseless fossil fuel company propaganda.

The Issue:  President Obama and his liberal cohorts are set to takeover the Internet beginning November 20 unless freedom-loving Americans demand this illegal assault on Free Speech in America end. Back on December 21, 2009, a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) power-grab, illegally imposed strict, job-killing restrictions on the Internet. The move was no doubt fueled by Tea Party successes, and a growing fear among liberals that conservatives needed to be silenced. That said, the FCC move wasn't widely reported. In fact, many are unsure as to what the new Net Neutrality rules actually mean. What is certain, however, is that in seizing the Internet Obama has also muzzled the greatest mechanism of growth in our history (under the guise of promoting "freedom" for all), and taken one giant step closer to controlling the unfettered access to news and information that we read. The Action:  Without the support of the American people and requiring no votes in Congress, the so-called Net Neutrality rules didn't require any Congressional action. Now with the federal government seizing control, Grassfire Nation is moving quickly to amass at least 150,000 petitions demanding Congress to reverse the Net Neutrality ruling through legislation.  

Obama statement today coming out for net neutrality in a big way. He asked FCC to reclassify all internet traffic under Title II. This follows by only a few days statements by Comcast and AT&T to the FCC that they have no plans to offer fast-lane service for a price. The only question left seems to be whether the FCC will do it.

The Florida case is particularly interesting because Florida is within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which has just ruled that law enforcement must obtain a search warrant from a court before using equipment to determine a cell phone's location.  

WOW!  Renown Ayn Rand expert, Harry Binswanger, discusses the 2012 election big media accusation that Romney is "short on specifics".  (Not that Obama ever provided anything close to a specific explanation, but there it is.)  In his discussion, Harry describes exactly how to present "principles" that then can be easily connected to "specifics".   Incredible read. excerpt: "Here's a sample of what an ideal candidate would say, first in terms of principles: "The only proper function of government is to protect individual rights, and the only way rights can be violated is by the initiation of physical force. Under my administration, we will return to the original American system in which the government uses its physical force only in retaliation against those who initiate its use in violation of individual rights. The fundamental right is the right to life, and its corollaries include the right to private property, without which no other rights are possible." He could then go on to name policy goals that represent mid-level abstractions: "Entitlement programs are the initiation of force; they seize the property of some to provide unearned benefits to others. This is immoral; it is a legalized equivalent of theft. Thus, I will drastically cut entitlement spending-whether "discretionary" or not. Another area of initiated government force is regulation. Regulation by its nature is preventive law, interfering with the lives of the innocent in order to (supposedly) prevent the guilty from acting. This is force initiated against the innocent, so I will drastically cut the number and scope of regulations over the same 4 years." Now the real fun comes when, having established this context, he gets to specifics: "My first budget will cut funds for all departments, except Defense, to 15% below what they received the previous year. This is an across-the-board cut, not something to become the subject of infighting among departments. Then in my next budget I will cut 15%

The return of the occupied Golan Heights is absolutely required by the U.N. Charter, Geneva Conventions, and numerous U.N. Security Council resolutions.  Israel's purported security concerns do not create a lawful exception. What is really at stake in the Golan Heights and the occupied territories of Palestine is whether the U.N. Charter did in fact put an end to the right of Conquest.