“Fiscal Conservative” Goes Full Circle (via Ryan Thomas McNeely)

Mr. McNeely has a new blog. The good folks at Rortybomb were kind enough to point it out to me. This is good writing and a good grip on issues. A lot of what he has written has been dealing with the deficits at the different levels of government and the different ways the government has reacted.

This is one of those blogs that I recommend you put in your favorites. A subscription would be a good idea.

But above all – Welcome! Ryan Thomas McNeely – to the good fight or at least the Internet part of it.

I’m wish you thousands of hits, hundreds of subscribers and a host of talk show invites!

James Pilant

A couple weeks back, Greg Sargent had a great post where he essentially argued that the term “fiscal hawk” does not actually mean what progressives think it means (or want it to mean) — namely, someone who wants to aggressively tackle the deficit. Rather, since the media regularly confers the term on people like Paul Ryan, someone who voted for debt-financed Medicare expansion and tax cuts without offsets, the term “fiscal hawk” actually means ” … Read More

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Jesus Hates Net Neutrality (via Strategic Mac)

Frankly, the New Testament has not given me many distinct policy points that Christ might want to take a position on. I think the author feels about the same way that I do.

I am a devoted to the idea of net neutrality. At the very least, I am devoted to it because I want to keep blogging and if my site is downgraded, everyone down to my relatives will stop looking at it.

The author has strong political views and I am fine with that. Bring on the political views! We need some serious discussions about what we should be doing in this country and what I usually hear was canned for public consumption about 80 years ago.

Read the article. Enjoy. There’s good stuff being said here.

James Pilant

Republicans are bound and determined to prove that with regard to Net Neutrality they are complete bone heads. Consider that the new Speaker of the House, speaking in front of the “Send your Money To Jesus” association, said that he will basically go to his grave attempting to make sure that big ISPs own the Internet. He said that if he can’t override t … Read More

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