They have a cold, we catch the flu. China wants to cool off its growth, we slide into recession. The policies which control our economy are being made in Beijing, not in Washington.

The charge is that Kos and Armstrong used this channel to get their fellow bloggers to keep quiet about their "scandal," which TNR and the Times were trying to concoct. This is a lie.

What has happened for years, what will happen, is the Bells will stuff this money into their pockets and do nothing for it. The whole subsidy is based on an industrial-era lie, on the high costs of wired telephony, and frankly it's unnecesary.

Real change does not happen often. For assumptions to change you need a crisis. You need a set of problems that the current Thesis cannot comprehend. You need consequences so massive as to be unquestionable.

Alberto Gonzalez has been raised on the Bush myth. He is dedicated to it, absolutely, just as Ramsey Clark ws to the Roosevelt myth.

There are things which can be done. But expecting capital to flow into an industry the government is discouraging doesn’t mean the science is wrong, or the market has rejected the idea. It means we need to change the policy.

There are ample new supplies of real Internet bits available. They don't need subsidy. All they need is an opportunity to come to market.

A simple FCC action, long advocated by smart people like Dave Hughes (the drinker of the beer above), and the rural broadband problem is solved.

For the rest of this week only, Bruce Kushnick’s amazing e-book, the $200 Billion Broadband Scandal, is going to be available free, as a PDF file. Get it. Before you fall prey to one more Bell ad, before you pay one more DSL bill, before the Bells start trying to charge sites that paid their […]

You know who they're going to get mad at, Andy? At the politicians who allowed this to happen, and to their enablers as places like The Weekly Standard. Want to know how we got to this pass, Andy? Look in a mirror.