The Federal Communications Commission is presently conducting an inquiry–a “rulemaking”–to determine whether to relax, or even to eliminate, the remaining few regulations that limit how many me
It’s one thing to have Somali groups protesting Black Hawk Down for what they say is an inaccurate and racist portrayal of Somalis.
Barbara Coe is not your typical sixty-something silver-haired-senior-in-polyester.
The success of Michael Bloomberg’s $69 million race for Mayor of New York against Mark Green was widely seen as a setback for campaign finance reform. But the Bloomberg campaign demonstrated the limits of campaign finance reform under the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution, not its failure.
(A Houston version of the Irish folk song)
Oh, Kenny Boy, your friends are disappearing.
They don’t know you, much less your kvetchy wife.
Yes, it’s sad when pols that you’ve been shmeering
Now hope that you’ll get twenty years to life.
They sang your song: They passed deregulation.
They passed your laws. They bent the regs your way.
But now they track your every obfuscation.
Old Kenny Boy, their Kenny Boy’s now Mr. Lay.
On East Capitol Street a few years ago, I was in a taxi when a car pulled suddenly and dangerously across our bow. My driver was white, with a hunter’s cap and earmuffs and an indefinable rosy hue about his neck. The offending motorist was black. Both vehicles had to stop sharply. My driver did not, to my relief, say what I thought he might have been about to say.
You have to hand it to George Bush the senior for hustle. Back in 1998, he took at least $80,000 in stock from Global Crossing in return for speaking for the company in Tokyo.
Frederick Wiseman has spent a lifetime piecing together sounds and images captured from the daily flow.
On East Capitol Street a few years ago, I was in a taxi when a car pulled suddenly and dangerously across our bow. My driver was white, with a hunter’s cap and earmuffs and an indefinable rosy hue about his neck. The offending motorist was black. Both vehicles had to stop sharply. My driver did not, to my relief, say what I thought he might have been about to say.
It’s one thing to have Somali groups protesting Black Hawk Down for what they say is an inaccurate and racist portrayal of Somalis.