Interesting catch-up on the FCC under Obama and chairman Julius Genachowski, on the Bloomberg wire. Not so much a substantive view but a personnel summary — new, and out-of-the-mainstream appointees.
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An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Tom Paine
---"Dissertations on First Principles of Government," 1795
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, by Max Blumenthal.
