The Supreme Court today held — in a 5-4 decisions along predictable ideological lines — that an FCC regulatory change that made broadcasters legally liable for broadcasting even fleeting, isolated swear words was legal. It was an administrative law, not a First Amendment case, as the Court declined to address the free speech issue. (Both Thomas in concurrence and Ginsburg in dissent raised the strong suggestion that the FCC’s actions were constitutionally dubious.) Rather, the Court simply held that the FCC’s regulatory change was not “arbitrary and capricious” and was hence within the agency’s regulatory authority. Breyer, writing the chief dissent, was not persuaded, arguing that while the agency’s reasoning might have sufficed in the first instance it was insufficient to justify a change in policy, as it essentially represented a different weighing of policy preferences rather than a relevant change of facts.
The Internet is a good place to start a profitable business. Many people want to participate 
into the available online business opportunities so that they can build up their own Internet business and make a great deal of money online from time to time just like those successfully e-entrepreneurs.
There are perhaps only two groups of people who view knowledge as a flaw, and ignorance as an asset: Seventh-graders, and the Washington press corps.
Question and answer sites are quite popular among people who are searching for specific information or have some knowledge to share. In these websites, users post their questions on any topic anyone could possibly think of and other users can post their answers. All questions and answers are then stored within the site. This way, those who do not wish to participate can still use the site by searching for topics that are of interest to them and viewing answers to other users’ questions.
Stocks opened lower this morning after investors worried about the outbreak of the ’swine flu’ and what impact it might have on the global economy. But the fears don’t seem to have persisted for long, as the major indexes have already bounced back into positive territory. Talk about being hard to keep this market down–
Shorter Stuart Taylor: It is well-established that criminal laws can only be applied if it can be proven that lawbreaking had no positive consequence whatsoever.* By far the most reliable guide to whether such consequences exist is the highly reliable unsubstantiated assertions of the lawbreakers themselves. A commission to investigate the Bush administration’s arbitrary torture is OK, but the only acceptable outcome is exoneration, which we should assume in advance. After all, an illegal arbitrary torture regime is far less consequential than a president lying about receiving a blowjob — now that’s worth a multi-year investigation.
I must credit Michael Scheuer; all previous efforts at pro-torture buffoonery pale in comparison to this:
Read the rest of this entry »
Social media sites are so hot these days. The biggest social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Digg, and Delicious are gaining hundreds of millions of visitors every month. Thus, these social media sites have seem to be great tools for building traffic and make money online.
Yes, I sure hope that the GOP will emulate the strategy that brought Jim Tedesco such smashing success. I mean, Glenn Reynolds thinks that this race proves that Barack Obama is very unpopular, and he’s never wrong about anything! Read the rest of this entry »
