Uncle Sam wants you. As most people with access to media know, YouTube has asked vox populi to submit questions for the Democratic presidential candidates on a televised debate (CNN) July 23. The problem is that while more than 1300 questions have been uploaded so far, according to a good article in the WashPost today, CNN's editors will choose the relatively few questions to ask the candidates.

Something of a bottleneck, there, especially considering the many ways CNN went along with the administration and facilitated its achievement of war with Iraq.

A web site named Community Counts has ...   more »

The email below, which went out to mailing lists including my PC, suggests strongly that the GOP is up to its old tricks again. According to the correspondent, the National Republican Senatorial Committee did not even include Ron Paul in its most recent mailing for a GOP presidential preference poll. These people don't want even their own supporters to vote.

The most entrenched figures in both major parties are doing their best to exclude most of our population from any genuine decision-making, but the GOP does it by far more thoroughly than even Dems like Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Schumer and ...   more »