Corporations and PACs and Unions all are made up of people, so you're claiming that the constituent people have no rights simply because they have organized themselves in one of those functions.

Asinine.

I grew up in Oregon, in a time and area when the number of people moving in from California was significant.

The real reason Oregon keeps operator-pump only gasoline? Because people keep asking why Oregon is different.

No, I'm not kidding. Conversation comes up on dropping it occasionally, and the big worry when I was growing up was all the transplanted people would vote for changing it. Seriously, there was more resistance to self-pump gas than to Measure 9 in 1992, which failed.

There's no real caring about jobs, or safety. It's because all the surrounding states have self pump, and Oregon doesn't.

Oregon gas is still cheaper than California.

There's more to it than that. As journalism became a profession in the middle of the last century, news organizations would actually compete to be seen as the most factual and least biased sources of news.

BS.

Prior to television, ALL news sources were biased, and wore their bias proudly. Search how many newspapers have "Union" in their name.

With the advance of television, and to a lesser extent radio, it became obvious that a limited availability of transmission capability - not to mention receiver channels - that all parties involved, stations and viewers both decided impartiality was a goal worth having.

Newspapers kinda got drug along for the ride.

Now, with the internet and 1000 television stations, the -mutual- incentive for impartiality is gone, and so the actual impartiality is gone.

I, for one, welcome bias. So long as the participants are clear they're not neutral. It's a shame Fox claims to be "fair and balanced", but it's a larger shame that CNN makes similar claims.

Now everyone is left with either a local monopoly or at best a duopoly of broadband providers

Largely, if not entirely, due to FCC involvement and rent seeking.

The solution is not to restrict even more who can provide broadband, which is the suggestion here, but rather to open it up entirely. No regulation at all. I'm not sure where the gov't gets off regulating something that can't physically harm somebody anyways.

Wow. Your complaint isn't that the claim is incorrect, isn't that the quote wasn't said, but rather as your own personal complaint about the site that hosts the quote.

Talk about pure partisan noise, coming from you.

(unless Europeans decide they hate their own culture)

Already done.

It is indeed to do with the AKP party - but that is nothing new for turkey - what is new that this time the army has not responded with a coup as it normally does when religious folk get out of control in turkey. I think it has happened at least 3 or 4 times so far.

This is true, and entirely the fault of the EU. The -people- of Turkey want a religious, sharia law based, dictatorship. It's a foreign thought to western minds, but as you point out they've pressured for such a gov't several times. At which point the, highly secular, military comes out in a minor coup and re-establishes what was the second freest nation in the area.

The EU didn't like that, so as such a gov't is being implemented now the military is holding back and not correcting the situation, and we get headlines like this one.

Yet, Turkey is/was a charter nation in the creation of the United Nations; they've also been a member in NATO since the Cold War.

The UN is populated more by dictatorships than anything approaching "free countries", and NATO broke down into a "sign this paper against communism and the US will give you money" almost instantly.

Information like "Africans engaged in the slave trade" and "Entitlements cost more to the gov't than the entire military." We -know- California doesn't want truths like that getting out.

Coke or Soda both work, but if you want to drink your 'Pop', I don't want to hear about it and if you insist on doing it in public I hope you get arrested for incest.

Having grown up in Oregon, theoretically I should accept and embrace drinking "Pop", but it will never happen.

Not everything is regional.

No. Every penny gov't employees make comes out of "your pockets". The same gov't employees that, on average, make more than private employees. The same gov't employees agitating for tax increases so they can get pay raises.

Don't pretend its just the rich getting taxed either. That's not only silly classism, but inherently wrong. The first tax implemented by the Obama administration was a regressive sin tax. The Obamacare system contains seven seperate taxes that directly tax people making under $200k/yr, including increases to income tax.

The market, on the other hand, actually creates wealth.

Palin only said that you could see Russia from Alaska

"They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska." The actual quote, and an actual fact.

she was trying to claim that as a reason for why she has experience in international politics

In context, that is not her claim. However, it should be noted that Palin engaged in international treaty negotiations, as a representative of the United States as well as Alaska, with Canada. The topic was a natural gas pipeline. In the 2008 Presidential elections, she was the only one of the four Presidential or Vice Presidential candidates with international negotiation experience.

Self defense is not "trouble". In fact, suggesting that self defense should be removed as a viable legal option should make you a target for elimination. In self defense.

You're dying. Six weeks to live.

What do you care of side effects?

This is the major problem with FDA interference with medicines that can control or cure life-ending diseases.

Fix -what- locally? Demand smaller gov't, and less taxes? Done!