Kimberly Dvorak -- The Examiner -- January 31, 2011      Obama seeks Internet kill switch for U.S.    While the Middle East crisis continues to simmer or boil over in Egypt's case, American lawmakers revisit the need to implement an Internet kill switch for the U.S. -- The need for such aggressive measures by any government has played out in recent days and U.S. lawmakers have dusted off their playbooks... [See Big Brother Watch - NWO Treason Watch - Obama Watch]

CNET -- January 26, 2011    DOJ pressed for details on Internet tracking plan    Members of Congress chided the U.S. Department of Justice today for suggesting a new law requiring Internet companies to keep records of user activity, but not disclosing details on how it should be crafted to aid criminal investigations. -- At a House of Representatives hearing, as CNET was the first to report, the Justice Department endorsed the concept... [See NWO Treason Watch - Police State Watch]

Kay Daly -- GOPUSA.com -- January 26, 2011     The Internet 'kill switch'    Well now here is just about the worst idea EVER. Giving President Obama a "kill switch" for the Internet? -- In other words, should Obama decide that the nation's security is under attack -- cyberattack, to be exact -- he would have the ability to control the Internet. There is no doubt that those agencies that have life-or-death issues... [See Big Brother Watch - NWO Treason Watch - Police State Watch]

CBS News -- January 24, 2011     Renewed push to give Obama an Internet "kill switch"    A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a "national cyberemergency," and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year. -- Internet companies should not be alarmed by the legislation, first introduced last summer by Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins... [See Big Brother Watch -- NWO Treason Watch]

J.D. Longstreet -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga. -- January 17, 2011     America On the Brink: Freedom of speech in peril     The political left in America is playing with fire. As Americans of my generation can tell you our parents warned us many times that playing with fire would get you burned. The left doesn't know that. If they do -- they are choosing to ignore it -- at their own peril...

Tom Fitton -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga. -- January 16, 2011    Free speech for conservatives under attack, and blood libel     You remember this quip from former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel during the financial crisis? "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," Emanuel told The Wall Street Journal. Well look no further than the horrible shooting in Tucson, Arizona, to see this craven philosophy in action once again...

KPFK-FM -- Los Angeles -- January 14, 2011   Audio Report     Usual suspects bemoan L.A. talk show hosts' "heated political rhetoric"     In the wake of president Obama's speech this week on the massacre in Arizona, there has been a national dialogue on the political discourse in the US. Many are pointing to the deluge of violent and militaristic rhetoric heard daily on right wing am radio and even Fox News, as influencing Americans... [See Obama Watch - Big Brother Watch]

Paul Joseph Watson -- Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- January 12, 2011     Poll: Americans reject media hoax on Arizona shootings    The establishment media campaign to crassly exploit the tragic Arizona shootings as a way to bludgeon the First Amendment and silence critics of the Obama administration has failed spectacularly, with even a majority of Democrats telling a CBS poll that "violent political rhetoric" was not to blame for the actions of a mentally disturbed madman... [Related item] [See Obama Watch]

Ad Week -- January 11, 2011     Congressmen calling for review of nightmarish "Fairness Doctrine"  In the aftermath of the horrific shooting in Tucson, Ariz., some government officials have called for a revival of The Fairness Doctrine -- or something like it. --Ruled unconstitutional in 1987, the Federal Communications Commission stopped enforcing The Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to give equal time to opposing views... [See Big Brother Watch - Obama Watch]

Fox News -- January 9, 2011       Pima County Sheriff sets off debate on price of free speech    Heightened and "vitriolic" political rhetoric is being blamed by some for the kind of violence that landed Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in intensive care following a mass casualty shooting on Saturday, but others say a blame game is hardly appropriate or useful right now. -- Pima County, Ariz., Sheriff Clarence Dupnik sparked much of the debate...

Paul Joseph Watson -- Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- January 9, 2011      "Toning down the rhetoric" means obeying big government    Despite the fact that Jared Lee Loughner was a psychotic loner with "left-wing" beliefs according to those who knew him, the establishment has hastily exploited yesterday's tragic shooting in Tucson to demonize conservatives, libertarians and gun owners while ordering Americans to "tone down the rhetoric," which is nothing more than a euphemism for stifling dissent... [See Big Brother Watch]

Matthew Boyle -- The Daily Caller -- December 28, 2010       Another absurd attack on term describing illegal alien scofflaws    The Diversity Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is seeking to "inform and sensitize" reporters nationwide about how "offensive" the term "illegal immigrant" is to Latinos. -- Diversity Committee member Leo Laurence announced the campaign against "illegal immigrant" and "illegal alien" terminology...

Rasmussen Reports -- December 28, 2010     Few want feckless Feds messing with Internet; skulduggery feared American voters believe free market competition will protect Internet users more than government regulation and fear that regulation will be used to push a political agenda. -- The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 21% of likely voters want the FCC to regulate the Internet... [See Big Brother Watch -- Obama Watch -- NWO Treason Watch]

J.D. Longstreet -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga. -- December 23, 2010   Obama's FCC threatens Internet freedom     We have issued this warning until we are nearly blue in the face, yet, somehow, Americans still do not seem to grasp the fact that there is, currently, a stealth attack on the First Amendment by the US government. -- We have warned, time and time again, that a free Internet is an immeasurable threat to the liberal-socialists who currently control the US government... [See Big Brother Watch - Big Sis Watch - Obama Watch]

Michelle Malkin -- Family Security Matters -- December 22, 2010      Internet access is not a "civil right"    When bureaucrats talk about increasing our "access" to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to "increase" Internet "access." Call it Webcare... [See Obama Watch & Big Brother Watch]

Wall Street Journal -- December 21, 2010      FCC gives government power to regulate Web traffic    Federal telecommunications regulators approved new rules Tuesday that would for the first time give the federal government formal authority to regulate Internet traffic, although how much or for how long remained unclear. -- A divided Federal Communications Commission approved a proposal by Chairman Julius Genachowski to give the FCC power... [See Obama Watch & Big Brother Watch]

Joseph Klein -- NewsReal Blog  -- December 21, 2010     Obama and the United Nations will be watching the Internet for you    All Internet users beware! An Internet free of the heavy hand of government regulation may become a thing of the past. First, we have the Obama administration seeking to place controls on the Internet. -- Second, the United Nations establishment is trying to establish mechanisms for global governance of the Internet... [See Free Speech Watch and Big Brother Watch]

Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- December 21, 2010      Al Sharpton calls for FCC hearings on talk radio    Democrat talk radio host and Baptist minister Al Sharpton called for Rush Limbaugh and other radio talk show hosts to be dragged before the FCC to answer questions. Sharpton told the Ed Show last Thursday he supports McCarthy-like hearings. He wants the agency to squelch the First Amendment of political opponents...

Nextgov.com -- December 16, 2010      'Big Sis' now wants to glom onto the Internet    Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday asserted cybersecurity is a civilian domain, not a military battlefield or private sector jurisdiction, as some critics of federal cyber policy have argued. -- "Some categorize the challenge as one for the market, or a looming war," she said... [See Obama Watch] [Related item]

Matthew Shaffer -- National Review -- December 16, 2010      New Radio Copps?     "What we have had in recent years is an aberration in which we've had no oversight of media." So says FCC commissioner Michael Copps, who is now advocating the institution of a quadrennial "public-value test" for broadcasters. If he gets his way, stations across the country could be put on probation, and subsequently denied FCC licensing... [See Big Brother Watch]

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- December 10, 2010      Wikileaks Founder: Bigger bombshells on the way    One of the original members of Wikileaks warns that a series of bigger bombshell revelations are in the pipeline and that the growing crisis being contrived around the group and its figurehead Julian Assange is greasing the skids for the cybersecurity agenda to regulate and censor the World Wide Web... [See Obama Watch -- Big Brother Watch -- NWO Treason Watch]

The Hill -- Washington -- December 7, 2010      FCC push to regulate news draws fire    Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) pushed back on Monday against a contention by a Democratic FCC commissioner that the government should create new regulations to promote diversity in news programming. -- Barton was reacting to a proposal made last week by FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who in a speech suggested that broadcasters be subject to a new "public values test" every four years... [See Obama Watch -- Big Brother Watch -- NWO Treason Watch]

Daniel Tencer -- Raw Story -- December 3, 2010      Feckless Feds tracking credit cards, store purchases without warrant: report  Federal law enforcement routinely tracks individuals through their credit cards, cell phones, car rentals and even store customer loyalty programs without obtaining a warrant, an online privacy activist has discovered. -- According to a document obtained from the Department of Justice by online privacy activist Christopher Soghoian... [See Obama Watch - NWO TreasonWatch - Big Brother Watch]

Zero Hedge -- December 3, 2010    Lieberman's campaign to trample 1st Amendment is proceeding on schedule As if it wasn't enough that America's ruling oligarchs were sufficiently happy with abdicating their governing duties to the Federal Reserve, they have now decided to imitate China in every possible way, and in addition to making up economic data as they go (for actual numbers just look around you...) [See Obama Watch - NWO TreasonWatch - Big Brother Watch]

J.D. Longstreet -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga. -- December 2, 2010     Obama socialist regime moves for control of the Internet     It's called "Net Neutrality." Sounds fair, right? I mean -- that's what the liberal-socialist democrats are all about, right? Fairness is their utmost priority, right? Why, they'd never do anything to limit the freedom of Americans.... riiiiight? -- If you believe all that, then prepare yourself for a rude awakening... [See Obama Watch & Big Brother Watch]

Sandy Williams -- Canada Free Press -- Toronto -- November 27, 2010      Senator Jay Rockefeller wishes FCC would shut down Fox News    A powerful Democratic senator, pointing the finger at cable news for a politically toxic climate in Washington, unleashed a stunning tirade in which he expressed his desire to see the Federal Communications Commission shut down Fox News and MSNBC... [See Big Brother Watch]

Ted Nugent -- Human Events -- October 26, 2010  The left hates free speech - Juan at a time     National Public Radio's firing of commentator Juan Williams is yet another example of how political correctness has poisoned free speech. -- Mr. Williams didn't say anything that the vast majority of Americans wouldn't say or agree with regarding genuine and well-founded concerns...

Washington Examiner -- August 23, 2010     Philly requiring bloggers to pay $300 for a business license    It looks like cash hungry local governments are getting awfully rapacious these days: Between her blog and infrequent contributions to ehow.com, over the last few years she says she's made about $50. To [Marilyn] Bess, her website is a hobby. To the city of Philadelphia, it's a potential moneymaker... [See Big Brother Watch]

Matt Hawes -- Campaign for Liberty -- August 7, 2010      Who poses the real threat to the Internet?    A new opinion piece on CNN.com argues that it's the government, not the companies providing internet access, that is the real danger to free speech and the internet: We should be skeptical of any claims that net neutrality regulation is consistent with the First Amendment, let alone required by it... [See Obama Watch -- Big Brother Watch -- NWO Treason Watch]

The Hill -- Washington -- August 6, 2010     Kerry pushes FCC to continue on regulatory path to Internet takeover    A congressional stalemate has made passage of a net-neutrality bill unlikely for the time being, according to a statement from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Thursday. Kerry said regulation by the Federal Communications Commission is now the best option for government oversight of broadband Internet access...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner -- July 22, 2010     Government Internet control viewed as necessary by feds    Senate Bill 773, as written by West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, would create new "emergency" powers for the President to have power over any "non-governmental" computer networks, whether public or private, that are declared by the President to be "critical." [See Obama Watch -- Big Brother Watch -- NWO Treason Watch]

WorldNetDaily.com -- July 1, 2010      Soros-funded group wants feds to probe talk radio    A George-Soros-funded, Marxist-founded organization with close ties to the White House has urged the Federal Communications Commission to investigate talk radio and cable news for "hate speech." -- The organization, calling itself Free Press, claims media companies are engaging in "hate speech"... [See Obama Watch -- Big Brother Watch]

Washington Times -- July 7, 2010      TSA drops policy blocking 'controversial' sites    After an uproar from conservative bloggers and free-speech activists, the Transportation Security Administration late Tuesday rescinded a new policy that would have prevented employees from accessing websites with "controversial opinions" on TSA computers at work... [See Obama Watch -- Big Brother Watch -- NWO Treason Watch]

BorderInvasionPics.com -- July 6, 2010       Big Brother blocks access to border watchdog Web site at DHS    BorderInvasionPics.com, the watchdogs who capture video of illegals, drug mules, and gun-packing foreigners invading the U.S., embarrassing the likes of Obama's DHS Queen Napolitano who claims the border is "more secure than ever before," have had their Web site blocked from being accessed by DHS computers. [See Big Brother Watch -- NWO Treason Watch]

CBS News via Drudge Report -- July 6, 2010      Big Sis to block Web sites with 'controversial opinions'     The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is blocking certain websites from the federal agency's computers, including halting access by staffers to any Internet pages that contain a "controversial opinion," according to an internal email obtained by CBS News... [See Obama Watch -- Big Brother Watch -- NWO Treason Watch]

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- June 28, 2010    New emergency powers give Obama control of the Web    President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet "kill switch" bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and now moves to the floor... [See Big Brother Watch -- NWO Treason Watch]

ARS Technica -- June 1, 2010      FCC asked to monitor "hate speech," "misinformation" online    Over thirty organizations want the Federal Communications Commission to open up a probe on "hate speech" and "misinformation" in media. "Hate has developed as a profit-model for syndicated radio and cable television programs masquerading as 'news'," they wrote to the FCC earlier this month.... [See Big Brother Watch, Czar Watch, and Obama Watch]

Rense.com -- April 15, 2010      ADL: Prosecute Tea Party "hate speech"    The Jewish Anti-Defamation League says alleged racial slurs by Tea Party protestors against Congress members last month are "hate speech" and not protected by the First Amendment. According to ADL, Tea Party protestors "crossed the line" with racial slurs against black Congressmen...

Rasmussen Reports -- April 12, 2010     53% oppose FCC regulation of the Internet    Just 27% of Americans now believe the Federal Communications Commission should regulate the Internet like it does television and radio. That marks a 22-point drop in support for federal regulation of the Internet since June 2008... [See Big Brother Watch]

Associated Press - April 6, 2010     US court rules against FCC on `net neutrality'    A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. -- Tuesday's ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a big victory for Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable company...

Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- March 27, 2010      MSNBC windbag demands return of "Farirness Doctrine"    Ed Schultz, one of the more bombastic "liberals" at MSNBC, has called for “rightwing” talk radio to be shut down. -- Schultz is outraged that Rush Limbaugh has called for opposition to Obama and the Democrat theft of one sixth of the economy. Ed thinks it would be ducks if the IRS and government thugs toting brand spanking new sniper rifles rounded people up...

Infowars.com -- March 16, 2010    Shameful anti-free speech lobby labels questioning government "hate"     ...In resolving to target "conspiracy theories" by grouping them together with racism and terrorism, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is following in the footsteps of the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center, two other purveyors of Zionist propaganda and anti-American intimidation tactics aimed at crushing dissent... [More on the despicable SPLC]

Declan McCullagh -- CNet -- March 8, 2010      Big Brother weighs expansion of internet monitoring    Homeland Security and the National Security Agency may be taking a closer look at Internet communications in the future. -- The Department of Homeland Security's top cybersecurity official told CNET on Wednesday that the department may eventually extend its Einstein technology, which is designed to detect and prevent electronic attack... [See Big Brother Watch]

Steven Yates -- The New American -- February 16, 2010      A "driver's license" for Internet users?    At the recent meeting of the globalist World Economic Forum in Davos, attendee Craig Mundie -- chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft -- floated the notion that a "driver's license" should be required for private citizens to access the Internet, no less than what is required to drive an automobile... [See Big Brother Watch]

Bob Chapman -- Centre for Research on Globalization -- Toronto -- February 15, 2010     Controlling the ability of people and organizations to access the Internet    Under the guise of "protecting Americans" and choosing itself in so-called "national security," the current Obama administration wants to be able to control the ability of people and organizations to access the Internet. -- This concept on its face seems very harmless and in the best interest of the country, however, having the ability to "turn the Internet off or shutting down sites that Obama considers "dangerous..."

Paul Joseph Watson -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- February 8, 2010      Frightening taste of Internet censorship as major free speech Websites blocked     .In a 2008 white paper, Obama's Regulation Czar Cass Sunstein called for the government to tax or even ban outright political opinions of which it disapproved. -- On page 14 of Sunstein's January 2008 white paper entitled "Conspiracy Theories," the man who is now Obama's head of information technology in the White House proposed... [See Czar Watch]

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- February 1, 2010      Enemies of free speech call for "Internet licensing"    Calls to introduce a licensing system to police the Internet on behalf of a powerful UN agency represent the latest salvo in a long-running battle to kill free speech on the web and bring an end to the powerful digital democracy that has devastated the carbon tax agenda of the UN by exposing the Climategate scandal... [See Big Brother Watch]

Agence Presse-France -- January 31, 2010      UN agency calls for global cyberwarfare treaty, 'driver's license' for Web users     The world needs a treaty to prevent cyber attacks becoming an all-out war, the head of the main UN communications and technology agency warned Saturday. -- International Telcommunications Union secretary general Hamadoun Toure gave his warning at a World Economic Forum debate where experts said nations must now consider when a cyber attack becomes a declaration of war... [See Big Brother Watch]

Seton Motley -- NewsBusters-- January 18, 2010      Rahm Emanuel's joke - 'The First Amendment...It's highly overrated'     ...[Mark] Lloyd is a treasure trove of anti-First Amendment words and ideas. In 2007 while a Senior Fellow at the George Soros-funded, John Podesta-run Center for American Progress, he co-authored (with equally anti-free speech outfit Free Press) the ridiculous "report" entitled The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio... [See Rahm Watch]

Joseph Farah -- WorldNetDaily.com -- December 24, 2009     Help me knock out CAIR in Round 1    It's the story you won't hear about anywhere else. -- The media, from Fox News to CNN to ABC and the New York Times, are all pretending there is no threat to the First Amendment being made by the Council on American-Islamic Relations -- the Muslim Brotherhood's walking, talking public-relations factory...

Joseph Farah -- WorldNetDaily.com -- December 19, 2009      End of free press?    Will globalism spell the end of free speech and freedom of the press? -- I wrote a book a few years ago called "Stop the Presses! The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution." -- In researching a chapter on the history of the free press, I was surprised to learn just how short and spotty that history is... [See NWO Treason Watch]

Mark Hyman -- American Spectator -- November 30, 2009      The plan to silence dissent    ...The Obama Administration declared war on the minority of media outlets that do not worship the political left's newest false idol immediately after Obama was sworn in. Three days into his presidency Obama warned Congressional Republicans against listening to radio host Rush Limbaugh...

New York Post -- November 17, 2009     Lou Dobbs: My downfall at CNN started when Obama became president    ...Dobbs, who had come under fire from [open-borders zealots] because of his on-air, anti-[illegal] immigration stance, told Bill O'Reilly Monday on the Fox News Channel that he never heard directly from CNN management that he made the network look bad - but there was a tonal change when Obama became President...

Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga. -- November 1, 2009      Net Neutrality: Fairness Doctrine to be applied to Internet     After moving to take control of just about every aspect of your life, the Obama-Pelosi regime is about to clamp-down on all conservative thoughts and expressions by applying the so-called Fairness Doctrine to the Internet. -- A few days ago, the FCC, under the leadership of Barack Obama's recently appointed Chairman, Julius Genachowski, voted to move forward...

Michelle Malkin -- October 28, 2009      Obama's FCC, liberal churches, and the "media justice" mob    My syndicated column today probes the FCC/left-wing church alliance to silence conservative critics of illegal immigration through "hate speech" regulation. Tip of the iceberg. -- Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator first broke the story of how United Church of Christ officials met with kindred spirit/FCC Commissioner Michael Copps earlier this month... [See Obama Watch]

Colleen Raezler -- Culture and Media Institute -- October 28, 2009      CNN, MSNBC hail hate crime legislation; ignore consequences for free speech    After Oct. 28, the federal definition of hate crimes will now include crimes against individuals or groups based on gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability. -- President Barack Obama will sign the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act on Wednesday...

Tom Tancredo -- WorldNetDaily.com -- October 24, 2009     Hate-crimes law: Another attack on free speech    ...Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., wrote a letter to the secretary of commerce complaining that he hears the words "'illegal-alien lobby,' 'amnesty agenda,' 'criminal illegal aliens'... broadcast on our nation's television, radio and Internet outlets," and demanded the Commerce Department produce a study of "the relationship between telecommunications and hate crimes."

NoWorldSystem.com -- October 23, 2009      Hate crime bill Is A trojan horse against free speech    The U.S. Senate has passed the homosexual hate-crimes bill and will now send it to President Obama to sign it into law. This bill is a trojan horse to legitimize the creation of more laws that will completely obliterate the 1st amendment of the United States...

Marc Lamont Hill -- Metro.us -- October 15, 2009      Fox News buffoon says it's time to revive the Fairness Doctrine    Recently, the Center for American Progress released a study that confirmed what many of us already knew: The nation's radio airwaves are dominated by conservative talk. -- According to the study, 91 percent of news/talk radio programming is comprised of conservatives...

CNS News -- October 14, 2009      FCC Commissioner find 'Diversity' Chief's free-speech ideas "troubling"    Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell said Tuesday that statements about regulating freedom of speech in broadcasting made by FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd are "troubling." Everyone should be concerned when federal regulators have the power to impact freedom of speech, McDowell added. [Lloyd is one of many disturbing Obama pals]

Radio Ink -- September 25, 2009      Honig defends worrisome FCC "Diversity" Czar    In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, David Honig, who serves as executive director of the Minority Media & Telecommunications Council, defends FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd, whose writing on radio have caused some controversy. -- Honig writes, "Some have suggested that your Chief Diversity Officer, Mark Lloyd, is not qualified because in 2007 he co-authored a book..."

Radio Online -- September 25, 2009      McDowell: Localism could be New Fairness Doctrine    Speaking at the National Religious Broadcasters Capitol Hill Media Summit on Thursday, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell spoke on the possible return of the Fairness Doctrine. Even though the Obama Administration and Chairman Genachowski oppose reviving the doctrine, he feels that...

Amy L. Geiger-Hemmer -- Lake Country Reporter -- Hartland, Wisc. -- September 23, 2009      Humana "called out" by the Obama Administration    Chicago thug politics are alive and well in the Obama White House. In an effort to squelch any and all opposition to Obama's attempts to take over the entire health care system, the Health and Human Services Department is targeting Humana. Humana, one of the largest major health insurance providers, is geared mostly towards senior citizens... [Related item]

Dr. Peter Breggin -- Huffington Post -- September 12, 2009      Michael Savage: Irrepressible canary in freedom's mineshaft    ...The attack on Michael is the cutting edge assault on freedom of speech for independent and courageous political analysts. As a psychiatrist who has spoken truth to authority, I know firsthand the effects of intimidation and have seen the spread of effect resulting from attacks on me...

Harry Hurley -- Shore News Today -- Seaville, NJ -- August 31, 2009      Left is taking radical steps in name of diversity    ...Another important area to keep a watchful eye on is the aggressive Obama use of appointed "czars." These czars possess tremendous power and are basically 100 percent unchecked. None were vetted. No FBI background checks. No advice and consent from the U.S. Senate... [See Obama Watch and AG Watch]

NewsMax.com -- August 31, 2009      Obama's diversity offensive against talk radio    Conservative talk radio continues to flourish, but there are troubling signs that the Obama administration is seeking to silence the free and open exchange of views on the public airwaves. -- Today 100 million people tune in to America's 2,000 talk-radio hosts each week, and the overwhelming majority of those hosts are conservative -- a fact that has irked the left for years...