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National Guard Deployed to Gulf Coast

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

I was listening to the radio this morning and heard that National Guard troops from Virginia (and I’m sure other states) are being sent down to the Gulf coast to help with hurricane Katrina response. It’s nice to see our National Guard being used for its intended purpose- domestic use. Without getting into the whole can of worms of the Iraq situation, it always has struck me wrong that we were sending National Guard personnel abroad to fight a war. Army Reserve is one thing, but that’s not the purpose of the National Guard.

So…good to see them doing what they’re supposed to be doing for a change.

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C-SPAN is Podcasting

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Apparently C-SPAN is jumping on the podcast bandwagon with a beta podcast site. Very cool!

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Politics Roundup – .xxx TLD and Cindy Sheehan

Friday, August 26th, 2005

First up, I was reading this piece on boingboing about the Bush administration’s concerns about going forward with the already ICANN-approved .xxx top level DNS domain. In addition to the boingboing entry, I’ve seen stories on slashdot, and other places as well.

Michael Gallagher, assistant secretary at the Commerce Department says:

“The Department of Commerce has received nearly 6,000 letters and e-mails from individuals expressing concern about the impact of pornography on families and children.”

I don’t get it. First let me state my position, I am a Republican but an honest conservative and I don’t see how it’s governmernt’s business to decide what should or should not be on the Internet in any case. I think all porn all the time is fine if that’s what the market decides.

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