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You've got to get through Ted Stevens first.

One response is to hide like a scared turtle. The other option is to KEEP POSTING, and encourage everyone and their brother and sister to do the same. Not just like-minded conservative bloggers, but even our buddies at DailyKos and what not. Why stop there? Get regular bloggers to link/post political material. If the FEC, or whomever tries to enforce this absurdity, realizes that there are more violations than you can shake a stick at, and that doing so would be enormously unpopular anyway, then I think they'll see that it's just plain untenable. Where's the ACLU when you need them? And where are those AoS shirts?

So in other words Markos has finally seen the evil that is McCain?

$5 newsletter? sign me up. Matter of fact, I think I'll go hit the tipjar and pre-pay....

While you're thanking McCain, be sure to thank the Supreme Court too. There is no clearer language in any of our founding documents than that found in the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." Yet in every opportunity it has had over the last 30 years to uphold free speech, Congress has instead upheld Congress-made laws abridging it.

At Vote for Judges, I've beat to death the proposition that it's time to do something about the courts. After this week's Roper decision, can there be any doubt left?

By the way, Ace, thanks for putting me on your blogroll!

If this ever comes up, the tongue-in-cheek approach is going to go a long way.

Put 500 links into Hillary's website at the end of each and every post. You can probably work up a lyric that is... exceedingly unflattering - but LINKS TO HER. So she has to report those links on her 'contributions in kind' list....

This is all so very insane. Maybe we can host sites out of Russia.

Let them try. The first blogger to be prosecuted is going to have quite a legal team coming to his aid. Lets make a list of prominent bloggers who are also lawyers or legal scholars of some repute. Send that list to the politicians supporting this and ask them if they really want this case on CourtTV.

Ace, if I do subscribe to your proposed newsletter, could you send it out as an email so that I don't have to, like, read it?

Those officious fucks.

Making "coordination" the mark of evil that turns freedom of speech and freedom of the press into in-kind contributions pits freedom of assembly and freedom of association against those other two freedoms. And isn't the freedom to "petition for redress of grievances" yet another form of coordination with the elected rulers? I count three freedoms the exercise of which make us liable to the scrutiny and regulation of two of our other freedoms.

Those merciless, twisted fucks at the FEC must stay awake nights thinking this shit up. Top bloggers who exercise their freedoms of assembly, association, and petition by associating with politicians won't be able to press [Enter] for fear of making a "coordinated in-kind contribution."

gnolotex,

I think I'll have to send you a physical newsletter, because they're apparently demanding that useless, old-technology prerequisite.

But you don't have to read it. Unless you want to know how high I've juiced my stats for my 23rd level Yuan-Ti Ranger, Sszessinthe of the Eternal Hunt.

...or if you want to know Ace's thoughts on the bodybuilding "muscle confusion principle."

... or if you want to know whether MILF Hunter has jumped the shark.

Important stuff like that.

I am new to reading blogs and don't know as much as most of you, so I may be missing something here, but it seems to me that it is obvious that McCain,et al seem to think that bloggers have a lot more power than the bloggers are aware of and therefore the brakes need to be put on them (the bloggers). It would seem to me the first step is figuring out what they are all so afraid of. The power is obviously there. Finding out what it is will help a lot.The other thing I do not understand is the comments made about a Senator in Alaska saying things about limiting porn on cable. First, of course, is why would a person in Alaska have any thing to say about what a person in a different state-or even a different house-can do. The solution here seems to me to get bloggers in Alaska to vote this man out of office. The same would apply to voters in Arizona with regards to McCain. Why is it that so many poiticians are career politicians? A government official who decides he will or will not "let" people do something in their own homes is someone who for what ever reason has an incredibly wrong idea about what his function is. Rather than wringing our hands and wondering how far they will take this -the people should be waking up and saying "whoa cowboy." They will take it as far as possible -just like bullies on a playground. The odd part is that they have the power only because they say so.
One more comment. I don't understand the excitement of being mentioned on CNN-Judy Woodruff. Recognition is fine, but to "sanitize" your blog to be acceptable for CNN seems like a
sell-out. I thought you were better than that. CNN should-and is-be concerned with impressing blogs-not the other way around. I may be over simplifying things but I truly do wonder why no one is asking what right these Senators have even saying these things rather than wondering how to get around these new threats they are making.

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