Rep. Bobby Rush spoke about the future during  speech at the MMTC conference last week.  He recently lost to Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) in the race for telecom ranking member, he was elected to lead Energy and Power instead. Some of his speech touched on the campaign launched by the group Color of Change against him during his bid for the post on the telecom committee. According to an article on the hill.com he thanked [...]

If you have read any of the technology or political news over the last weeks you most likely have seen that The FCC commissioner is  going to present his long awaited Net Neutrality proposal to the his commission and to the world this month. Organizations such as free press are already saying it’s not extreme enough ( Even though I’m not sure how they can say that when it’s not even out yet) and making [...]

I had several initial reactions to your piece but I knew that others would have knee-jerk, emotional reactions as people often do, and that type of reaction normally fuels these policy debates, but we never really get to real facts. Your article really only brings two feelings for me, and those are confusion and concern. First, I’m confused about what your goals are here. I’ve watched you write articles, give speeches and have even sat [...]

This post originally appeared on the huffingtonpost. You can see that post here After months of heated debate, intense partisan jockeying, goo-gobs of rhetoric being spun left and right and an exhaustive litany of hearings, comments and ex parte filings, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski finally announced that the Commission will, in fact, be voting on net neutrality rules during its December 21 meeting. While the official Order has yet to be released, it seems that [...]

If you haven’t noticed, the FCC has encouraged lots of people by its latest approach on the Net Neutrality issue.   The commissioners’ have offered what seems to be a good attempt to, as the NAACP frames it, “promote rules that safeguard the civil rights, free speech and economic opportunity for our nation’s most vulnerable.”  The Rev. Jesse Jackson says the Rainbow Push Coalition is”confident that by reviewing any subsequent  (FCC) rules or order and continuing [...]

We have a tradition in our house. Every year my wife and I go out early on Black Friday just to say we were in the mix. We rarely buy anything but we always have stories to tell about what we see and what people are willing to do to get the best deal. This year the stores appeared to up the ante by opening as early as 10pm on Thanksgiving night and some stores [...]

I recently wrote a post on Politic365 about Color of Change’s attacks on Bobby Rush. You can read about it here. http://politic365.com/2010/11/19/color-of-change-challenges-rushs-bid-for-ranking-member/

Over the last few days there has been a lot of chatter on the Internet that points to the notion that the FCC is working to approve Net Neutrality regulations before the end of the year. There are a few things about this that cause me to wonder about it. The timing of all of this is interesting because it comes in the wake of a tumultuous midterm election and subsequent pledges by policymakers to [...]

This post originally appeared on the huffingtonpost. Now that the midterm elections are over I’ve been reading all the reactions from voters and have noticed a trend. A lot of people have openly admitted that they voted for a candidate that opposes President Obama’s policies just to send a message; also admitting that candidate was less qualified and that they essentially did it for spite. Once that really started to sink in, I thought about [...]