Virginia Right!

We had quite a week here at the Watcher’s Council! As more than one member remarked, picking whom to vote for this week was extremely difficult because the entries, both Council and non-Council were really that just good. And to top it all off, yours truly was faced with an internet outage that took me […]

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The Pew Forum on Religion and Politics released a poll on Religion, Politics and the President  revealing that a substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined  and that most do not know what religion he follows. This must not sit well with the journ-O-list types. Look at how he editorialized  in this excerpt of supposedly straight reporting in an AP story . Americans increasingly are convinced – incorrectly – that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, and a growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion. In other words those who believe Obama to be a Muslim are wrong and those who are unsure about the presidents religious beliefs are dim-witted idiots wandering through life in a dazed stupor. Mr. Fram then goes on to insinuate that the poll is skewed by a political bias identifying the …

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Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

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