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The report, “Beach Books: What Do Colleges Want Students to Read Outside Class?”, surveyed 290 colleges and categorized their summer reading lists in broad terms, such as “multiculturalism, immigration and racism” (the most common category chosen by colleges), or “environmentalism, animal rights and food” (the second largest liberal category selected by colleges). The study found that “the choices by and large reflect leftist political perspectives.”

House Democrats now claim to be “within striking distance” of the votes they need to sharply restrict the rights of organizations to participate in election campaigns — despite a recent Supreme Court finding that such legislative restrictions are unconstitutional.

Cut out the middle-woman and install Obama’s teleprompter on the Morning Joe set.
Give her high marks for candor: on today’s show, Mika Brzezinski admitted that she has been “working with the White House” on oil spill talking points.

Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation’s homeland security chief said Friday. Is there anything this administration doesn’t want control of? Oh yes, the southern border.

These thinly disguised efforts to control news and information are coming from several directions in this administration. The FCC as Net Neutrality’ exposed here, the FTC and congress with the DISCLOSE Act. Keep the government out of the propaganda business.

Top Democrat campaign leaders have sponsored a bill to shut down political ads against them. This bill exempts Democrat supporting unions from its onerous rules.

‘The New Right’ portrays conservatives as racists, terrorists, and conspiracy theorists. Some Tea Party leaders are calling for conservatives to boycott MSNBC’s advertisers, after the network ran a documentary on June 16 that they say unfairly slandered the movement.

The White House has begun a summerlong effort to rehabilitate the damaged image of the $862 billion Recovery Act, arguing that Americans are finally beginning to see the effects – even as the administration is struggling to get Congress to agree to another round of stimulus spending.

Disappointment does not come from opponents; it comes from friends.

“The American public really has no idea how devastating these policies are going to have on free speech and the Internet,” says a Republican Senate staffer. “If they are able to impose these regulations, they would be able to impose a host of different regulations that would limit free speech online and essentially give the left the upper hand. First the auto industry, then health care and the financial services industry, now this.”