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Most of the public has no idea that a political battle has been brewing in Washington over the idea of Net Neutrality:  the principle that your Internet Service Provider sells you unedited access to the internet.  No matter what site you visit, you get the same speed downloads from that site as you would any other.  However, in recent months, some of the big ISP’s (who also happen to be phone and cable companies) have announced plans to throttle your bandwidth when you use certain services (like voice-over-internet calls, or video downloads) from the web.  Needless to say, this exposes a major conflict of interest on the part of your ISP.

This video (from 2007), does an excellent job of explaining just what Net Neutrality is and what the current threats to our online freedoms are:

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Right on the heels of my diatribe about anti-Muslim bigotry comes this post (once again from God’s Politics! Yay Jim!)

I Love My Name (by Omar Al-Rikabi)

Two points in this article that are delivered with much more eloquence than my feeble attempts:

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OK people: If you get one of those stupid e-mails proclaiming that Obama is a (gasp) Muslim and therefore, just a step or two away from handing the country over to al Qaeda or some other bull$*!+ like that, look no further than Jim Wallis’ post over on God’s Politics.

Even better, read Barrack’s own words in his book, The Audacity of Hope

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