The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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