The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
AL FRANKENWe need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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