The Brass Monkey

Net Neutrality Equals Free Speech! Major corporations are about to launch an all-out attack on net neutrality. The lobbyists are circling Congress now. Giving Verizon, Time Warner or Google the right to slow the Internet traffic they choose, maybe deliver your e-mail tomorrow instead of today, is not a good idea. I have 150 channels [...]

After it came out that a Mosque was going to be built near ground zero in NYC there has been an up tick in violence against Muslems In the latest in a spate of anti-Muslim incidents over the last two days, an intoxicated man entered a mosque in New York on Wednesday evening and proceeded [...]

Our When The Music Moved a Generation site has two new albums. The first one is Grand Funk´s Closer To Home and the second one is Ssssh by Ten Years After. The Ssssh tracks are Bad Scene, Two Time Mama, Stoned Woman, Good Morning Little School Girl, If You Should Love Me, I Don´t Know [...]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is mobilizing members of the California National Guard as part of a federal effort to deter drug trafficking and illegal immigration along the border with Mexico. His order today supports President Barack Obama’s plan to have 1,200 National Guard troops support federal border protection, customs and immigration agents. This is the second [...]

The Parallels between the oil spill and immigration policy are both interesting and informative. Both were caused because government was/is not taking care of it´s business and enforcing laws and regulations. In both cases innocents were/are being hurt. In both cases the solution is to first plug the hole and then clean up the mess. [...]

We should hold criminally liable the senators, the representatives, the EPA administrator and the Department of Interior administrator under George W. Bush who allowed big oil to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without an adequate safety plan… The Obama administration should make public the minutes from the secret meetings that Dick Cheney held with [...]

The OP-ED column “Arizona Law is Un-American” by Sen. Eric Griego lacks facts and logic. This man was either absent or slept through history in school. Three times in modern history we have deported illegal immigrants: President Herbert Hoover, during the Great Depression,ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens in order to make jobs available [...]

Surprise, Surprise! According to a Fox News Poll taken a few weeks ago even Democrats favor the new Arizona illegal alien law, at least to let it play out to see if it works. The LA Times blog post is titled New poll: Now, even Democrats oppose repealing Arizona´s illegal immigrant law Here are a [...]

The perps use New Mexico phone books to pick names. The names selected for the scam then have a change of address form filled out and sent to the post office. Using this information they are also generating fraudulent documents to obtain drivers licenses which would be forwarded by the post office to out of [...]

Since 2008 officials in the Illinois attorney general’s office have counted more than 200,000 sex ads in the Chicago section of Craigslist alone. Last week, federal prosecutors accused members of the notorious Gambino crime family of using Craigslist to sell the sexual services of girls as young as 15 years old. Craigslist is expected to [...]

For the second time in the last 5 years New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has ordered National Guard troops to the states border with Mexico. The move comes as rising border violence involving illegal alien smugglers has spread across all states that border Mexico. Press Release: March 31, 2010 SANTA FE: Governor Bill Richardson, after [...]

PRESS RELEASE: Maricopa County, AZ) Maricopa County sheriff´s deputies arrested 24 more illegal aliens for felony state human smuggling charges last night during two separate traffic stops. The arrests are a result of the unique policy of Sheriff Joe Arpaio who requires his deputies to arrest and process both smugglers and those being smuggled into [...]

The Question in a FOX News Poll: If American voters only had the following two choices on the Congressional ballot — keep all current lawmakers in office, or get rid of all incumbents in Congress — what would they do? Sixty-eight percent of voters would oust all incumbents, while 20 percent would keep all lawmakers [...]

We should remove our military from across the globe. When these policies were instituted, we were the largest creditor nation in the world. We are now the largest debtor nation in the world. Our infrastructure is crumbling, our education system is failing while we fight the rest of the world´s corrupt battles. The above opinion [...]

An ethics scandal involving allegations that he groped male staffers on various occasions has led to Eric Massa´s resignation. According to the Washington Post. rumors began to circulate in the his office that the married New York Democrat had sexually propositioned young male staffers and interns. Massa told Fox News host Glenn Beck that "not [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo are going to jump into bed together, well sort of. Microsoft´s plans to buy Yahoo´s internet search and search advertising businesses have been cleared by both European and US regulators. The BBC says, the European Commission ruled that the deal “would not significantly impede effective competition”. Under the deal, Yahoo´s website will [...]