If you think Washington politics is restricted to the debates among politicians, think again.
Politics pervades everything. Washington is a gurgling swamp of people grasping for power and pursuing their varied interests. People don’t just get together and agree on the best policies for the country and move forward with them.
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I wrote here six weeks ago about how the telecommunications subsidy programs run by the Federal Communications Commission were poorly run and subject to waste, fraud, and abuse.
Well, evidently, the FCC got the message and has cleaned up its act! Or started to . . . . Or at least they did something.
Today, [...]
This time it’s not a politician to blame for making exaggerated claims. It’s one of these coalitions that spring up when a certain set of people want a certain set of goodies from the government.
The Coalition for Free Broadband Now wants the Federal Communications Commission to auction of some of the electromagnetic spectrum [...]