WND: Will bill give Obama control of Internet?

WORLD NET DAILY 4/4 (H/t: Patricia Anderson) - A pair of bills introduced in the U.S. Senate would grant the White House sweeping new powers to access private online data, regulate the cybersecurity industry and even shut down Internet traffic during a declared "cyber emergency." Read more at WND... Read More......

Inaugural: A 'Responsibility' Era

WSJ OPINION JOURNAL - A pragmatic call to Americans to lift our national game.

Whatever your partisan inclinations, the sight yesterday of two million Americans cheering the peaceful transfer of power to a new President should stir some patriotic pride. Mr. Obama more than met the moment with an Inaugural Address that invoked America's historical purposes and optimism, as well as a bracing challenge to lift -- as he might put it in a less formal setting -- our national game.


We were especially taken with President Obama's call for "a new era of responsibility." This is the phrase his press folks had leaked the day before, and if they did so to drive the theme home, so much the better. This is a useful message for Americans of all walks of life to hear -- from Wall Street CEOs to unmarried fathers to AARP lobbyists in Washington. The prosperity of recent decades has produced a culture of entitlement and sometimes even of complacency. Read full article at WSJ...

See AP photos of the Inauguration at The Frame (Sacramento Bee)...

Read Mark Steyn's response to Tom Brokaw's clueless reference to the Velvet Revolution... Read More......