Announcing the Launch of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund

Will HuffPost be providing a "tips hotline" on line for people to post suggestions for investigation?



If so please offer two options for "tipsters" (1) post with name and number and (2) place system that strips IP address and any identifiers from those tips to be posted as "anonymous".



Paul
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Announcing the Launch of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund

It will also become very important to block suggested legislation that would strip all but full time journalists from the protections agains being forced to reveal confidential resources.



Journalism should not be defined by how much the writer makes or if they are paid at all. Journalism should be defined by the art, not by any SIC code. With the decline of printed media and the explosion of digital news, all of the First Amendment protections journalists have enjoyed while working for "corporate media" need to be codified and protected in the federal statues> These must make it clear that anyone who writes and in so doing, uses a confidential source to expose wrong-doing, is afforded the same protections as would any journalist regardless of their pay or employment status.



Freedom of Speech and the public's right to know is protected by this right and our freedoms apply equally to all.
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Everyone Gets a Bonus from Obama's Net Neutrality Plan

AMEN ! I wish I could increase and bold the font here !



As a small internet company, Net Neutrality protects my business from the giants who would trample me and leave me with no income so they could line their already bursting pockets.



If either I or my web customers found themselves and their web sites shoved off to the side to make way for the big companies who can afford to pay the "tolls" some ISP's have contemplated, it would spell the end of entrepreneurs on the internet.



Content that could not be seen would vanish. The content on the internet would decrease and the choices we have now would decline. What we would see would be more biased and controlled just as many media outlets are under individual rule.



Public decent and political opinions would find it hard to be heard if they were relegated to the slow, hidden backwoods of the internet, leaving only corporate sanctioned comments easily available.



It would contribute to the dumbing down of America..and we are already doing that well enough, thank you.



Only a free interenet is a valuable internet...to us.
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Everyone Gets a Bonus from Obama's Net Neutrality Plan

AMEN ! I wish I could increase and bold the font here !



As a small internet company, Net Neutrality protects my business from the giants who would trample me and leave me with no income so they could line their already bursting pockets.



If either I or my web customers found themselves and their web sites shoved off to the side to make way for the big companies who can afford to pay the "tolls" some ISP's have contemplated, it would spell the end of entrepreneurs on the internet.



Content that could not be seen would vanish. The content on the internet would decrease and the choices we have now would decline. What we would see would be more biased and controlled just as many media outlets are under individual rule.



Public decent and political opinions would find it hard to be heard if they were relegated to the slow, hidden backwoods of the internet, leaving only corporate sanctioned comments easily available.



It would contribute to the dumbing down of America..and we are already doing that well enough, thank you.



Only a free interenet is a valuable internet...to us.
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GOP Budget Proposal: Massive Tax Cut For Wealthy

I'm from Ohio. I am ashamed anyone in that blue collar worker state would elect any republican to office.



If this is not more proof of their failed and biased thinking against the American workers who make up the vast majority of us and of his own constituents, I don't know what is.



I was a Republican in Ohio. My business partner was a legislator there. Back in the "old day" they did not try to do everything in their power to beat down the worker while pushing more and more wealth to the privileged few who happen to sponsor their campaigns.



When we go to the polls we vote, expecting the people we hire to represent us will do so. Too many in Congress kick us aside in favor of their wealthy patrons when they make their decisions.



I became a Democrat for this reason. Republicans betray the very people who elect them. More and more we see with our own eyes that making the rich richer does not convert to more jobs or better pay for the rest of us. They close our factories here and move our jobs over seas so they can keep even more of the profits for themselves.



Why should we give them more tax breaks to help them buy more factories in China or India? Why should we hand them billions in bail out money as a reward for screwing the American workers out of their futures, their savings and their homes?
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Pot Saved My Life, Mr. President

I very much disagree with Obama on this issue. Keeping pot illegal is outright stupid. The so called "War on Drugs" is causing far more damage then the drugs would. Many judges and law enforcement people are starting to see the light and some have openly advocated for legalizing not just pot but cocain and heroin as well.



I recently wrote some articles on this very subject and am in the process of writing to representatives to support legalization. Like you I have never smoked...not even tobacco. But I believe that as adults with access to factual information, we should have a right to make our own decisions. Pot is not toxic and does not kill, unlike tobacco and alcohol, which are legal and more addictive. We kill ourselves at a far higher rate with fat filled foods than with all the drugs combined.



Legalization would not only be a good economic decision, it would reduce crime, empty a lot of expensive prison cells and divert enforcement money to education and public works.



You can read my articles here: http://www.joethevoter.org/economy/15-stupidcongress.html

Drop in and DIGG me !
About Barack Obama
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A Disturbing D.C. Whodunit [Updated]

Watch campaign coffers and bank accounts for a sudden increase. AIG will surely reward whoever pulled the plug on bonus caps provision.



Obama is a step in the right direction but too many "good old boys" still remain in congress. Until we clean house there as well, not much will change to the better for the average American citizen. Congress is still filled with bought and paid for politicians.



This is not partisan. Many democrats are just as guilty of stepping on citizens in favor of big business interests.
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