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The FCC has announced its plans to deem and pass Net Neutrality. Specifically, The FCC will defy a court order to stop regulating the Internet by nonsensically deeming the Internet not to be an information service, and regulate it under Title II of the Communications Act. That sounds mild but it has disastrous consequences. Title II of the Communications Act gives the FCC strong and broad powers. If the FCC is allowed to put the Internet in the US under those powers, then the Obama administration will have total power to tax Internet users, regulate content on Internet servers, and...

U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday the United States will cut the number of its nuclear weapons and reduce their role in national security. "Our forthcoming Nuclear Posture Review will move beyond outdated Cold War thinking and reduce the number and role of nuclear weapons in our national security," Obama said in a statement on the 40th anniversary of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The Obama administration is expected to issue the new nuclear strategic guideline by the end of this month.