by Anthony Perlingos

Created on: November 01, 2009   Last Updated: November 02, 2009

We are all watching the size of Government grow exponentially daily. We have upwards of 35 czars in Washington DC and that number Is sure to grow. And so invariably the conversation is starting to be heard about restarting the fairness doctrine. Now I personally have to laugh at such a dichotomy in terms as the White House this week was trying to keep Fox news out of the press conferences. Which is why I give a hearty salute to the other news services attending those conferences. As they all collectively drew a line in the sand and told Obama's administration that this type of attempt at censorship is out of bounds. And promised to walk out if Fox news was not included in the press conference. You gotta have a pretty thick skin to be President , and if this is any indication of this President's toughness it's gonna make the last 8 years of Dubya seem like a picnic. The only thing missing was a black van to whisk off Sheppard Smith. Thank God we have not become North Korea or China yet! But it looks like we are well on our way.

Our Government is responsible first and foremost to defend and look out for the welfare of its people. A Government is however not responsible for bailing out the financial elite, telling someone how much they can be paid, what kind of low emission car they can drive and certainly not what the general population is allowed to listen to over the airwaves! For starts this flies in the face of our first amendment which absolutely guarantees freedom of the press regardless of where you stand politically. I do not agree with most of the slop that is called news in the LA and NY Times, however I like getting my coupons and looking at the box scores in the sports section so both papers still provide that invaluable service to me. Secondly prior to writing this little blurb here I carefully looked at the title it will be written under and I believe that control is absolutely the objective the Government is trying to achieve. Except that they substitute the word "fairness" because that has a much nicer connotation to it. I mean that may ruffle a few feathers if they call the fairness doctrine what it really is CENSORSHIP!

To begin with let's take a look at the head of the office of information and regulatory affairs. (Yes this office exists!) or more commonly known as the regulation czar! (I feel like I am in a Tolstoy novel) Cass Sunstein. Cass Sunstein believes that animals should have the right to sue in court for mistreatment. And this is

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