Say What? Senate Attacks Free Speech

I love Anne, the Backyard Conservative. She's put this one up for our attention, and it's scary. The Senate came very close to chilling the free speech of bloggers, which should scare EVERYBODY because had it worked, they'd go after some other form of free speech next. Here is an excerpt from Anne's post: A section of the Legislative Transparency bill in the Senate was narrowly defeated. It would have required bloggers, among others, to register as lobbyists if they engaged in efforts to reach more than 500 people to encourage them to contact their elected officials. So say you put your blog article in a newsletter and paid to send it out, like many grassroots groups do. Get the full stack of pancakes...