Robert Mc Neece

'Machete' director Robert Rodriguez helms an episode of 'The Soup' (Fri, 10PM ET on E!), but is fired by host Joel McHale after his teleprompter

The man who helped put the issue of possible United Nations oversight of Internet governance back on the radar in the United States, stepped up his rhetoric Tuesday at a speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell told the audience that a move back to the regulatory model of the International Telecommunications Union - the UN-sponsored body that Russia and other nations would like to see put in charge - would lead to a nightmare scenario of bureaucracy and multi-government regulation.

Disney's Robert Iger got a 45% bigger bonus in 2010 (Phil McCarten/Reuters) Executives in the corner office now make 62 times more than the average worker, and that's just in bonuses alone.

MJ is owner of Perfect Sense Publishing, LLC, a St. Charles-based company specializing in community marketing and niche publications. Previously, she published weekly and monthly newspapers and various annual magazines for a St. Louis company, eventually creating the concept for and overseeing the life cycle of their community directories division.

The next time you meet up with Republican apologists, ask them if they ever heard of Phil Gramm, whose name is on the legislation that offered a blanket exemption from government regulation for the bank-concocted “securitization” of home mortgages into the collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps that are at the heart of the world’s economic crisis. And if you meet ex-Sen. Gramm himself, ask him if he still thinks we are “a nation of whiners” for thinking there is a crisis, as he asserted when he was heading the John McCain presidential campaign.

Chemical Dependency: A Systems Approach (3rd Edition) by C. Aaron McNeece, Diana M. DiNitto (Price: $99.29, Rating: 3.33, Pages: 592). Isbn: 0205342752, 9780205342754. Publisher: Allyn & Bacon. Publication date: 2004-07-30. (substance abuse, chemical dependency, systems approach, 3rd)

The Australian has confirmed that Attorney-General Robert McClelland will be holding a meeting with copyright advocacy groups next month and has invited some ISPs to take part. The meeting will reportedly be to negotiate more copyright ‘protection’ laws.

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell squared off Friday in a partisan clash of ideas to start the annual District gathering of the nations’ governors.