Policy
Just when I think William Safire is a complete wanker, he goes and writes something like this: "The concentration of power — political, corporate, media, cultural — should be anathema to conservatives. The diffusion of power through local control, thereby encouraging individual participation, is the essence of federalism and the greatest expression of democracy."

If those were the beliefs that so-called conservatives actually acted upon, I'd call myself a conservative too.

All this comes in the context of discussing FCC Chairman Michael Powell's relentless drive to remove the last barriers to total consolidation of the media by a few congolomerates. Dan Gillmor, Larry Lessig, and Glenn Reynolds point to various facets of this issue here, here, here, and here.