The FEC has decided that campaign finance "reform" doesn't apply to the Internet.

Bloggers would be entitled to the same exemption from the campaign finance law that newspapers and other traditional forms of media receive.

"There will be no second class citizens among members of the media," Toner said.

I fearlessly predict that McCain and Feingold, and some "members of the media," who do in fact think of the unannointed as "second-class citizens," and don't want to give up their monopoly on political speech, will be up in arms to get new legislation to end this "loophole."

I want to take this opportunity to thank the FEC for allowing me to exercise my constitutional rights with only minor restrictions.

Let's raise a glass and toast the tattered remains of the first amendment.