MORE ON F.E.C. INTERNET REGULATION, from The Wall Street Journal:

When it comes to the law of unintended consequences, the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance “reform” is rapidly becoming a legal phenomenon. The latest example comes courtesy of the Federal Election Commission, where officials are being asked to extend the law to the very people it is supposed to empower: individual citizens. . . .

An idea kicking around the FEC a few years ago would require government to calculate the percentage of individuals’ electricity bills that went toward political advocacy (we aren’t joking). Another alternative would be to classify all bloggers as journalists, seeing as how the press is about the only entity exempt from McCain-Feingold. As much we enjoy our profession, we think a nation of journalists is overkill.

Overkill? I think it’s precisely what the First Amendment is about.

UPDATE: I’m not sure I’d take this approach, though.