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| Mar 10, 2021 | Editorial Roundup: US | Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
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The Virginian Pilot & Daily Press on marking one year since the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 was a global pandemic:
Where were you when t... |
| Feb 14, 2017 | The Real Constitutional Danger | It is more than a little amusing, in light of the events of the last week, that we still see concerns about whether “we’re in a constitutional crisis” due to excessive presidential power, and about “how much … the early days of the Trump ad... |
| Oct 29, 2016 | James Comey, Hillary Clinton, and the Email Investigation: A Guide for the Perplexed | Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey threw the presidential election campaign into turmoil with a letter to Congress declaring that the Clinton email matter was, perhaps, not entirely done after all.
Ben analyzed this disclosure yesterday, a... |
| Aug 24, 2016 | Now, the gloves are off in the EpiPen saga | The retail price point now tops $600 for a two-pack, even though the dose of epinephrine inside costs about $1, according to Consumer Reports.
Adding fuel to the fire, it’s been revealed that Mylan CEO Heather Bresch has seen her total comp... |
| Jun 24, 2016 | Tying Rights To Useless 'Terrorist Watchlists' Is A Terrible Idea | No matter how you may feel about the Second Amendment or firearms themselves, there’s no way you can feel comfortable with access to Constitutional rights being predicated on something as worthless as the government’s ever-expanding “you mi... |
| Jun 3, 2016 | Hillary Clinton's National Security Speech Was a Grim Preview of How Shitty This Election Will Be | Hillary Clinton giving a national security speech on Thursday in San Diego. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Earlier this week, Hillary Clinton's campaign promised that she would deliver a major national security speech in San Diego on Thursday. She ... |
| Dec 9, 2014 | Sen. Warren is right: Blacks and Hispanics were targeted by subprime policy | To the progressive wing of the Democrat party, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is The Lady Who Would.
She Would be the woman they want to knock Hillary Clinton out of the 2016 presidential nomination. She Would have been the woman they want... |
| Jul 28, 2014 | Finding Private Bowe Bergdahl - Part 2 | Bowe Bergdahl. AP Photo/US Army
This is the second installment of Robert Young Pelton's account of his involvement with the 2009 search for Private Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan. Read the first part here, and skip ahead to the third part her... |
| Jun 19, 2014 | 2001 and 2002 AUMFs as Basis for Iraq Strikes? | Various reports of the President’s meeting with congressional leaders (e.g here and here – note especially Pelosi’s comments) suggest that the administration believes that the 2001 AUMF (post-9/11) and the 2002 AUMF (that was the basis for ... |
| Jun 6, 2014 | HUD spokesman suggests Bergdahl squad could be psychopaths | [Update 1: Updated to include Friedman's response.]
Brandon Friedman is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
On his Twitter feed, the Obama administration spokesman chose... |
| May 5, 2014 | Healthcare.gov: How Washington's IT project Leviathan failed us, and here's how we fix a broken system | Government IT projects have a tendency to fall on their rear ends more often than not. After the miserable debacle that was Healthcare.gov last October, I made the case for why the larger than life public face of Obamacare had zero chance o... |
| Jan 16, 2014 | A third of registered cabbies in San Francisco are now driving for Uber, Sidecar, or Lyft | In San Francisco, where Uber and Lyft got their starts, resistance to these services seems futile.
While taxi drivers may be striking against the “unfair competition” in Paris, one-third of cabbies in San Francisco have ditched their regist... |
| Dec 20, 2013 | Rep. Peter King Says It's A Disgrace To Call Out James Clapper For Lying To Congress | Rep. Peter King’s willingness to continually go to bat for the surveillance state, no matter how ridiculous he looks, is quite impressive. As you recall, King used to be a major terrorist supporter — when those terrorists were his friends i... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Sweden Insists On Fire Alarms On Hotel Made Of Ice | In these highly charged political times, you tend to hear the term “nanny state” thrown around quite a bit. Whether it’s the mayor of a major US city lovingly playing psy-ops with citizens on vices like cigarettes and soda, or an otherwise ... |
| May 7, 2013 | WordPress’ Share Of The World’s Top Blogs Increases | The majority of the world’s top 100 blogs are using WordPress, according to a new report from Pingdom, and the content management system’s share of these blogs is on the rise.
According to the firm, 52% of these blogs are using WordPress, u... |
| Feb 13, 2012 | Reddit tries to crack down on child pornography with new rules banning suggestive subreddits | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Running a massive online community is a tricky bu... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Everyone at Le Web is Wrong: Wikileaks Should be Condemned not Celebrated | Le Web. I’m still unclear on the unique selling point of Europe’s “leading technology conference”, and yet here I am, for the third year in a row, hanging out in a snow-bound venue four hundred miles from the centre of Paris, watching a suc... |
| Nov 19, 2010 | TSA Likely To Face Multiple Sexual Assault Charges For New Searches | Think the complaints about the TSA are beginning to reach a tipping point? There’s a whole bunch of new news on this front, starting with a California district attorney saying that he’s ready to charge TSA agents with sexual assault if evid... |
| Aug 5, 2010 | Right-Wing Group Conspiring to Control Digg Uncovered | There’s something rotten going on at massive social news site Digg. A sprawling campaign of political conservatives working together on secret mailing lists to orchestrate systematic burying of news stories and other users believed to be po... |
| Jul 6, 2010 | Foursquare Launches Location Layers – This is Big | Looking at life through rose-colored glasses? How about walking through your town and seeing it as the Huffington Post or the Independent Film Channel sees it? IFC announced a new campaign this morning with leading location-based social net... |
| Feb 18, 2010 | Confirmed: Salem Buys Michelle Malkin's Hot Air Blog | Christian media company Salem Communications this morning confirmed reports that it had acquired Hot Air, the conservative blog started by author and journalist Michelle Malkin, for an undisclosed sum.
The news comes after Mediaite yesterda... |
| Now, the gloves are off in the EpiPen saga | Physicians have joined the brouhaha over the soaring price of Mylan Pharmaceuticals‘ EpiPen.
As has been widely reported, Mylan has hiked the price of the life-saving auto-injector for anaphylaxis repeatedly in recent years. NBC News said t... |
