The Florida Highway Patrol is trying to obtain a search warrant for medical records of Tiger Woods to determine if the wounds the golf great sustained early Friday morning are consistent with a car accident or domestic violence. Authorities believe they can show probable cause a crime was committed, a necessary step in obtaining a warrant to search the hospital that treated him. That probable cause...
It isn’t even December yet, but Microsoft’s Bing search engine is already announcing its top ten most searched topics of 2009, as well as the two celebrities that were binged more than actress Megan Fox. The new Microsoft “decision engine” has only been in service since June, but Bing has apparently analyzed billions of search queries in order to create a list of the ten most...
Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe writes: I am not a great admirer of Peggy Noonan as a journalist. Most of the time, she aims at capturing a mood, and I generally find the lack of analysis and the sentimentalism so visible in her work offputting. There are, however, moments when she hits the ball out of the park, and she did so just a few days ago in The Wall Street Journal . Noonan began by...
Today’s elections in Honduras was a huge victory for democracy and a huge embarrassement for the former leftist President Manuel Zelaya and the Obama White House. Despite the fact that Zelaya urged Hondurans to stay home to protest the vote, the freedom-loving Hondurans turned out to vote in record numbers. A turnout of more than 60% was [...]
As you know, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham has taken a fair amount of flak for arguing that Dick Cheney should be taken seriously as a 2012 contender because he’s a “man of conviction” who has a “record on which he can be judged.” Here’s a data point that makes this fantasy seem even more far-fetched [...]
Good thing the PlayStation 3 dropped in price. The US Department of Defense ordered 2,200 more of the consoles to crank up their PS3 supercomputer, currently consisting of 336 of the devices in a Linux cluster. According to the official Justification Review Document (cache link) required for the purchase of the PS3s, the game platform, with its IBM Cell microprocessor, is a much better value for the...
If you’ve been eagerly waiting for the Crunchpad to be launched, you’re going to be disappointed at the news that the final version of the Crunchpad may never see the light of day. Apparently Fusion Garage, the company that Michael Arrington of TechCrunch teamed up with to build the CrunchPad reneged on their deal and are planning to see the CrunchPad directly. Of course, we haven’t...
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, has a unique way of viewing a global ministry. Warren sees his mission as being of a scope that does not stop at national borders. He seeks Purpose Driven Nations to comprise his Purpose Driven World. And Warren is not hesitant to interfere in international religious divisions or [...]
Apple has posted details on a new full-time position at its Cupertino headquarters for an iPhone Software Engineer who will join its newly created Maps team. On the job description web page, Apple says it wants to “…take Maps to the next level,” and “…rethink how users use Maps and change the way people find [...]
We gave you a glimpse of Apple’s Black Friday deals a bit early this year, and now, Piper Jaffray Apple-lover analyst Gene Munster has chimed in with some numbers to let us know exactly how the iVendor did. The world’s favorite iPod…
As a general matter, I think there are far too few uses of executive clemency, commutation and pardon in our current criminal justice system. But here's a case of one gone awry that may end up having real political ramifications....
Good thing ClimateGate broke before our moonbat rulers could find a way to control the Internet. Here's something you won't see on network news — Lord Monckton weighs in on criminal implications of the biggest scientific hoax in human history, which has now been definitively exposed: On tips from glenwood183 and JC. Hat tip: Theo Spark .
KLTV 7 East Texas sent out six Netflix DVD mailers for testing by the pathology lab at University of Texas to check for bacteria and diseases. We began our test by unsealing each Netflix envelope. We removed each disk from its sleeve, and the lab supervisor swabbed them front and back. Once each petri-dish was swabbed, the plates were placed inside an incubator. A few days later, we found at least...
Just about everything you need to know about U.S. foreign policy is in this short post by the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder: President Obama convened a last-minute meeting of his national security team tonight to discuss the language that his administration will use to describe its new strategy for Afghanistan. Two administration sources confirmed that the meeting, which began at 5:00 pm, included cabinet...
