Moonbattery (Free subscription) | yesterday | Other
The last few days have not been good for the People's Temple of Hope and Change, nor for its charismatic leader, whom many members regard as a god incarnate. Chairman Zero returned from Asia having accomplished nothing except looking like...
Michelle Malkin (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
" Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all. " - Paul Buchheit , creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook. Today, at our RealTime CrunchUp event in San Francisco, Buchheit and Threadsy founder Rob Goldman sat down for a chat with our own Steve Gillmor and Erick Schonfeld. The topic was: Can We Kill...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday | Other
Here's your first peek at the Levi Johnston photo spread that just went up on Playgirl.com [NSFW]. There's 20 photos in all and, as we said none show the whole package, so to speak. One more picture...
Michelle Malkin (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago | Other
Scripting News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago | Technology
Jay Rosen sent a link to a post on a BusinessWeek blog : "Does anyone know how to preserve and store our four and a half years of blog posts and comments?" Not sure what kind of blog it is, but saving the posts to a PDF (as mentioned on the site) isn't much of a solution. We hope each of us is creating a record. The time to think about how your words will last over time is before you're...
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
I was reading Mark Steyn , always one of the happiest things in life to do, and I thought of something when reading this line: “[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had] been brought before a military commission, and last December indicated he was ready to plead guilty, and itching for the express lane to the 72 virgins.” This reminded me of something a public official once told me, something that...
Effect Measure (Free subscription) | yesterday | Other
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health is reporting sporadic occurrences of a mutation in a portion of the flu virus that is involved with the process by which it attaches to cells. I use the word "sporadic" because at this point there is no evidence that the cases where the genetic change has been found are epidemiologically linked. Therefore we don't see it spreading from person to person...
Techdirt (Free subscription) | yesterday | Entertainment
Sherwin Siy (one of the few people who actually was allowed to glance briefly at parts of the proposed ACTA treaty, though under strict NDA) has written about yet another letter sent by the entertainment industry to the government in support of ACTA. This letter includes pretty much everyone who benefits from abusing copyright laws and is afraid of the internet: Advertising Photographers of America...
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
It's a fair question from a man who lost his son on 9/11: Mr. Holder said that he and his boss had not spoken in person about this decision. This matter only involves upholding the constitutional rights of Americans, establishing...
Arrowhead Pride (Free subscription) | yesterday | Sports
via upload.wikimedia.org Studebaker will step into the starting spot that for nine games has belonged to Mike Vrabel . For the Chiefs defense, losing the veteran linebacker is a big blow; he’s been one of the unit’s most consistent performers and he provided on-field leadership that is impossible to replace. When you put the numbers down on paper, it’s quite a change going from Vrabel...
Greg Mankiw's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday | World
From Harvard's Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna : Large changes in fiscal policy: taxes versus spending We examine the evidence on episodes of large stances in fiscal policy, both in cases of fiscal stimuli and in that of fiscal adjustments in OECD countries from 1970 to 2007. Fiscal stimuli based upon tax cuts are more likely to increase growth than those based upon spending increases. As for fiscal...
The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Sarah Palin may have the headlines. But Harry Reid has a health-care reform bill, and it is advancing. Indeed, with Saturday night's 60-39 Senate vote to open a historic debate on the measure, the movement humanize America's health-care system -- which began almost 70 years ago -- is closer to a congressional breakthrough than at any time in its history. "Ted would be happy," Reid said Saturday...
Hot Air (Free subscription) | yesterday | Other
Harry Reid plans a key procedural vote in the Senate this weekend, apparently trying to follow Nancy Pelosi's footsteps in jamming ObamaCare down the throats of a skeptical chamber before members can hear from their constituents. Unlike Pelosi, however, this vote will not be on the bill itself, or even ...
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago | Technology
T-Mobile (along with a number of overseas carriers) have had RIM’s BlackBerry Bold 9700 for some time now, and while we knew that the handset was shipping to those who AT&T considers “special” and “irreplaceable,” the rest of the collective masses have simply had to sit on the sidelines and wait. Thankfully, that whole bout [...]
