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Another Tomb Found!
James Cameron and The Discover...
2007-02-27 02:39:00 Another Tomb Found! James Cameron and The Discovery Channel are set to unveil a documentary ("The Last Tomb Of Christ") later this week. In it, they supposedly reveal the "discovery" of the coffin of Jesus of Nazareth, his wife Mary Magdelene, his mother Mary, and son Judah. This has about as much to do with genuine archaeological discovery as a six year-old digging up an anthill. Oven-baked More About: Other , Cover , Over , Another
Breaking/Exclusive: Shocking Photos from the Oscar...
2007-02-25 20:16:00 Breaking/Exclusive : Shock ing Photo s from the Oscars! Don't you just adore the outfits that the Hollywood elite are wearing this year? Yo quiero Taco Bell, darling. More About: Photos , Break
Uhmm... I guess they really don't support the troo...
2007-02-25 16:56:00 Uhmm... I guess they really don't support the troops A startling disclosure on popular leftist website DailyKos (hat tip and linkage: LGF). Here's one of several money quotes: ...it is certainly conceivable that at some point in the future, the Bush administration will be able to provide genuine evidence of Iranian aid to militant groups in Iraq. Will it then follow that an attack on Iran is More About: Port , Support , They , Real , Guess
I hate to say I told you so, but...
Charles at LGF...
2007-02-25 14:40:00 I hate to say I told you so, but... Charles at LGF observes that a certain band of --er-- leftwing "zealots" have ramped up their censorship of conservative posts on Digg. They do so by marking stories -- even if perfectly accurate and newsworthy -- as spam (such as this, this, and this). In August of 2006, I predicted the failure of Digg-style sites for general, politically-charged news. It More About: Hate , Hat , Arles , Told
How the mainstream media covered (up) the ACLU cas...
2007-02-25 04:56:00 How the mainstream media covered (up) the ACLU case A past chapter president of the ACLU was arrested for possession of videotapes that show unspeakable crimes against children. Bill O'Reilly of Fox News posed an interesting question: would the mainstream media cover this story? Or cover it up? To their credit, ABC wrote an in-depth story on Friday. As for legacy print media? Boston Globe: More About: Media , Main , Cover , Stream , Over 2006-12-01 01:01:13 Mainstream media engaged in running gun-battle with U.S. Forces Has there ever been a time in American history that the Department of Defense (or its predecessor, the War Department) was forced to mount "information operations" against the mainstream media? Not until recently, that much is certain. Over the course of the last five weeks, the DOD has been forced to respond to a variety of 2006-10-11 06:12:03 Kim Jong-Il Threat Level Advisory As a public service to you, our valued reader, we offer our Nork-focused threat level advisory. Our proprietary formula for determining the current threat level is, as you can tell, highly scientific, the product of decades of careful research and observation. 2006-10-06 17:42:05 Anna Diggs Taylor body-slammed by 6th Circuit In what is certain to crystallize as one of the harshest judicial rebukes in recent memory, the recent decision that held the NSA terrorist surveillance program unconstitutional was stayed, pending appeal. The original decision, on a case brought by the ACLU and heard by Jimmy Carter appointee judge Anna Diggs Taylor, has been termed "a lawless 2006-10-04 23:30:08 Salon: The telecom slayers Salon Magazine features a recap of the ragtag, ad hoc crew that banded together to defeat the major telecommunications carriers bent on turning the Internet into cable television. The war over net neutrality featured a bonfire of $100 million in public relations funds, YouTube videos, "astroturf" responses, and some of the biggest whoppers ever told. The carriers 2006-10-01 05:06:07 The laboratory experiment: Socialism Jay Nordlinger has published a letter he received from a former resident of South Korea: ...The Korean people may be the most ethnically homogeneous people on earth. About 60 percent have one of only three surnames: Lee, Kim, and Park. North and South Korea had the same history from the dawn of history until 1945. The Korean peninsula is small, and 2006-09-27 10:48:07 The NIE: sections the New York Times censored In upholding its rich tradition of censorship and national-security-damaging disclosures, the New York Times this week tried again to dent the GOP. The Times cherry-picked a few bits and pieces of the classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) document to portray the war on Iraq as inciting more terrorism. The NIE was released last April. It 2006-09-25 04:36:11 CBS: flogging books again (the Bush-bashing variety, of course) On Sunday, the television news show 60 Minutes featured a segment on the president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf. In the interview, Musharraf revealed a post-9/11 threat made by a Bush administration official. Richard Armitage, also noteworthy for his alleged involvement in the Plamegate fiasco, reportedly told Musharraf that if 2006-09-16 21:45:04 Democrats are the headliners at Al-Jazeera Building bridges to the Arab world? Not exactly... Al-Jazeera 9/9/2006: U.S. Senate rejects claim of Saddam-Al Qaeda ties ...The administration "exploited the deep sense of insecurity among Americans in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, leading a large majority of Americans to believe ? contrary to the intelligence assessments at the 2006-09-13 21:21:05 Gaming Digg The enormously popular Digg site is encountering some growing pains. The fast-growing technology news site allows users to submit links to stories and to vote on stories submitted by themselves or others. Those articles with enough "diggs" (votes) are promoted to the "front page." This democratic approach to article submission and promotion quickly catapulted Digg to the forefront 2006-09-12 15:15:03 An illustrated history of terror attacks prior to 9/11 The invaluable Powerline provides an amazing database that lists the major terror attacks that occurred during the Clinton administration. On January 25, 1993, Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fired an AK-47 directly into traffic waiting to enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, which killed two CIA employees. On February 26, 1993, 2006-09-07 20:39:55 Thought for the Day The Democrats have opposed developing the missile defense system that could protect us against the missiles that North Korea developed under the terms of the agreement that Bill Clinton negotiated with it in 1994. 2006-09-06 08:33:01 My 2006 Congressional Campaign Commercial Any GOP candidate may freely use this commercial. Cue tape. Cue talent. 3-2-1... action. The Democratic leadership -- represented by Harry Reid -- says that the war in Iraq is just a distraction in the war on terror. That the situation in North Korea has worsened. And that our relationship with Iran is more dangerous than ever. What Reid fails to 2006-09-06 08:33:01 Question for the day Now that DNC honoree Michael Moore is prominently featured in terrorist recruiting videos, can we officially name the far Left bank of American politics "the Hezbocrats"? 2006-09-02 14:06:01 U.S. Unemployment Rate Falls to 4.7% in August Hiring keeps chugging along as the U.S. hits a five year low for unemployment. Oh, and gas is down to $2.50 a gallon in the Midwest. I blame Bush. Boston Globe: Unemployment rate approaches 5-year low 2006-09-01 20:03:02 Black Duck CEO: F1000 Open Source Use On Fire The use of open-source software in large enterprise is exploding, according to Black Duck Software: Enterprise Open Source growth trends are off-the-charts, not simply for free downloads but for real use, says Black Duck Software CEO Doug Levin... To date, more than 250 F1000 firms use software compliance and management solutions from Black Duck, up 2006-08-31 13:57:01 Thought for the day One wonders... is Microsoft : Encyclopedia Brittanica as RedHat : Wikipedia? 2006-08-24 19:36:31 New York Times Op-Ed Page Explained CNet reported yesterday that Thomson Financial has turned to computers to write business stories. Software (CNet terms it "robo-reporters") will be used to crank out earnings stories. In fact, a company spokeperson announced that computers will be used to write increasing numbers of business stories for Thomson. It makes sense, since a program can punch out 2006-08-24 19:36:31 Thought for the day The JPost reports on an Israeli defense deal that comes on the same day Iran rejected calls to cease uranium enrichment (hat tip: Best of the Web): Israel signed a contract with Germany last month to buy two Dolphin-class submarines that will, according to foreign reports, provide superior second-strike nuclear capabilities... 2006-08-21 19:33:11 Steorn: the Free Energy Challenge however none will publicly go on record. In early 2006 Steorn decided to seek validation from the scientific community in a more public forum, and as a result have published the challenge in The Economist. The company is seeking a jury of twelve qualified experimental physicists to define the tests required, the test centres to be used, monitor the analysis and 2006-08-17 19:27:04 Exposing Earmarks: Sunlight Foundation The image is easy to conjure: fat-cat politicians of every stripe using leaf-blowers to dispense our money in the form of "earmarks." Finally, the Sunlight Foundation is leveraging the power of the Internet and a motivated community to bring light into the darkest corners of Federal spending bills. It has created a new platform where citizens can 2006-08-17 19:27:04 An open-source platform for real-time Democracy In the age of wikis, community-based news sites like Digg, discussion forums and blogs, is it natural to expect a change in how Democracies operate sometime soon? Consider our current form of Representative Democracy. Here in the U.S., we elect Congressional proxies who ostensibly vote on our behalf. But one downside of this approach is the 2006-08-15 19:24:06 Open Source Metasploit Improves Evasion H.D. Moore, author of the Metasploit Framework, spoke at BlackHat last week in his characteristically frank and humorous manner. The framework, one of several projects branded under the aegis of Metasploit, is a tool that assists in the development and execution of exploit code against remote machines. ...Few tools are freely available to security 2006-08-14 19:21:14 The plot: 9 plans, 29 terrorists, 2700 would-be victims Brendan Loy has assembled the details of the latest terrorist plot into a cohesive whole: A total of 24 individuals were arrested in Britain overnight... five still remain at large. Their plan was to smuggle the peroxide-based liquid explosive TATP and detonators onto nine different planes from four carriers ? British Airways, Continental, 2006-08-11 19:15:08 UK threat level increased to critical Pplease note the following message from the Home Secretary: Overnight the police, with the full knowledge of Ministers, have carried out a major counter-terrorism operation to disrupt what we believe to be a major threat to the UK and international partners. The police, acting with the Security Service MI5, are investigating an alleged plot to bring down 2006-08-11 19:15:08 UK Airline Terror Plot: More Details Emerge ABC News provides additional clarity around the UK Airline Terror Plot: ...The suspected terror plotters arrested in Britain had planned to conceal their liquid or gel explosives inside a modified sports beverage drink container and trigger the device with the flash from a disposable camera. ABC News has learned exclusively that the plotters planned to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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