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From James in Seabrook, TX: This Car is Driven by The ECONOMY NOT a Liberal…. Thanks for your efforts and great blog! ...
From James in Seabrook, TX: This Car is Driven by The ECONOMY NOT a Liberal…. Thanks for your efforts and great blog! ...
The RNC has announced plans to focus on digital strategy and hire a chief technology officer by May 1, preferably one that "is maybe able to come in and change the way that we think," according to RNC spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski. If Kukowski hadn't added that...
Yesterday afternoon an error was made in server maintenance leading to the server going offline, but it was restored as of 8 a.m. this morning with very little loss of data. Unfortunately, the hosting company did a second restore which should not have taken place which...
“Buy when everyone else is selling.” From Warren Buffett on down, it’s a time tested approach to investing. It doesn’t mean purchase anything that comes along, or overpay, but it’s a contrarian approach to the madness of markets which tend to drive valuations to extremes for...
Mendacious Max Beyond Iron Dome Max Fisher, the blogger for the Washington Post who publicized the picture of Jihad Mishrawi has now responded to a new United Nations report that concluded that the rocket that killed Mishrawi's son was likely fired by Hamas. Originally he was...
A recent comment from an old post, Why America Should Care: Tom Joad March 11, 2013 at 6:53 PM I used to support native American causes. I never will again. The one really bright hope we have in the US congress you are attacking over something TOTALLY frivolous....
I’ll have some Freedom Fries with my Super-Sized Big Gulp, with a side order of Slurpee...
Maybe. As much as I would like to brag that we are so important we were targeted by top-tier hackers, which would prove that we matter to someone, no such luck. This was a self-inflicted wound. In the process of starting the process of making it...
Luddite with a cause...
Via Times of Israel: A Saudi newspaper says a ministerial committee is looking into formally dropping public beheading as a method of execution in the oil-rich kingdom. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where a death sentence results in beheading in a public square. The...
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Hispolitica has been launched by Javier Manjarres, who runs the great Shark Tank blog in Florida, as announced today: I’m proud to announce the re-launch of Hispolitica. Hispolitica brings a balanced journalistic approach to the issues and concerns of Hispanics in light of their increasing influence in the...
She will be the progressive cause of 2014. She will raise tens of millions of dollars from Hollywood and the netroots. The media will adore her. Snarky ads like this one run the risk of backfiring because they will allow her to play victim while trivializing...
1) More fallout over the Samira Ibrahim selection Robert Mackey has established himself as an anti-Israel activist. Following last week's revelation that Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim had been making antisemitic and anti-American comments, Mackey was back in business. He asked, Samuel Tadros, the scholar who had uncovered...
The lawsuit by Teresa Wagner against the former Dean of the University of Iowa's College of Law has received a lot of attention, a tortured procedural history (including a prior appeal) and confusing results. In the latest twist, a judge has denied Wagner's motion for a...
Been traveling for a couple of days. What did I miss? Updates: Noticed this, by someone who is a blogger at a major online publication's blog section, presumably gets paid for it and gets eyeballs from the publication's readership, and therefore can say things such as: Personally I have...
Al Gore was questioned Saturday at the SXSW festival about the sale of his Current TV to Al Jazeera, which as the interviewer noted, is owned by Qatar--a government largely funded by oil money. Gore replied that he placed the desire to make a "disruptive move"...
Chinese bureaucrats are under increased pressure to support Chinese-made car brands instead of the preferred luxury brands such as Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. Advertising Age reports: The combined market share for Chinese sedans and compact cars fell to a four-year low of 28% in 2012, according...