For reasons of its own AOL recently released a ~450 mb file containing three months of search records for 650,000 AOL users. They took it offline fairly quickly, but by that time the file had already crossed the globe seventeen or eighteen times. Christian Beckner at Defensetech writes (formatting his): People are already poring through …
Zarqawi’s Death: Good News For Al Qaeda?
One of the more perceptive folks whom I have known in my limited experience in online politics, Ian Welsh has a unique perspective on Zarqawi’s death and current trends in the mideast in general: All of this is very good news for the West – drying up bin Laden’s money didn’t exactly stop the idea …
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Fristed Again
Since there isn’t much that the government can do about the price of international oil in the short term, responses to price spikes usually follow a predictable template with slight variations for party. Get tough on OPEC, draw down the Strategic Reserve, drill ANWR (usually GOP), combat price gouging (Dem). New ideas come along once …
God’s Revenge
God got Tom DeLay: copy of the still-unfinished film, entitled The Big Buy, was obtained by National Review Online Friday. On several occasions in the film, Earle engages in monologues on what he believes is the sinister effect of money in politics. “The root of the evil of the corporate and large-monied interest domination of …
Iraq Round-Up
Once again, we have hosed the Kurds and appear to be tactily endorsing enshrining Sharia in the Constitution: U.S. diplomats have conceded ground to Islamists on the role of religion in Iraq, negotiators said on Saturday as they raced to meet a 48-hour deadline to draft a constitution under intense U.S. pressure. U.S. diplomats, who …
Like I Said
Yesterday, I wrote: I think this is the last time I am going to discuss this issue, because as careful as I have been to not say anything about Cindy personally, the jackasses on the far left are going to distort this post, lie, vilify, and attack anyway, and it just isn’t worth it to …
Lot’s of Stupid Stuff Today
Seems like my birthday seems to be a focal point of stupidity (no surprise there), so here are several stupid things all wrapped up in one post. 1.) The first comes via Misha and is a visual: Syrian journalists on Monday, June 20, 2005, make TV images of the fence built by Syrian border soldiers …