‘politics’ Archives

Mainstream press throws Wikileaks under a bus in journalist shield debate

A new proposed federal journalist shield law is under debate in the USA, which sounds like a great idea, except that the traditional press have agreed to amendments that would exempt Wikileaks from any protection for its confidential sources, on the grounds that Wikileaks isn't journalism... ORLY? More generally, Lucy Dalglish, executive [...]

How A Good Samaritan Was Arrested For Driving Drunks Home

Some guy's friend gets killed by a drunk driver and he decides to do something about it. He starts a service to keep drunks off the road by offering free rides home. It turns out that Quincy, Illinois, is well stocked with semi-responsible drunks, so "business" booms. He adds another car to the service, and eventually a bus. Local taxi companies [...]

Judge Napolitano tells the truth about Wikileaks on Fox News

"at least newspapers go out of business when they lie, governments don't..." and he said that on Fox?

Al Franken: Net neutrality is foremost free speech issue of our time

Al Franken is a rare politician who, every time he speaks, seems to be defending _MY_ interests personally. Nice to feel important for once. If we learned that the government was planning to limit our First Amendment rights, we'd be outraged. After all, our right to be heard is fundamental to our democracy. Well, our free speech rights are [...]

Wikileaks posts “Insurance” file to website

I thought this stuff only happened in bad movies. The huge file, posted on the Afghan War page at the WikiLeaks site, is 1.4 GB and is encrypted with AES256. The file’s size dwarfs the size of all the other files on the page combined. The file has also been posted on a torrent download site as well. It’s not known what the file contains [...]

Everyone pay your taxes! Its the right thing to do (except for me)

This is just classic political hypocrisy... Massachusetts Senator John Kerry just bought a new $7 million yacht and it's causing a stir because of where he's docking it. The "Isabel" is parked in Rhode Island rather than at the Senator's summer home on Nantucket or in Boston Harbor, and because it's there he avoids paying a nearly $500,000 tax [...]

Is the media is using LeBron to hide collapse of USA?

Tom Woods’s Nullification: How To Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century

Citizens across the country are fed up with the politicians in Washington telling us how to live our lives—and then sticking us with the bill. But what can we do? Actually, we can just say “no.” As New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., explains, “nullification” allows states to reject unconstitutional federal laws. For [...]

Congressman Bob Etheridge assaults student on Washington sidewalk

"I have a right to know who you are" Um, no you don't.

BP Blocking Media Access?

This reporter needs an award because that was perfect. What do reporters get? Peabodys or something? We need to create an award we can send these guys. Something simple that says, "Ohh yeah, dude... Damn. Yeah. You're awesome!" Only... more eloquently. We could send them to reporters, professors, cops who make an effort to not be tools. Anyone [...]

Conservatives are largest porn consumers

I hate to be the one to point this out, but the study only shows that more people in conservative states pay for porn. I demand follow-up studies to determine: Is more porn consumed, or only more porn purchased online. Are religious conservatives consuming more porn, or are they just forcing regular viewers to get it from the interwebs? Do [...]

Washington Drug Agents Seize Pot Legalization Petitions

Washington drug agents have illegally seized signed petitions for marijuana legalization, according to organizers of ballot initiative I-1068. Marijuana advocacy group Sensible Washington says it has learned that a dozen signed copies of  the marijuana legalization initiative for Washington State of which it is the sponsor, were seized last [...]

Snarlin’ Arlen: The Switch

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India’s e-voting machines vulnerable to fraud

E-voting security researcher J Alex Halderman writes: India, the world's largest democracy, votes entirely on paperless electronic voting machines. There are an incredible 1.4 million machines in use. Authorities claim they are "tamperproof", "infallible", and "perfect," but they've prevented anyone from doing an independent security analysis by [...]

Congress Refuses to Outlaw Insider Trading For Lawmakers

Even a cynic can find Washington's hypocrisy shocking at times. The Wall Street Journal reports today a House bill that would force lawmakers to make greater disclosures on financial transactions and disallow them from trading on nonpublic information is going nowhere fast. That's right. Members of Congress are currently allowed to profit on [...]

anadian Prime Minister promises to enact a Canadian DMCA in six weeks

Months of public debate over the future of Canadian copyright law were quietly decided earlier this week, when sources say the Prime Minister's Office reached a verdict over the direction of the next copyright bill. The PMO was forced to make the call after Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore and Industry Minister Tony Clement were unable to [...]

Palin E-Mail Hacker Convicted on 2 of 4 Charges

Remember kids: guess a password, spend 25 years in jail. A Tennessee jury on Friday convicted the man who hacked Sarah Palin's e-mail account on two of four charges -- computer fraud and obstruction of justice. The panel did not find David Kernall guilty guilty of wire fraud. It deadlocked on an identity theft charge. The former University of [...]

Landing page for blocked sites in the UAE

This is the page you land on when you try to access Flickr, porn, or any other web sites that are banned in the UAE.

50 years in jail possible for 22-year-old David Kernell

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A former college student charged with hacking Sarah Palin's e-mail account fears some jurors in heavily Republican East Tennessee could be dazzled when the conservative star testifies. Jury selection begins Tuesday and Palin's testimony could soon follow in the case against 22-year-old David Kernell. He was a University [...]

Sarah Palin: Dangerous Lady

When speaking at an Ohio Right to Life fund raising event, last month, Sarah Palin said that when she was criticized for having several things written on her hand, at the Tea Party convention, she didn't have a good excuse. Now she has an excuse: God wrote on his hand, too. Palin said that a supporter sent her a quote from The Bible, Isaiah [...]