Today, in a hearing room before (maybe) 50 people and with no "media elite" reporters present, a Congressional subcommittee finally pulled the curtain back on the single most effective counterfinancing measure in this decade, the joint Defense-Treasury counterthreat financing initiative. After cover...

High-tech trade association COMPTEL announced Wednesday that its president, Matt Salmon, has resigned and will join Policy Impact, whose clients include General Motors, Prudential and T-Mobile. COMPTEL CEO Jerry James will continue to provide leadership over the group's public policy initiatives and...

A reader writes: I know Chas Freeman. More accurately, I've met him a few times and run in similar--if not as lofty--circles. I just want to make one point: Chas is the kind of guy who, after you hear him speak, you always wish had power and influence. However, after you hear him speak, somehow you ...

A reader writes: I like Obama a great deal. But I think you are giving him a bit too much credit when you say that jettisoning Freeman was part of a rope-a-dope strategy to eventually reassess Middle East policy. Obama's a go-along-get-along kind of politician. He doesn't take risks unless he absolu...

A reader writes: I'm in my late 20's, and have spent the past 6 years working in systems engineering and operations.  I've worked my way up the ladder to the point that the next logical jump is a management role. The current economy means that the jobs that I would have been applying for had I ...

Conor Clarke bumped into the raving Jew-hating traitor on the bus this morning....

Recently appointed FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz wants to work with Congress on reauthorization legislation this year that he believes will make his agency more effective. He told a Center for Democracy and Technology gala Tuesday night that the quality of the FTC's work is being strained as the quanti...

Greg Sargent reads the NYT's half-assed article on Freeman....

Newspapers are peasants in the digital kingdom - at least its ruler appears to be fairly benevolent The news that Google is spending $7m on newspaper ads all round the world makes me, as a newspaper journalist, feel as if it were Christmas: but a snowy, cold Christmas, and I am a peasant whom King W...

My, how well organized Google was to announce their new behavioral ads in content targeting offering. To the public at large, VP Product Management Susan Wojcicki provides the official explanation of why digital advertising is good, how Google tries to make the ads relevant, and what behavioral targ...