March 11, 2009
With the tremendous amount of finger pointing lately, it is hard to know if anyone is responsible for anything anymore. In a country where the people are supposed to be in charge of telling the government how it should be run, we have dropped the ball and have become dependent on that governme...
AriKona
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March 10, 2009
The French attempt to pass the world's toughest "graduated response" law against P2P file-sharers has been en retard for months. But the negotiations are finally over, the "Création et Internet" bill has been drafted, and today it finally came up before the National Assembly for debate. Despite fur...
Ars Technica
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nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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March 09, 2009
The sociology professor and moderate Democrat, writes about a book: "Adam Shepherd read Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed in college. As an experiment, she tried to live on minimum wage, and found it nearly impossible to feed, clothe, and, especially, house herself on minimum wage. Shepherd wond...
Booker Rising
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Shay
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Amid hard times, oil companies are starting to improve upon their inefficiencies and hopefully the upgrades may prove to be a boost to their shares, along with related exchange traded funds (ETFs). Many oil companies are reducing budgets, closing wells and throwing out long-term contracts, report......
ETF Trends
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Max Chen
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March 07, 2009
You know that “Watchmen” motion comic that was put out just prior to the movie, animating many of the pivotal sequences of the story and bringing them to a sort of “still life?” Everything as beautiful as you remember it from the first time you read Alan Moore & Dave Gibb...
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Martin
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March 06, 2009
Hoisted from comments: Joe S.: I'm a lawyer. I agree with Brian. The smoking gun has long been in plain sight: Yoo's omission of Youngstown Sheet & Tube in his torture memo. The recent release merely adds to it. However, as a lawyer, let me point out something else. It will be extremely hard to conv...
Grasping Reality with Both Hands
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Brad DeLong
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Orin Kerr is a proud and welcome member of the John-Yoo-Is-a-Bad-Faith-Actor caucus: Orin Kerr: John Yoo: "Now that I'm not in the government, part of my role, because I have a certain amount of expertise, is to try to keep the government honest." -- From an interview with the Orange County Register...
Grasping Reality with Both Hands
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Brad DeLong
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March 05, 2009
Today at Obama’s Health Care Summit at the White House Senator Ted Kennedy who doesn’t appear to be ailing, declared that this time ’we will not fail’ at achieving health care reform/universal health care for all Americans. It seems Sir Ted is ready for a fight. Brain tum...
conversations with an unapologetic black liberal
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blackliberal
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These days, I'm working hard to save my customers and partners money. Â I'm not cutting my speaking fees or discounting my consulting, either. I firmly believe that when you focus on price, you start down the slippery slope to the no-profit zone. Instead, I am focused on reducing my costs to custom...
Sanders Says
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Tim Sanders
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a burglary that did not need to happen... On Wednesday morning, a Westside business learned the hard way why Police response does not work. At about 3:45am, crooks smashed a pane of glass and forced open a set of expandable bars to steal some movies, video games and gaming consoles. The alarm did no...
Community Security : The Provident Blog
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mjagger
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