Genuine rights to privacy rest upon other established liberties — primarily property and contract. Property rights will decide whether, say, placing a GPS device on the bottom of your car (a case to be heard by the highest court next … Continue reading
First read this for some background.
A fan at the St. Louis – Texas game last week…
Berkeley, ne’er a bastion of non-progressive thought has a project called BEST, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures project, and that project monitors and collates data on the surface temperatures of the planet. Here, my friends, is the most important graph … Continue reading
I wonder if, when the next State of the Union happens, they’ll be as quick to applaud the fact that the reform failed, or if they’ll toss that into the “blame Bush” basket? And I don’t know if private accounts … Continue reading
NEW YORK—Police arrested the president, former president, and treasurer of Local 348 United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) on Thursday. Anthony Fazio Sr., John Fazio Jr., and Anthony Fazio Jr. were charged with racketeering, extortion, money laundering, and … Continue reading
They’re small. I couldn’t speak to all 1,800 of them, but some of the lists that I have seen have been very, very small companies. They will not have a big impact on the economy of our country, via realclearpolitics.com … Continue reading
So what if Russell Simmons is rich? The hip-hop mogul doesn’t believe that takes away from his support of the Occupy movement in the least bit. For the Def Jam co-founder, it doesn’t matter if he is part of the … Continue reading
The family of deceased Libyan dictator Moammar Kadafi reportedly plans to file a war-crimes complaint against NATO for the role they believe the international military alliance played in the former leader’s death, a lawyer for the family told Agence France-Presse … Continue reading
Google recently announced it was going to put an 18 month upgrade requirement on any handset that wants to be Google-certified, meaning if you buy a handset today, you’re guaranteed OS updates for 18 months. While it still remains to … Continue reading
On October 22nd, Orlando Jones mused that he wished people would focus on killing Sarah Palin. Well, that fine example of the new tone was later followed by an apology almost a week later. Kind of. He wants to elevate … Continue reading
I LOL’ed… Takeaway: Answer just means respond, not respond favorably.
I LOL’ed my ass off…
I remember distinctly sitting at the house of my in-laws during Passover one year, and we got to talking about unions. I’ve said previously that I’m not a huge fan of unions or the work they do, for the most … Continue reading
A study released by the California Parenting Institute Tuesday shows that every style of parenting inevitably causes children to grow into profoundly unhappy adults. “Our research suggests that while overprotective parenting ultimately produces adults unprepared to contend with life’s difficulties, … Continue reading
Craig Horlacher writes: Since iOS 4 was released I’ve seen a number of articles saying that Google stole ideas from Apple for Android. This article points out that all computer systems around these days were preceded by something else. The … Continue reading
The State Department on Wednesday defended spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on books authored by President Obama, while White House spokesman Jay Carney called the book-buying an “embassy-based decision.” The comments followed a report Wednesday by The Washington … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street protesters might say they represent 99% of the nation, but there’s a growing number of Americans who are making it clear they are not part of the dissident crowd. They call themselves the 53%…as in the 53% … Continue reading
Funded by Google.org, SMU’s Geothermal Laboratory has found that the United States could produce three million megawatts of green power, or 10 times the amount of power that coal produces today. As you can see in the map above, SMU … Continue reading
This is how househunting feels to me.
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Getting… Sleepy…