53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida

How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long?  Simple. Because Florida hadn’t been using the best available data revealing which voters have died.  Florida is now using the nationwide Social Security Death Index for determining which voter …

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Bill Maher Blames Conservatives for America's Obesity Problem | NewsBusters.org

On HBO's Real Time Friday, host Bill Maher actually accused the Right of being responsible for the obesity problem in the country (video follows with transcript and commentary)Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/05/12/bill-maher-blames-cons …

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Censoring Naomi Riley

Earlier this week, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the trade paper for faculty members and administrators in universities, fired Naomi Schaefer Riley, a paid blogger for its website. Her crime? She had the courage to respond to a Chronicle story called “Bl …

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The price of "Free" | Serious Simplicity

So When Does Free Work? Almost never. Somebody always pays. If healthcare is free, your taxes pay for it. If the flight is free, the extras aren’t. If the search is free, the advertiser is paying. The only time when Free can really work for you is if you  …

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Fox Executive's Case Now Criminal Homicide Investigation

here’s a new development in the case of Twentieth Century Fox veteran film distribution executive Gavin Smith who is still missing. I’ve now learned that the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has officially changed the status of the case from a missin …

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Might upgrade to the paid version someday – Marco.org

This definitely isn’t an Android problem: it’s a user problem. Maybe a significantly larger percentage of Android users insist on free apps than iOS users (it certainly seems that way). But both platforms have much larger demand for free apps than paid app …

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Biden Jokes about Secret Service Threatening to Shoot Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissioner

“But you see this man right here, my Secret Service guy? He played in pro-football, also was on that national championship team – the Clemson had. He said if I go, he’ll shoot you, Ronnie, so …I’m only kidding. That’s not true. He didn&rsquo …

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Tim Thomas visits anti-big government FreedomWorks in D.C., an Obama-free zone | Puck Daddy

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The Myth of the Security-Smug Mac User

 I haven’t met a single Mac pundit who ever dismissed Mac security issues or the potential for malware, or who thought their Mac ‘immune’. From Gruber, to Macworld, to TidBITS, and even The Macalope (a close personal friend when h …

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Keith Olbermann's Angry Email Trail Traces Breakup With Current TV

The arguments escalated for months, with Olbermann directly appealing to the former vice president on three or four occasions, until relations had become so poisoned that, on Friday, Current fired Olbermann for breach of contract. He has vowed to take the matter to court and qu …

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Keith Olbermann Fired by Al Gore's Current TV, Replaced by Eliot Spitzer

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The iPad Wins Because Android Tablet Apps Suck: An Illustrated Guide

I just gave the new iPad an Editors' Choice award for large tablets, but frankly it was a foregone conclusion. The iPad doesn't get the award because of its hardware, lovely as the hardware is. It gets the award because its apps are generally better than the apps avai …

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Dick Cheney gets heart transplant—Editorial - NYPOST.com

Actually, Cheney spent two years on the transplant list — much longer than average. And the selection system, by all accounts, is almost impossible to manipulate.

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Apple: Job Creation - Daring Fireball

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Andrew RIP - By Jonah Goldberg

Andrew wasn’t anything like my best friend. But he was an old and special one. Back in the early days of National Review Online, even before we called it National Review Online, Andrew and I were buddies.

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Why I Hate Android

Apple, for all the @!$%# they get for being “closed” and “evil”, has actually done far more to wrestle control back from the carriers and put it into the hands of consumers.

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Why analysts can't tell you how iPads are selling – so tell you about others

Two. Per. Cent. That's the market share for tablets including the RIM PlayBook and… all those other 7in tablets. Context says that's "more a comment on the appeal of current 7in tablets".

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Apple Plans Solar Farm at Data Center Site

Apple has quietly begun work on a solar farm that apparently could help power its sprawling data center in southern Catawba County. Permits issued by Catawba County show that the Cupertino, Calif., company has been approved to reshape the slope of some of the 171 acres of vaca …

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs Resigns, Recommends Cook as Succesor - Bloomberg

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Carney Derided Bush's Vacation, Defends Obama's Vacation Plans | CNSnews.com

In a 2001 column for Time magazine, journalist Jay Carney ridiculed President George W. Bush about his vacation plans during his first summer in office.

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How the [IE Users Are Dumb] hoax started and propagated. | AptiQuant

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