From The Wall Street Journal: U.S. government lawyers in December argued that Google hadn’t received an important security clearance for a suite of online applications despite the company’s statements to the contrary, according to a court filing unsealed last week.
For years those that support Israel have felt that the UN’s treatment of Israel is unjustified. Israeli leaders have complained again and again that the UN is biased against the Jewish state, that it judges almost every action of Israel
Google’s growing influence with government is beginning to pay dividends for the company while leaving consumers and taxpayers on the short end of the stick. Since donating over $1 million to the president’s campaign and building its online presence and
Ann Barnhardt: Fearless, Peerless Warrior Against the Cultural Jihad Once again a mere flicker–in this case burning a copy of the Koran in Florida–has ignited the inferno of deeply seated infidel-hatred that pervades the contemporary Muslim world, precipitating violence, death,
There is no escaping the pro-union tone included as part of some of the advertising material President Obama’s labor attorneys have placed on Google. That should be a no go for anyone serving on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),
The Coffee Party is at it again. Desperately seeking a raison d’etre other than NOT to be the Tea Party, the Brew Crew has just issued a Congressional chain-letter which it hopes its tens of followers will co-sign. Pulling no
And just think…. It was only a few short hours ago that far left Wisconsin candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg declared victory in the state’s Supreme Court race. Now this. Watch the first 36 seconds of her victory speech if you want
There’s an internal war going on in one of the Communications Workers of America’s largest locals, New York City’s Local 1101. Accusations of poor, absentee leadership has caused a group of rank and file stewards and chief stewards to start
We’ve already seen the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in illegal and extraordinary fashion commandeer control of the Internet – so as to then impose the ridiculous notion that is Network Neutrality. Which remains a solution running around looking for a
A Lebanese-American professor described the deteriorating situation of Christians in the Middle East, now complicated by revolution and Islamism, in a speech Thursday for the Westminster Institute. For a community that has always walked a fine line between politics and
I shouldn’t do this, at least not on the weekend, but I glanced at the NYT (which used to be called The Gray Lady) and saw this A1 headline: “Afghans Avenge Koran Burning, Killing 12” As someone who knows that
From AFP: An upcoming book about Google claims that Eric Schmidt, who is to step down next week as chief executive, once asked for information about a political donation he made to be removed from the Internet giant’s search engine,
There is a new divide by which we define ourselves: Those who suck in the acrid smell of jihad in the Middle East, pronounce their hallucinations “Arab Spring,” crave more … and those who don’t. Among those of us who
So according to some handy-dandy researchers, too much consumer choice is bad for society. Their explanation: thinking about so many alternatives makes you less likely to support policies that help people. According to a Science Daily scribe, who seemed somewhat
When it comes to the Make-Believe Media, some news is more equal than others. And it’s not just a numbers racket. So when do the numbers justify news coverage? Six hundred people at a New York AIDS rally make the
While the eyes of the world are focused on Libya, Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have been moving ahead with plans to discuss reconciliation, with the expectation that the United Nations will create a Palestinian state in September. Palestinian president
When the Hezbollah and Hamas supporting Professor Bassam Frangieh brought Syrian ambassador to America Imad Moustapha to Claremont McKenna College’s campus in 2009, a student in the Arabic program asked, in all seriousness, what America could do to help Syria
In a sea of perpetual turmoil that is the Middle East, the US holds few real cards. Our options are few and our choices even fewer. That is why, much to our criticism, we’ve had friendly relations with dictators and
As the war against for-profit schools drags on, several organizations continue to cry wolf in the hopes of landing the final blow to the resilient colleges. One of the biggest players in recent battles has been the New American Foundation.
“Texas Budget Could Cost 600,000 Jobs.” Wow! Red Alert! Red Alert! If you pull up CNN you will be treated to this sky-is-falling bullet point headline of doom regarding the $83.8 billion budget that will go before the Lone Star
Over the past month, Google made waves with the announcement that it has tweaked its search algorithms to penalize ‘content farms.’ These are “low quality sites whose main goal is to attract search traffic by piling up (mostly) useless content.”
Boy, them Googlers Act Fast. Climate ‘skeptic’ website ICECAP posted this item noting Google’s latest gambit in global warming activism, which includes bringing on board as an advisor an academic whose name and address pop up with some frequency in
As many of you know, I recently filed a lawsuit against the New York Times. Therefore, I will not comment on their having falsely stated as fact that I was involved in planning the very attempted far-left firebomb attack on
Someone on Twitter asked me last night if I’d heard about what was happening in Minnesota with the poor. I didn’t, so they sent me a link to Crooks & Liars that talked about a law proposed there that would
New protests erupted in Syria, while violence by the Yemeni government against protestors reached unprecedented levels. Elsewhere, Saudi Arabia’s monarch combined handouts and threats to insulate his kingdom from regional unrest. The emerging pattern of bullets and bribes has characterized
