Skip to content

Tag: Google

Swing and a Miss for "Heavy Breather" Matt Welch

Reason Magazine editor Matt Welch begins a critique of Beck’s “The Puppet Master” series from last week with a sentence that captures the general approach of many other critics of the series: “I didn’t watch Glenn Beck’s three-part series on

'Chosin' DVD

US Marine Corps Capt Brian IGLESIAS, director, and Anton Sattler, co writer, have produced an outstanding DVD on the Nov/Dec, 1950, Chosin Reservoir battle in North Korea. Iglesias enlisted in the US Marine Corps and was promoted to Captain. He

Hollywood Legend Ed Asner Stuck on 9/11 Truth

Ed Asner has hardly been shy about his belief that the United States government is responsible for the 9/11 attacks, but whenever fresh audio surfaces of the “Up” star, who is set to return to prime-time television in January, promoting

Mr. Issa, Take Note of Google and Obama Coziness

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand the Obama Administration’s view of business — it publically treats corporations with distain while privately promoting crony capitalism helping their favorite corporations with bailouts and subsidies. GM, Chrysler, Citibank, Goldman Sachs and

Reason.tv: In Defense of Payday Lending

Few industries are more reviled than payday lending, which primarily services the working poor by offering short-term loans at high interest rates. Payday customers borrow an average of $350 for a period of two weeks, or until their next paycheck

Would Rachel Maddow Rather Walk to Work?

I don’t regularly watch MSNBC, but curiosity got the better of me tonight. For no special reason, I found myself wondering what THE Place for Politics–I can’t bring myself to use the network’s new slogan–would say about the midterm elections

Cyber Warfare and the Future of Post-Castro Cuba

Cuba is a center for Cyber Warfare. The US public is becoming more and more aware of the importance of cyber war, especially after the destructive STUXNET worm attacks. Why bomb and destroy a nation’s facilities when with a cyber

Google Lobbyist Urged White House to Pressure FTC on Privacy

Did Google Money & Influence Buy FTC Decision? Yesterday we reported that the FTC’s decision to close it’s investigation into the Google WiSpy affair came less than a week after President Obama attended a $30,000-plate fundraiser at the California home

What I Learned at the Tea Party

In the endgame of Election 2010, speculation abounds concerning the impact the Tea Party movement will have. All over America, politicians, pollsters and pundits are frantically trying to predict the repercussions that will flow from the engagement of these folks

NPR's Sins Go Beyond Firing Juan Williams

They finally nabbed Al Capone–but for tax evasion. Legislation to de-fund The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will finally be introduced–but because of Juan Williams’ pink slip. Senator Jim DeMint explained his motivation, “Since 2001, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which