A major Internet company is under investigation by more than 30 state attorneys-general for alleged wiretapping violations. In Europe and now Texas that same company faces anti-trust inquiries on whether it unfairly penalizes its competitors, and its operations face criminal
Progressives are up in arms after Google appears to have caved on Net Neutrality by partnering with Verizon to abandon their core aims. Writing at Huffington Post, Josh Silver of the ironically named Free Press laments: For years, Internet advocates
Do the math. Instead of someone with the last name Rodriguez telling the tale of noble, sympathetic Hispanics victimized by white American southern rednecks — all of whom are portrayed as murderous racists, what if we had a white filmmaker
The newest faux outrage comes from the mouth of controversial Jewish Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. In a sermon from Israel, Rabi Yosef as much as called for God to level genocide against the Palestinians. I say “as much as” because he
Germany was just 24 hours away from winning the “Battle of Britain” when Goering made a fatal strategic error. He shifted their bombsights from Britain’s aerodromes to London’s civilian population, galvanizing the nation into exuberant cheerleaders for the Royal Air
In prepping a children’s program where I’d be recording all the Duggars from TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting, I read a lot about this family on the Internet. Boy was that unhelpful. I wanted to make sure I got their
As you can read here, retired Albemarle County (Virginia) Circuit Judge Paul Peatross has ruled that Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli may not have access to records under Virginia’s Fraud Against Taxpayers Act, as he seeks to determine the propriety
In prepping a children’s program where I’d be recording all the Duggars from TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting, I read a lot about this family on the Internet. Boy was that unhelpful. I wanted to make sure I got their
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy A firm owned by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today sued Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and seven other companies, charging them with infringing patents filed more than a
By now everyone knows that in the early morning hours of Tuesday, August 17th, someone threw an incendiary device into the campaign finance office of Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO). I remarked at the time, both online and on air, that
Time Magazine just ran an article on U.S.-Cuba relations which employs the word embargo (as in big, bad bully U.S. against innocent little free-health-care provider Castro) eight times. The term travel ban figures in the article’s very title. Question 1.
It’s last call at Club Network Neutrality. The crowd supporting this government Internet land grab is rapidly thinning. The latest two to head for the exits each deal a huge blow to the media “reform” cause – for different reasons.
Despite what the Associated Press and the politically correct say, I agree with Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf in calling the Cordoba House (oh, excuse me, Park51) the Ground Zero Mosque. It is insane to consider the former site of the
In a further blow to those pressing for the institution of controversial net neutrality rules, it emerged on Monday that the Gun Owners of America (GOA) has exited the Save the Internet coalition backed by pro-regulation liberal groups such as
As someone who deeply appreciates what Western civilization, for all its faults, has achieved, I puzzle over the hostility many Westerners harbor toward their way of life. If democracy, free markets, and the rule of law have created an unprecedented
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Jerry Brown has some unsavory friends; he has been a far-left extremist most of his life. But it is worth looking at which Californians are supporting him in his current run for Governor. One who
UPDATE: Andrew Bostom, Big Peace contributor and author of The Islamic Legacy of Antisemitism and The Legacy of Jihad, writes in to comment on Mr. Smith’s piece: Mr. Smith says: “In Muslim history there were at least six major Sunni
$100,000,000.00 to build a mosque so close to Ground Zero that an historic building will have to be torn down. This building is so close to “Ground Zero” that part of one of the hijacked planes tore through its roof.
CBS is reporting some strange noises coming out of New York tonight. Seems that Governor David Paterson is still thinking about a “compromise” that would allow the people behind the Ground Zero Mosque– and its Shariah Index Project— to relocate
Government restricting our constitutional rights in the name of “protecting the children,” is, sadly, nothing new. But when a guy who has made well in excess of $100 million making violent movies seeks to ban the sale of violent video
First the unremarkable, banal, veritably quotidian spectacle of Israel’s moderate partner in peace glorifying mass murderers. Palestinian President Abbas publicly mourned the death of Munich massacre mastermind Abu Daoud. He personally honored the three terrorists who murdered Rabbi Meir Avshalom
On Monday, Google and Verizon–two of the nation’s biggest companies operating in the tech space–announced a compromise joint proposal on Internet regulation that has tech policy observers buzzing. The proposal, discussed during a conference call featuring Google CEO Eric Schmidt
On Monday, World Wide Web Big Players Verizon and Google made officially public their seven self-agreed-to principles on how they think it’s best to run the Internet railroad. This was–and is–a bit of news, given that the two have been
The “Ground Zero” Mosque project should not go forward and let’s hope that Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf that is behind this $100 million project gets this message and backs off. But given what he is hearing from the liberals in
Washington (AP) – In an interview last night on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 , White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs revealed that President Obama has taped an appearance for the season three premiere of Swamp Loggers, airing in early November.
