AT&T Adds Ad to Lawsuit in Fight Against Verizon
On top of their lawsuit against Verizon (which recently encounteredit’s first loss), AT&T has released a response ad claiming they have “the best 3G experience”.
On top of their lawsuit against Verizon (which recently encounteredit’s first loss), AT&T has released a response ad claiming they have “the best 3G experience”.
Because it wasn’t painful enough to know that the “stimulus” money is heavily used to pay for the union-inflated salaries of thousands of bureaucrats in the states, or paying for jobs in phantom districts, or even better, going to recipients
The Sarbanes-Oxley Law was rushed through Congress in the wake of an enormous corporate accounting scandal that shook Wall Street and investors across the country. CEO’s and officers at several large companies were found to have “cooked the books”; i.e.
From the Associated Press: The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient’s condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year. Excerpts of a
In reply to a recent political and cultural controversy involving “Sesame Street,” Sesame Workshop Executive Vice President Miranda Barry wrote: Jim Henson, Jon Stone, Frank Oz and others set a witty and silly tone for Sesame Street that our current
Why ask why? National Science Foundation and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study why children ask so many “why” question Harvest time: The Washington Apple Commission receives federal funds to educate retailers in China, Russia and other
Last week, I listened to a speech at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, presented by Yaron Brook, President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute. I was enthralled by Brook’s eloquent and forceful defense of the free market. In this
This week marks the start of Sesame Street’s 40th season. As announced in an article in National Geographic, the show will be focusing on a green storyline this year: As another example of the show’s forward thinking, Davis said, the
Sky News: As well as Google, [News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch] criticised other sites like Microsoft and Ask.com for also taking a free ride on its content – “the people who just simply pick up everything and run with it
Having received some criticism for my last post about “Sesame Street,” I would like to briefly respond to some of the questions and assertions in the comment section. What’s so bad about saying “we share common humanity despite ethnic/religious/linguistic differences?”
For most non-Teutons the idea of German rock is not very appealing. The fatherland of Bach and Beethoven may well have produced many interesting experimental groups (Kraftwerk, Einstürzende Neubauten etc) but on a global, top 40 level it’s an entirely
Generally after a story has been told as a book, play, musical, numerous animated, live, made-for-TV films, and Muppets movie, its content is completely exhausted. But Disney’s latest, “A Christmas Carol,” by writer-director Robert Zemeckis of “Forrest Gump” and animated
Merry-Go-Round Museum receives federal funds Federal funds pay to put on a ghostly journey to the most haunted places in Illinois The shopping mall to nowhere; $5 million stimulus grant to heat an “almost-empty mall” Stimulus grant pays to keep
On Saturday, I reported that all 40 Republican Senators signed a letter demanding to see the health care bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) claimed he sent to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Yesterday, Reid circulated a Dear Colleague
There are millions of tweets every day, and the government is paying scientists $678,000 to read them and measure the happiness of the written expressions National Science Foundation discovers the cure for politicians’ dismal approval ratings; Taxpayer funded researchers to
From the Associated Press: (Washington)–Two conservative activists released a new undercover video targeting the community organizing group ACORN on Wednesday, an attempt to re-ignite a simmering political controversy surrounding the Democratic-leaning organization. The new videotape shows filmmakers Hannah Giles and
Yesterday, The L.A. Times ran a story referencing our Thursday series covering the leaked network network memo and those “organically” produced network television shows running this week designed to funnel the unsuspecting to creepy Internet portals eager to direct your
Free golf carts available from federal stimulus program Annual U.S. federal budget deficit reaches an all time high of $1.42 trillion in 2009; Government spending jumped to more than $3.5 trillion, increasing over 18% in one year The Pentagon pays
I thought about writing a script about China – thriller, action, intrigue. The last film that dealt with China would be “Red Corner” which a Wikipedia review said, “…more the movie’s subtext swallows its story, until all that is left
The new ABC sitcom Hank is rather short on big laughs, but it’s well-stocked with good ideas and sound values. The big question is, will ABC give it a chance? Hank is the first of two family-oriented comedies ABC is
$300,000 in federal stimulus money pays to map radioactive rabbit turds from a helicopter $445 million worth of congressional earmarks compromise the priorities of the Energy Department $2.6 billion diverted from guns and ammunition for troops to pay for politicians’
Senator Byrd earmarks $5 million in Defense funds for a company that no longer exists House committee earmarks $103 million of Defense funds to contractors who employ the congressmen’s former staffers-turned-lobbyists National Science Foundation studies the bug splatter on the
[ed. note: republished and amended from a 2007 post] Dear BARACK OBAMA : Congratulations! On behalf of the selection committee, I am pleased to announce that you have been named a 2009 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition
After more than thirty years Oscar winning director Roman Polanski, the infamous child rapist and decades-long fugitive from justice, has been captured. He should be extradited back to California as soon as possible for sentencing. Some of Polanski’s early apologists
Even for those not paying very close attention to the news in recent months, this headline from today’s “Climate Wire” may strike you as a tad incongruent: MILITARY: Coastlines plumbed for ancient data in Pentagon climate study Possibly the Pentagon’s
