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PETER HITCHENS: The night we waved goodbye to America...our last best hope on Earth | Mail Online
Seeded on Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:14 PM EST (the Mail online)
The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation.
Obama and the New Party
Seeded on Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:25 AM EDT (humanevents.com)
The New Party was an amalgamation of far left groups. Barack Obama knew that when he sought the party's endorsement in 1996.
Dresden bombing death toll lower than thought - Telegraph
Seeded on Thu Oct 2, 2008 11:53 AM EDT (Telegraph)
The death toll from the Allied bombing of Dresden in the Second World War was much lower than previously thought, according to new research by a German government commission.
Who caused the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression?
Seeded on Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:17 PM EDT (Pajamas Media)
For decades the government has done things to help Americans to realize the dream, e.g., graciously allowing citizens to keep some of their own money to help pay for the interest on a mortgage (the official term for this is a "tax deduction").
Deregulation Not To Blame For Financial Woes
Seeded on Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:17 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- In the debate on Sept. 26, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama argued that the current crisis in the financial markets is the result of Republican deregulation.
You Can't Rescue the Financial System If You Can't Read a Balance Sheet
Seeded on Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:46 AM EDT (hussmanfunds.com)
However the final legislation is written, the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) being rushed through Congress will evidently be built around its single worst provision, which is that the Treasury will have authority to purchase distressed mortgage securities from U.S.
Making Social Networks Profitable
Seeded on Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:51 PM EDT (Business Week)
Google (GOOG) has a patent pending on technology for ranking the most influential people on social networking sites like MySpace (NWS) and Facebook. In a creative twist, Google is applying the same approach to social networks it has used to dominate the online search business.
If Web Apps are Evil, Why Do We Use Them? - Mashable
Seeded on Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:10 PM EDT (Mashable!)
Richard Stallman is going berserk over cloud computing.
Muslims Continue Pushing Christians Out of Bethlehem - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Arutz Sheva
Seeded on Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:29 PM EDT (Arutz Sheva News Briefs)
The Muslim Fatah-controlled authority in Judea and Samaria is encouraging a "sharp demographic shift" in Bethlehem, where the Christian population went from a 60 percent majority in 1990 to a 40 percent minority in 2000, to about 15 percent of the city's total population today.
The battle for Sarah Palin's soul :: Damian Thompson
Seeded on Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:10 PM EDT (Telegraph)
Sarah Palin is at the centre of a furious battle behind the scenes of the US election between conservative Christian tribes who want to claim her as one of her own.
A Conservative government must exclude sharia 'courts' from British justice :: Damian Thompson
Seeded on Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:56 AM EDT (Telegraph)
It is hard to believe, but the decisions of sharia judges in Muslim areas of Britain are now legally enforceable.
Britain's Royal Society may be supporting it as a "worldview": Creationism and the advance of counterknowledge
Seeded on Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:17 AM EDT (Telegraph)
All over the Western world, in hospitals, universities and academic publishing houses, forms of counterknowledge - Afrocentric history, homeopathy, transgendered physics - are being validated by an establishment that has lost faith in the methodology of the enlightenment.
Camille Paglia on Sarah Palin's debut, John McCain's rebirth, and Barack Obama's tenuous position | Salon
Seeded on Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:17 PM EDT (Salon.com)
Easily the best article I have read so far about the issues underlying the US presidential election.
Mr. Biden reported to support a nuclear Iran
Seeded on Wed Sep 3, 2008 1:36 PM EDT (New York Post)
This is really scary: the New York Post reports that Mr. Biden told Israeli leaders in 2005 that they would have to accept a nuclear Iran.
What will Osama bin Laden (erm, sorry, I meant Obama and Biden) do to Israel?
Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:29 AM EDT
...During that committee hearing, at the height of the Lebanon War, Sen. John [sic] Biden (Delaware) had attacked Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria and threatened that if Israel did not immediately cease this activity, the US would have to cut economic aid to Israel.
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Gorbachev: Russia Never Wanted a War
Seeded on Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:14 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Still as bright and spot on as ever
Powerful, clever MobileMe
Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:13 AM EDT
Just over a month after the launch of Apple’s MobileMe cloud computing suite, I have been using the service, coupled with the new iPhone 2.0 software, sufficiently to make an initial assessment, which will be mainly of the software side of things as the new iPhone actually …
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Can We Please Define Cloud Computing?
Seeded on Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:28 PM EDT (Mashable!)
An interesting, well argued view of what defines cloud computing, whether it is actually a new or an old concept and whether it is safer than on-site servers.
How I Stole Someone's Identity: Scientific American
Seeded on Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:29 AM EDT (Sciam)
Of course most people know how easy identity theft is on the Internet. The author of this article, though, shows it's probably even easier than you would think. I guess this will be scary for some.
WARNING: Iranian boy to be executed tomorrow « نوجوانان را اعدام نکنید scenews.blog.com
Seeded on Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:34 AM EDT (scenews.blog.com)
Seyed Reza Hejazi, a juvenile offender is scheduled for execution tomorrow morning at 4am. According his father, Reza has been transferred to solitary cell which holds prisoners who are executed in 24 hours.
Apple vs. Google: How Will They Stack Up in the Future?
Seeded on Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:43 AM EDT (Wired News)
Google makes more money than Apple does. It had earnings of $10 billion over the past 12 months, compared to $8 billion for Apple. And while both companies' earnings are growing fast, Google's are growing faster.
Why Apple's MobileMe is actually innovative and well-designed
Seeded on Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:37 PM EDT (Apple Insider)
This is the third in a very well-written set of reviews of Apple's controversial MobileMe service.
Why Barack Obama Will Not Win
Seeded on Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:08 AM EDT (American Thinker)
There is palpable anxiety, even despair, among many Republicans and conservatives over the possibility that Barack Obama will be elected president this November.
Inside MobileMe: Mac and PC cloud sync and mobile push
Seeded on Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:15 PM EDT (Apple Insider)
Part of a series in Appleinsider on Apple's new MobileMe push service, which I am bookmarking until I get the time to write my own feedback on the subject.
Fr Z.'s intelligent reaction to Damian Thompson's article about the suppressed parish in Leeds
Seeded on Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:48 AM EDT ()
Fr Z. of WDTPRS comments, intelligently as always, on the shocking attempt by the local bishop to close a traditionalist parish that appears to have done nothing irregular.
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