ars has a good article reminding us of an important fact about peertopeer tools like bittorrent while they certainly can be used for illegal and unethical purposes theyre ultimately just tools. they also have indisputably legal and legitimate usesin this case rapidly deploying software updates on a campus network. one of the reasons that stopping piracy is only going to get harder over time is tha...
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mike gravel liberaltarian and reason subscriber he and his lovely wife wendy have confirmed this is the third democrat wholl appear on most super tuesday ballots. until 1980 he was a senator from alaska so i wondered whether hed be trying to score a delegate or two there.nope. hes in california today giving a speech at berkeley. and tomorrow after the california primary hes... still in berkeley.it...
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so i have taken my time in deciding which candidate i will endorse for president of the united states but with the iowa caucuses coming up it is indeed time for me to put up or shut up. before i get to the candidate of my choice it behooves me to discuss briefly a few of the other contenders. theres a lot more below. a whole lot more. read on . . . first there is ...
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justice clarence thomas is interviewed by brian lamb on qa this week. its a pretty good widerangin interview thats worth a listen. despite the recent press about him he seems like a centered person. a couple of things he said were interesting to me hes a big fan of churchill. the main reason is churchills resilience. thomas says if you quite you run you hide you get negative. you get cynical. y...
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then theres obama. i like the guy. too cool and laidback to be a really good professor is how one of my friends remembered him in a conversation we had a couple of months ago. our law school class overlapped with his tenure as a law profstate senator. i never had him as a prof but i can picture it.hes to the left of 87 percent of his senate colleagues on economic issues. and i dont like that. but ...
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caught this story earlier in the day and of course by now its likely all over the gun blogs. i emailed a bunch of folks noticing that ive lost a few addresses. heres the story at wnd court dumps d.c. gun ban federal appeals judges opinion declares 2nd amendment grants individual right in a major decision addressing interpretation of the second amendment a federal appeals court today overturned t...
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the webmaster is a poet. jeremy has contributed to america futures foundations new haiku brew presidential surge edition mitt romney is not going to win the white house because well you know.......
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if you consider yourself a fan of both wikipedia and the colbert report a kind of cognitive dissonance is inescapable at times and monday night was one of those times. the first was last august when the faux winger unleashed upon wikipedia his socalled colbert nation an unknown percentage of his audience willing to carry out simple online tasks e.g voting in online polls at colberts request to...
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1 president bush for the sixth straight year couldnt make it to the march for life. quite an unfortunate coincidence for sure. 2 lets remember that aside from the evils of abortion roe v. wade was a horrible decision from a legal point of view as many prochoice legal scholars have attested. one of the most curious things about roe is that behind its own verbal smokescreen the substantive judgme...
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i have always believed that libertarians can help protect conservatives from falling prey to the temptations of power and that conservatives can help remind libertarians that we can obey moral law while opposing new government laws. in fact ive always thought that a real burkeankirkian conservatism results in mostly libertarian policies. back in the day frank meyer was the most wellknown champio...
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apparently the recent liberty fund conference got a little bit heated over some discussion of fusionist frank s. meyer and states rights. apparently law profblogger ann althouse engaged in some theatrics over at least one of the presentations. now the discussion has spilled over into the blogosphere and you can see althouse and jonah goldberg get into it 2006style in this lovely bloggingheads.tv...
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gene healy and matthew yglesias come to blows over the meaning of the late sigh milton friedmans objection to jfks ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. after reading the first round im hoping the ref will stop the fight for matts sake.......
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stop me if youve heard this one previously unknown weeksold blog makes waves by posting the results of emails ultimately leading the blogs target to vacate office. this time the target here is not a congressman but the blogger who first published emails exposing the poor judgment and spelling of nowexrep. mark foley. tpmmuckraker headlines it final foley email mystery solved sorta sorta is righ...
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the daily show certainly jacks some of its content from the web and its almost hard to imagine the colbert report without web interaction. other entertainment programs and news outlets are also jacking story concepts news leads and other useful content from online amateurs and as i noted last week they dont always give credit where credit is due. this past weekend i was invited by the online mag...
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this could also be filed under quoteoftheday businesses do not desire free markets. businesses desire profits. sometimes free markets yield profits. sometimes big government yields profits. take private equity shops. some of them may resist regulations or taxes on themselves but taxes and regulations canand dodrive privatelyheld companies to sell out. that was from tim carney author of the new bo...
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we are in a moment when the conservative movement is humiliated by the achievements wrung from their electoral success. michael brendan dougherty surfeited with dainties with this line michael sums up the situation as succinctly and memorably as anyone i have read on the subject of the state of conservatism today. read the rest of the post and go see michaels article on james burnham at brainw...
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beware of the geesemy short overview of the life and career of james burnham is now up at aff brainwash. we are in a moment when the conservative movement is humiliated by the the achievements wrung from their electoral success. and so there is an opportunity to go back and look at our movement and recover any wisdom we might find in it. james burnham is just one of the major thinkers the conserva...
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its probably not reasonable to expect too high a quality standard from brainwash a magazine whose writers are not paid and whose explicit purpose is to provide a forum for aspiring libertarian and conservative authors a chance to get their work published. still i have to say this article was an especially bad bit of foreign policy analysis. we need china runs the refrain. we had better get used...
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heed the word.......
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you should go check out gene healy and tim lynchs new paper blasting the bush administration for its appalling constitutional record. really very little of it is news to those of us who have been paying attention. unfortunately a depressing number of selfdescribed libertarians and conservatives seem not to have been paying attention. which is a shame because theyre the ones who are supposed to obj...
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thomas defrank writes in todays new york daily news like his predecessors at moments of political urgency president bush can turn on a dime without losing any sleep. even so yesterdays flipflop was especially breathtaking for a son of the oil patch. time and again bush has spurned demands from critics he do precisely what he did yesterday. sometime in the 1980s i believe i decided the big d...
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thomas defrank writes in todays new york daily news like his predecessors at moments of political urgency president bush can turn on a dime without losing any sleep. even so yesterdays flipflop was especially breathtaking for a son of the oil patch. time and again bush has spurned demands from critics he do precisely what he did yesterday. sometime in the 1980s i believe i decided the big d...
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gene is lucky he doesnt live in orlando. note the last line of the article. orlandians orlandonians must live under a storm of potentially diseased birdshit because the federal government has deemed the nests sacred. trackback 0......
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happy blogiversary to the following bloggers this could only happen to me 6 years goblinbox.com 5 years minhs notes 4 years noodlefood 4 years le petit hiboux 4 years hipaa blog 4 years gene healy 4 years israellycool 3 years supergirls blog 3 years such small hands 3 years its all about de 3 years nakeid knits 3 years electric venom 3 years tacjammer 3 years sockbug...
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messrs. flinn and i have posted before on professor john j. mearsheimers proliferation is ok theory before on these pages. interestingly we both were at worst neutral to israels acquisition of fissile warheads. for the old debate see here and scroll down until you are reading under the title birmingham federalists meet at the summitt club unless otherwise noted and nukes. professor mearsheimer is...
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