Media Swoon Over ‘Techie’ Obama

How necessary is technological know-how to the presidency?

Google’s New Motto: Don’t Get Caught Being Evil?

Google is well known for the motto “Don’t Be Evil.”  But behind the scenes the company’s executives seem to be guided by a different principle: Don’t Get Caught Being Evil.
A German regulatory audit of the Google Street View project has forced the information giant to admit that employees accidentally grabbed about 600 gigabytes of personal [...]

The Only Thing Worth Dying For

How eleven Green Berets forged a new Afghanistan.

Leave the camel. Take the machete.

Nick Bergamini and Mark Klibanov, two Ottawa students, were attacked by a group men who yelled ‘Zionist’ and ‘Jew ‘
The morning after Ann Coulter’s Ottawa speech was canceled thanks to the hijinks of  “peaceful” student protesters, I typed “Ann Coulter + Ottawa” into Google News and turned up over 2000 stories.
Ottawa students were involved in [...]

Microsoft’s Bing search engine filtering negative searches about Muslims?

Has Bing come down with the same “bug” that infected Google for so long — the one that censored negative searches about Islam? Try it yourself: go to Bing and type in “Jews are.” One suggested completion of the phrase will show up: Now type in “Christians are,” and you’ll…

Microsoft’s Bing search engine filtering negative searches about Muslims?

Has Bing come down with the same “bug” that infected Google for so long — the one that censored negative searches about Islam?
Try it yourself: go to Bing and type in “Jews are.” One suggested completion of the phrase will show up:

Now type in “Christians are,” and you’ll get two suggestions:

But if you [...]

Facing New Voter Fraud Charges, ACORN Rebranding Continues

Glenn Beck hasn’t been paying much attention to ACORN lately — and that’s too bad.
He’s done the nation a great service by helping to publicize ACORN’s crimes against the American people and for that we should be thankful.
But there are so many other corrupt practices ACORN is guilty of. We have only just scratched the [...]

More search engine self-censorship for Muslim countries

Two aspects of this story regarding Microsoft’s Bing search engine are of interest. One is the self-imposed double standard: would Microsoft disallow searches on “rude” words for any other place on the planet? The other is the political and ethical precedent it sets: if they self-censor on this, what else…

Do Republicans Still Think the War Doesn’t Start until Midnight?

I hate to see friends fight, especially when one of them is swinging a blunt object, so Bill Bennett’s recent seal-clubbing of Glenn Beck, and bench-clearing brawl that ensued, was unfortunate. At issue were some of  Beck’s remarks made at the CPAC conference, notably the characterization of the Republican Party as an unrepentant drunk — [...]

Worst Research in the Wooorrrrllld! Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 34

Hey, Keith, this is not a rifle!
In his latest great Bob Lee Swagger thriller, I Sniper, author Stephen Hunter has a character state sarcastically, “Someone once defined a newspaper gun story as ’something with a mistake in it.’”
You’d think that if Keith Olbermann was going to mount his high horse, do a superior act and [...]