Tag: politics
member name: Will Evans
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October 19, 2006 06:51 AM EDT --
For those who like Phillip Roth - or at least his latest, "The Plot Against America," there is a muchrucking journalist of the old style, Winchell, every sunday night on the radio railing against . . .
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June 09, 2006 02:10 PM EDT --
"I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption . . .
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April 12, 2006 02:39 PM EDT --
You may have seen reports in the news that the Bush administration may be planning a nuclear attack against Iran.
"The Iran Plans," By Seymour Hersh
This is alarming, to say the least. . . .
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October 09, 2006 06:14 AM EDT --
Keith Oberman wrote a seething commmentary on Bush's addiction to lying. This is really a brutal, and much needed, deconstruction of perhaps the worst presidency the republic has ever endured. A presidency . . .
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May 14, 2006 07:42 AM EDT --
A number of media figures, and comments posted to my previous post, have suggested that the NSA data collection program could have prevented the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks had it been in place . . .
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May 16, 2006 05:12 AM EDT --
Well, Bush unveiled his Bold, New Border Security Plan.
Security theater is the carrying out of actions which are designed to look as if they improve security whilst at the same time there is little improvement, . . .
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May 13, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
Update:
Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling
A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root . . .
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June 04, 2006 06:25 AM EDT --
While Rome Burns.....
Schrub: Good morning. Next week, the United States Senate will begin debate on a constitutional amendment that defines marriage in the United States as the union of a man and woman. . . .
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June 06, 2006 05:40 AM EDT --
"A Modern Archeology of the Evangelical Christian Meme"
by Dr. WK Evans IV, Richard Dawkins Professor of Humane Quanta and Evolutionary Memetics,
Cambridge Virtual University and Academe, 246 . . .
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October 09, 2006 09:17 AM EDT --
"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile—and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely." . . .
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May 14, 2006 07:45 PM EDT --
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
(Applause.)
-G.W. Bush
President Participates . . .
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March 28, 2006 08:32 PM EST --
I love this idea. Some studies have shown that we are exposed to over 3900 separate corporate messages a day. What if people started putting their own messages out there - not just on the web, or on Gather . . .
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April 29, 2006 06:30 AM EDT --
Update to the previous post concerning the NSA and AT&T:
DOJ Will Assert Military and State Secrets Privilege and Request Dismissal of Lawsuit
The United States government filed a "Statement . . .
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May 13, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
I haven't decided whether this is funny or ironic or scary, or all three combined in some sick twist of fate. I was just wrapping up my previous post on the NSA, and this email arrived from a recruiter. . . .
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May 14, 2006 03:35 PM EDT --
I know this was a while ago - but we should never forget the true face of idiocy.
[After the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept 11, 2001]
JERRY FALWELL: The ACLU's got to . . .
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May 15, 2006 05:13 AM EDT --
Update: It was a ruse.
"Rove, you evil sodomite whore of a chimp humping turd blossom, you are free for one more day," says one well placed administration source.
Update: Rove's Propaganda . . .
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May 14, 2006 05:30 PM EDT --
Continued from my previous post on this topic.
" It is like the nuclear bomb for e-voting systems. It's the deal breaker. It really makes the security flaws that we found (in prior years) look . . .
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March 21, 2006 04:07 PM EST --
Really interesting article by Robert X. Cringley on the lack of federal funding for security technologies.
Since the attack on the Towers, the United States threw its considerable fortune (ability to . . .
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May 12, 2006 05:08 AM EDT --
"Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument.
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past.
Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous . . .
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March 19, 2006 07:54 PM EST --
It's Morning In America!
Seems the Bush administration was not content with simply using the NSA for warrentless wiretaps without use of the FISA court. Quoting from US News and World article, apparently . . .
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