Manipulating the Information Age

Billy Beck, talking about Jenna:

  My current conclusion: I have no real way of knowing what happened down there.

In “the Information Age,” that’s a very remarkable fact.

Don’t be so surprised.  Once people become dependent on “information” wasn’t the

Last night, CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck blamed California’s massive wildfires on the “damn environmentalists” and their “bad environmental policies.” He also claimed that global warming has nothing to do with the situation, stating, “[I]f I hear global warming

I’m hearing the Disney folks are now into Martial Arts movies. They’ve managed to dig up some distant cousin of Bruce Lee to star in their first effort… “Honey, I Shrunk the Dragon”.

—  WASHINGTON — George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson.  In fact, he’s arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ.

Well,

Well, now… no WONDER Foer was keeping so silent.

Michelle says it very well indeed:

I repeat Ace’s distillation for those who have only superficial knowledge of this scandal: Remember: TNR Hid The Existence Of This Phone Call From The

Joyner points up an AP story which labels Philadelphia Washington and Dallas as the places where the least attractive people in the United States congregate.

I wasn’t even aware there was a contest.  And attractiveness, is such a subjective

Sounds rather like a forthcoming football game, doesn’t it? Interestingly, this little subtext drama gets played out in the sports venue of each city.

(Sigh) I haven’t even attempted to cover the fires in SouCal. I’m simply not equipped for

If you’re the president, do you visit southern California under these circumstances?  Mark Finkelstein over at Newsbusters points out that President Bush’s going, at least as far as we know right now, but points out that no matter what happens,

Megan McArdle:

Ezra and Brian are complaining that it’s hard to get anything done these days:

I think it’s almost certainly wrong that we’re not overwhelmed by the volume of tragedy in the world — there’d have to be something

You’d like to think that one place our nations laws would be respected would be in the Halls of Congress.    Not if you are a democrat, who planned to flout our nation’s immigrantion laws by using illegal aliens as props.  

Don’t go here if you have a weak stomach.

If ‘immigration”  is as hot as subject in the selection of our next President as I think it will be, Fred Thompson has just won not only the nomination, but the election, as well.

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:20 AM CDT

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

TWO MILITANTS KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT WITH COALITION FORCES

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:13 AM

I’ve put up with about as much from Ron Paul supporters as I’m going to.  I’ve created a special spam bucket, with a special filter just for you clowns.  3/4 of which I don’t even see and none of it

James Joyner: (Link repaired)

Reason‘s Dave Weigel takes to the pages of The American Conservative to warn Republicans that they’re not going to win in 2008 simply by bashing Hillary Clinton.

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While negative campaigning and pointing out the