I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in.
If you want to get an idea of just how popular Facebook has become, consider this fact:
If Facebook were a country, it would now be the 6th most populous in the world.
There are currently 175 million Facebook accounts, and that number is growing up 600,000 per day, and it’s not just college students signing up:
45% [...]
Apparently, this is what they consider good business practices:
A postal carrier in Depew has been threatened with suspension because he failed to walk across snow-covered lawns while delivering mail one day last month, his union said.
The carrier, whom the union did not name, was issued a “warning letter” Tuesday, telling him he could be suspended [...]
On Thursday, Jeff Fredrick had this to say on the occasion of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday yesterday:
His assertion that Darwin believed that some people were “more evolved” is, of course, utter nonsense. There’s nothing about modern evolutionary theory that would support that conclusion or advances that theory. Moreover, Darwin was quite admant during his time [...]
Veronique de Rugy lists some of the more egregious pork contained the stimulus bill passed last night by Congress:
* $24 million for United States Department of Agriculture buildings and rent
* $176 million for renovating Agricultural Research Service buildings
* $290 million for flood prevention
* $50 million for watershed rehabilitation
* $1.4 billion for wastewater disposal programs
* $295 [...]
This probably counts as a spoiler, but I don’t think any fan of 24 will be disappointed to learn in advance that Aaron Pierce is back:
LOS ANGELES — In the world of Fox’s hit series “24,” there aren’t many people you can really trust, other than Jack Bauer, of course _ and Secret Service Agent [...]
I can’t quite figure out why, but someone has given Twitter $ 35 million:
Twitter has raised $35 million in venture capital, bringing the microblogging start-up’s total funding to $55 million.
The new money came from Institutional Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital. Peter Fenton, a partner at Benchmark who has also invested in Web 2.0 darlings Yelp [...]
Ron Paul speaks outside the Capitol on a windy Friday afternoon after voting against the Stimul-Pork bill:
Money quote:
“An atrocious way to legislate.”
There may someday be a cure for the common cold after all:
Curing the common cold, one of medicine’s most elusive goals, may now be in the realm of the possible.
Researchers said Thursday that they had decoded the genomes of the 99 strains of common cold virus and developed a catalog of its vulnerabilities.
“We are now [...]
A new Rasmussen poll seems to indicate that Arlen Specter may be in political trouble back home for his support of the “stimulus” bill:
Senator Arlen Specter is one of only three Republicans to support the economic stimulus bill in Congress, and the latest Rasmussen Reports survey in Pennsylvania shows that his position is costing him [...]
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