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.
Last year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a California law that made it illegal to sell “violent” video games to minors. Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the State of California’s appeal in that case: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether free speech rights are more important than […]
An audit reveals some rather interesting web-surfing going on at government offices: On a day when President Obama argued for more government regulation over the financial industry, a new government report reveals that some high-level regulators have spent more time looking at porn than policing Wall Street. The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to […]
One of the most ubiquitous Internet memes of the past two years looks like it’s about to come to an end: NEW YORK — Adolf Hitler, for years a vessel of frustration in a popular Internet meme, has been quieted. “Downfall,” a German film released in 2004 about Hitler’s last days, has been adopted for […]
The Library of Congress announced today that it had reached an agreement with Twitter to acquire the entire Twitter database: Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress. That’s right. Every public tweet, ever, […]
First Karl Rove blocks me on Twitter, for reasons I still haven’t figured out, now I get blocked by Keith Olbermann even thought I wasn’t following him ! And all because I said this when I saw a ReTweet of a tweet of his showing him sticking his tongue out on the streets of New […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. today hand a major defeat to the Net Neutrality crowd: WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. Tuesday’s ruling by the United […]
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that it’s the day before Easter, and thus a very slow news day to begin with (and that may be the reason Apple choose April 3rd), but the biggest story of the day is the debut of the iPad: (CNN) — Thousands of people crowded Apple […]
The big rumor today is that Apple is apparently working on a version of the iPhone for Verizon Wireless customers: HONG KONG/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A subsidiary of Taiwan netbook PC pioneer Asustek has won orders to manufacture Apple’s iPhone to run on the CDMA standard, a source said on Tuesday. Apple is said to […]
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