Daniel Larison – no admirer of liberalism or Obama or Democrats, mind you – has been running against the tide of late by arguing that the Republicans do not stand to gain as much in the mid term elections this year as conventional wisdom woud dictate. His analysis of Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts in…

Since religious demogougery hasn’t worked out so well for Al Qaeda’s attempt to win hearts and minds of the muslim masses, Osama bin Laden is trying a new strategy: scare ’em with science: Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States…

The White House has released some excerpts of the State of the Union speech and I am posting them below. My (brief) comments follow. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 27, 2010 EXCERPTS OF THE PRESIDENT’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS We face big and difficult challenges. And…

The tech blogsphere is obsessed with Apple’s announcement of it’s new iPad tablet device today (personally, I’d have called it Newton 2). Frankly I don’t think the new device makes much sense from a consumer perspective and has zero chance of displacing Amazon’s Kindle from it’s throne – the Kindle is to books as the…

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