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Yet more evidence that privacy going away in the social media age.
Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.
Nathalie Blanchard, ...
Congress
James Inhofe
Yet more evidence that privacy going away in the social media age.
Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.
Nathalie Blanchard, ...
Congress
James Inhofe
Glenn Beck has a plan. Actually, the Plan. Which he reveals on his website.
Today, I have stopped looking for a leader to show us the way out because I have come to realize that the only one who can truly save our country…is us. To change America’s course we need to change ...
White House
Glenn Beck
James Inhofe
The University of East Anglia mail server was hacked earlier in the week and a string of private correspondences between esteemed climate scientists were published. In addition to some juicy internecine gossip becoming embarrassingly public, a few of the messages seem to reveal doubts ...
World
Global Warming
Michelle Malkin
James Inhofe
Ronald Reagan
Ed Gillespie
A CNN poll released today finds that “opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting.” According to the survey, “38 percent of the public blames Republicans for the country’s current economic problems. That’s ...
White House
Barack Obama
Gallup Poll
Recession
James Inhofe
Yesterday, the NYT and other outlets reported that former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided against running for governor of New York. But the Daily News is reporting that he is instead “very likely” to run in the special election to fill the remaining two years of Hillary ...
Congress
Rudy Giuliani
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Andrew Cuomo
James Inhofe
For the second time in a week, Fox News has been caught using old video to give the false impression of larger-than-actual turnout at appearances of politicos they supported. Sufficiently embarrassed at having been caught, Fox executives are promising “ serious disciplinary action ...
Other
Fox News
Amanda Carpenter broke the news Tuesday that “The government Web site that promised to show exactly where the $787 billion in stimulus spending was going to ‘create or save’ jobs is allocating billions of tax dollars to hundreds of congressional districts that don’t ...
Congress
James Inhofe
A few months ago, when Ross Douthat became a New York Times columnist, I was pretty excited that the Times had chosen a fresh, conservative perspective for its editorial pages. Since then, I admit I’ve been a little disappointed. Douthat’s columns have, by and large, been pretty ...
Congress
Mike Ross
Gail Collins proclaims the first ten years of the new millennium “the Decade of Medical Backtracking.”
Somewhere between the reports that Pap smears and tests for prostate cancer aren’t all they were cracked up to be and the news that a high fiber diet doesn’t do anything to ...
Congress
James Inhofe
Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Democratic candidate for Texas attorney general, claims a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages actually bans all marriages.
The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by voters, declares that “marriage in ...
Congress
James Inhofe
The Holy Toothpaste! Edition OTB Caption Contest ™ is now over.
✰ THE WINNERS ✰
First: yetanotherjohn – Behold the majestic eagle … as it is passed out of a joint committee with bipartisan support.
Second: FormerHostage – What’s the ...
Congress
Christopher J. Dodd
Barney Frank
The next episode of OTB Radio , our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live from 5:30-6:30 Eastern.
Dave Schuler and I will talk about Sarah Palin’s comeback tour and ensuing controversies and President Obama’s Asia trip. Alex Knapp will join us to provide his legal ...
White House
Sarah Palin
James Inhofe
Homeland Security
I missed this story last week, but apparently Pfizer is abandoning its New London headquarters , and the land that it used the power of government to steal from Kelo et al. now lays fallow.
Susette Kelo’s little, pink house in New London, Conn. — like the houses of all her ...
Other
Tomorrow night, the European Union will have its first-ever president. Time’s Leo Cendrowicz reports that few Europeans much care, perhaps because they have no voice in the selection.
In my New Atlanticist essay “ Europe’s President Selected, Not Elected ,” I both ...
Congress
James Inhofe
Washington, D.C
In my initial posting on the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial , I asserted that “there’s an incredibly good chance that Mohammed and his comrades will go free. The fact that KSM was repeatedly waterboarded would seem to taint any subsequent evidence, including his own confession.”
...
Law
Eric Holder
James Inhofe
Homeland Security
Marc Ambinder finds a hidden news story in this WaPo report by Perry Bacon:
Administration officials say they expect that as many as 40 of the 215 detainees at Guantanamo will be tried in federal court or military commissions. About 90 others have been cleared for repatriation or ...
White House
Barack Obama
James Inhofe
Homeland Security
Barack Obama has been president for just under 10 months but he’s added two trillion to the national debt and will double it by the end of the year. CBS’ Mark Knoller :
This latest milestone in the ever-rising journey of the National Debt comes less than eight months after it ...
