Federal regulators to target e-mail

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Federal regulators to target e-mail that cons consumers
Deceptive junk e-mail is the latest target for federal regulators seeking to purge the Internet of fraud.

The Federal Trade Commission will announce in the next couple of weeks its first effort to prosecute con artists who specifically use e-mail spam to dupe consumers, said Howard Beales, the agency’s [...]

Networks Need a Reality Check ">Networks Need a Reality Check

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This is the op-ed that got Bernie Goldberg ostracized by his colleagues at CBS News.
Networks Need a Reality CheckA firsthand account of liberal bias at CBS News. BY BERNARD GOLDBERG
Wednesday, January 2, 2002 12:01 a.m. EST
(Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 13, 1996. You can order Mr. Goldberg’s [...]

A Comment Davis Won’t Let Riordan Forget ">A Comment Davis Won’t Let Riordan Forget

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L. A. Times columnist George Skelton touts Gray Davis’ attack ads on Richard Riordan:
…it’s easy to understand why Davis couldn’t resist smacking Riordan after he watched an old TV interview of Riordan calling abortion “murder.”
Riordan’s currently running in a primary where his opponents are hitting him for not being conservative and pro-life enough to be [...]

Full text of the speech:

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OnPolitics (washingtonpost.com)
Have a ball.
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State of the Union –

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The President gave an excellent political speech tonight, charting a clear course for the nation, uplifting without being too sentimental or leaving any scraps on the table for the left to fuss over (read poor Oliver Willis for some insight into how demoralized they are.) Bush reached out to the crossover constituencies he attracted in [...]

A real Enron scandal –

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For those who wonder why analysts didn’t blow the whistle on Enron prior to the inglorious collapse, this Wall St. Journal article (requires subscription) explains it all:
Financial analysts who tracked Enron Corp. have taken a pounding for being company “shills” and for failing to concede they didn’t fully understand the Houston energy-trading concern’s complex finances.
Then [...]

More bad news for Atheros:

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80211Planet – News: Industry First 802.11g Chip Set Announced
Intersil Corporation today announced the industry’s first chip set designed to support the IEEE 802.11g draft standard. The Intersil PRISM GT chip set, operating in the 2.4 Ghz band, will enable data transmission speeds of up to 54 Mbps with backwards compatibility to 802.11b infrastructures. This news [...]

Why there are blogs –

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I invented the personal web log form back in 1994 in order to bring about the counter-spin Mickey Kaus and Andrew Sullivan applied to the New York Times yesterday. Now I can die knowing that the world is a better place for my having been here, not that I’m planning to, although a vacation would [...]

Rubbing their noses in it –

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The next time our media elite want to trash the President for not being sufficiently book-learned, he can tell them about the last book he read:

President Bush waves as he walks out of the White House in Washington, headed for Portland, Maine, where he is focusing on border and harbor security, Friday, Jan. 25, [...]

Like, you know –

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Joanne Jacobs has a revelation about the teachers’ union and Charter Schools in Welcome to readjacobs.com:
Teachers’ unions are trying to “absorb” the charter school movement, writes Michael Antonucci of the Education Intelligence Agency. He uses union strategy reports to make his case.
It’s really not an obscure connection: last year, San Franciso Assemblywoman Carole Migdon carried [...]