Left-wing conspiracy

Posted by Richard Bennett

I wanted to see what people are saying about Krugman today, but the Technorati: Link Cosmos is empty just for this one article.
The left doesn’t want you to know what a liar Krugman is, apparently.
UPDATE: I’ve shamed Technorati into showing some links, but it’s a small list.
UPDATE AGAIN: It looks like Technorati has finally more [...]

Economy growing

Posted by Richard

This seems like important news:

WASHINGTON (AP) – The economy grew at a scorching 7.2 percent annual rate in the third quarter in the strongest pace in nearly two decades. Consumers spent with abandon and businesses ramped up investment, compelling new evidence of an economic resurgence.
I wonder why this isn’t headlines?
UPDATE: Reader points out that it [...]

The Enemy Here is George Bush

Posted by Richard Bennett

See Michael Totten in Tech Central Station – The Crucial Alliance:

Last month at a Democratic Party debate Howard Dean said “we need to remember that the enemy here is George Bush.” This was during an argument with Dick Gephardt about Medicare. At the same time, the mullahs in Iran and the Stalinist tyrant in North [...]

Orrin Hatch is insane

Posted by Richard Bennett

Jesus Christ, look at this attempt to bring more foreign tech workers into the US:

WASHINGTON — Proposals to allow more high-technology foreign workers into the U.S. are gaining ground on Capitol Hill, despite complaints that plenty of Americans are available to fill the jobs.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) is pushing a plan [...]

The Future of Mediocrity

Posted by Richard

Larry Lessig?s book The Future of Ideas is an examination of the Internet?s influence on social discourse as well as an analysis of the forces shaping the net in the past and present. The message is both utopian and apocalyptic, and the analysis aspires to be technical, cultural, and legal. It?s an ambitious enterprise that [...]

Etherbod

Posted by Richard Bennett

Technology Review: Human Body Network Gets Fast

Researchers from NTT Docomo Multimedia Labs and NTT Microsystem Integration Labs in Japan have demonstrated a 10-megabits-per-second indoor network that uses human bodies as portable ethernet cables.
The network, dubbed ElectAura-Net, is wireless, but instead of using radio waves, infrared light, or microwaves to transmit information it uses a combination [...]

Advancing the Internet

Posted by Richard

Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D, CO) is fighting the good fight against a distasteful coalition of Internet merchandisers who want to stifle innovation. She points out the irony of a collection of companies who’ve profited from the free and open network seeking to impose draconian regulations on cable companies:

Much of the commercial success of the Internet [...]

To Burtonize: a verb

Posted by Richard

There’s been a fair degree of whining on the left about the audacity of Tom DeLay’s redistricting in Texas, simply because DeLay is a Republican and therefore a lightning rod for left-wing hate. There is apparently some democratic principle, knowable only to those with rarefied sensibilities, that dictates a state with a 60% Republican population [...]

Over-taxed and over-spent

Posted by Richard

One of the myths swirling around the California budget deficit is a claim that tax rates in the Golden State are modest. This is hard to swallow when we look at neighboring states. Oregon has no state sales tax, and an income tax rate that peaks out at 9 percent. California’s peaks at 9.3 percent.
Washington, [...]

Sleight of blog

Posted by Richard

George Lakoff is a student of propaganda and influence who uses his learning to take shots at moderate and conservative Americans in the interest of his left wing values. His method is pretty transparent once you’ve seen it a couple of times. He ostensibly tosses out a theory of journalism that attempts to wring some [...]