Archive for July, 2011
Clearing the Browser Tabs – All Your Google Plus Are Belong To Me Monday Edition
I’ve been tinkering around with the new Google Plus social media platform for a bit over a week and I have to say, I like it. I’ve never been a big fan of Facebook (I still don’t have a personal page and I added a fan page for The Delivery only grudgingly). As of this [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Debt Ceiling Stuff You Need to Know Sunday Edition
The debt ceiling talks will likely continue well into the evening tonight after the talks pretty much imploded late last night. Here are a couple or three points to remember. 1) Do not trust anything the MSM says about John Boehner and a deal. They’re getting their information directly from the White House and you [...]
Keep the Focus: Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious are Not the Same Thing.
There’s an old saying that says, roughly, “It’s not the crime that kills you; it’s the cover-up”. Right now the Obama administration is on the verge of being killed by the almost daily revelations of how it came to be that over 2,000 guns passed from the United States, under the watchful eyes of the [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Getting Our Act Together Saturday Edition
Let’s do two stories above the bullets today, what do you say? I figure I owe you an extra juicy link today since I failed to delivery a Clearing the Browser Tab post yesterday. I took a bit of an unscheduled day off and caught up on sleep and some other non-internet work I needed [...]
“Because I am an American. And I Can”
There are days I am immensely proud of my friends. Today is one of those days. Prompted by the story about which I wrote in this post, Ben Domenech posted a series of tweets that together are as eloquent a defense of the wonder that is America as I’ve ever read. With his permission, I [...]
Left-Wing “Economist” Vanquishes Paul Ryan with Impeccable Logic and Liquor Breath, but Mostly with Liquor Breath
Talking Points Memo has a story today of true heroism (via memeorandum). A brave left-wing Rutgers economist saw Paul Ryan in cahoots with evil right-wing lobbyists and actively oppressing the poor and downtrodden of America. Unable to resist the righteous fervor welling in her heart she confronted the blackguard, spoke truth to power to him, [...]
Operation Fast and Furious Gets Strange and Sinister
The story around Operation Fast and Furious has reached the stage where large chunks of it no longer fit neatly into a straight-line narrative. Let me see if I can bring you up to speed. First, the “simple” story. Arizona police arrested five people in April outside of Phoenix with at least 500 grams of [...]
Soon, You Can Björk Your iPad.
I admit, even though I love when people take “old” media and find new ways to present it with new technology, I’m torn on this story. The iPad 2 commercials that boast about how Apple’s tablet lets you “touch the stars” and “listen to a magazine” are cool and all, but Steve Jobs could probably [...]
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