According to National Review writer (and self-styled philanthropist) John J. Miller, a little shame is good medicine for the one-in-eight Americans currently taking advantage of state welfare: The federal government may think it’s doing people a favor by providing them with access to food, but it’s doing them a disservice if it also robs them [...]
Ever wonder why Pakistanis fear the US more than they fear the Taliban? In this appearance on GRITtv, Jeremy Scahill provides some good reasons why they might, and why you should too: Beginning almost immediately after September 11th, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld essential segregated JSOC (about JSOC) from the rest [...]
The Financial Times is saying that Microsoft is ready to pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to remove its news content from Google (no one tell Fox about robots.txt, please). The fact that this is a user-hostile strategy — users don’t keep track of which companies may be listed in which search engine — is right [...]