Howie Kurtz on the media coverage ( Read more... )

This is a video song file...
from a fellow named James Blunt.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

The outrage of the week comes from a presentation from an executive with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina to a legislative committee studying the cost of health insurance. BCBSNC Vice President John Friesen told the committee that lifestyle is the biggest driver of rising health care costs. Friesen listed obesity, tobacco use and depression ( Read more... )

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Domestic vs International

Take a look at this little movie...

CSA: The Confederate States of America

New Senate Broadcast Flag Bill Would Freeze Fair UseYou say you want the power to time-shift and space-shift TV and radio? You say you want tomorrow's innovators to invent new TV and radio gizmos you haven't thought of yet, the same way the pioneers behind the VCR, TiVo, and the iPod did ( Read more... )

Senator Graham is on CNN right now talking about how Judge Alito is being accused of bigotry using "guilt by association" simply because he belonged to an organization that may have said some bad things ( Read more... )

Down in Virginia - fun, fun, fun - the Beach Boys play at the inaugural concert of Gov.-elect Tim Kaine (D-VA) at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. On Saturday, Kaine becomes the first governor of the Old Dominion to be sworn into office in Williamsburg, VA since Thomas Jefferson.

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity. Here's the relevant language ( Read more... )

This from the LeftCoaster... A Hero and a Toady

A real American hero died yesterday.It was 1968. Lt. Calley and his troops were raping and killing the peasants in the village of My Lai, South Vietnam. The pilot of a US helicopter, Hugh Thompson Jr., couldn’t believe the scene he and his crew witnessed from the air. Thompson set his bird down on ( Read more... )