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What the Security State Hath Wrought
A citizen of a Western European country, who works in the United States for a fast-growing Internet startup company, writes today:In many of your TSA related post, a key theme is the illusion of...
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Facebook, Google, and the Future of the Online 'Commons'
As part of digesting the meaning of the Era of the Facebook IPO, please check out an essay today by Dave Winer, which builds on one yesterday by John Battelle, which itself was a response to one the...
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On That Promised Iran-Debate Update—Updated!
[Please see UPDATES below.] Earlier this week I said that I would soon be presenting a bunch of links and highlights on the emerging debate over a military showdown with Iran. I said that, in contrast...
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America's Top Spy: We Don't Know Whether Iran Is Even Trying to Build a Bomb
What I am about to mention is not "news" and will be familiar to people following the Iran story. But it is important. Precisely because there is so much daily chatter about a possible military strike...
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Superbowl Special! My Nominee for Most Revolting Ad
During the 2010 midterm-election campaign, I said that the "Chinese Professor" ad was the bit of political persuasion/propaganda most likely to be remembered long after the campaign. Of course, that...
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Today's Bomb-Iran Reading List
1) The weakest case anyone has made in public for going to war, from a celebrity professor. Reflect upon this being published in a leading magazine.2) Historical analysis worth reflecting on (including...
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'Where's My Flying Car?'
It is humanity's deepest question. Or at least for the one seven-billionth of humanity represented by me. Today AVweb answers the question in an unexpected way. For previous installments in the...
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More on the 'We Take Your Jobs' Hoekstra Commercial
Maybe everyone else in politics-land knew this, but I was interested to learn:- The brains behind the ad belonged to Fred Davis, shown in a picture from his bio at his company's site.- Davis was also...
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This Is So Classy: 'Yellow Girl'
Thanks to TPM for a tip to what you see if you examine the HTML code* of the Pete Hoekstra / Fred Davis "we take your jobs" video.The image of the "Chinese" girl in the video, who speaks...
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HTML to the Rescue! The Saga of Hoekstra and 'Yellow Shirt Girl'
Who says that the people behind Pete Hoektra's "Your economy get very weak" ad are insensitive?They haven't changed the ad itself, or the "Debbie Spend It Now" site festooned in nonsense Chinese and...
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Promised 'Red Tails' Update: Go See It
As anticipated last month, I finally saw the George Lucas adventure movie about the Tuskegee Airmen, Red Tails. Here is how some of the real Tuskegee Airmen looked:And??? OK, it's not Shakespeare. The...
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Bomb-Iran Drumbeat Watch: An Ongoing Series
Today's installment comes from Mike Lofgren, familiar in these pages for his observations after a career working mainly for Republicans in the Congress. He begins:For most of my three-decade career...
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In-House News: Reddit Session Today Noon - 1pm EST
For devotees of Reddit IAMA sessions, I will be doing a live question-and-answer session there today starting at noon east coast time. FYI it will be at Reddit.com/r/iama.Thanks to the Atlantic's Jared...
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YellowShirtGirl: Finale on 'Ominous Asian' Imagery
Finale, at least from me. A few incoming items on the "we take your jobs" / "YellowShirtGirl" discussion.1) From Julia Kim Smith, a further HTML exploration. [If you're tempted to write in: No, that's...
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If You Are Feeling Sorry for Mitt Romney After the Results Last Night
To lift your spirits you might watch this now-famous bit from Jon Stewart four years ago, after Romney dropped out of that year's race against John McCain. The part from time 2:50 to 4:15 is the heart...
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Obama Story Is Online
Much of this past fall I was interviewing political figures to get their judgments on what-we-know, and how-we-know it, about President Obama's successes and failures in office so far. The results are...
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Super-Cool Obama and the Spectre of the Angry Black Man
I'll start posting some of the reactions I've gotten to my current cover story that tries to make sense of President Obama's successes and failures in his first three years in office. Not many people...
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Today's 'Even Aerospace Engineers Have a Sense of Humor' Entry
Check out Flight Aware's track of the route of the Boeing Commercial Aircraft Group's flight 236 yesterday. This is the route the plane actually took, as logged by Air Traffic Control radar. Look at it...
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Super-Cool Obama, Super-Hot Christie, and a Book by Harper Lee
Following my cover story in the current issue, and this message from an African-American professional woman, Nancy Wallace, about the Jackie Robinson-like pressure on Obama not to "let down his race,"...
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'State of the WaPo' Watch: Two Articles Worth Reading
I assume it was by serendipity rather than design that both the New York Times and the Washington Post had bracing articles today on the way the way the Post is being forced to, or is deciding to,...
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