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MoveOn has set up a website where people can offer free housing to homeless victims of Hurricane Katrina, and where those homeless can find housing.Their hearts are in the right place. But do they really think that people are surfing the web from New Orleans right now?UPDATE: Besides the Interdictor, of course.

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I'm pretty much at a loss for words after reading this article from Reuters: The State Department said offers so far had come from Belgium, Canada, Russia, Japan, France, Germany, Britain, China, Australia, Jamaica, Honduras, Greece, Venezuela, the Organization of American States, NATO, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, South Korea, Israel and the

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Yesterday was July 4th, a day on which Americans paused to celebrate the liberty we hold so dear. When it was proclaimed in 1776, winning our freedom was far from certain, as it would take five more years of fighting to secure. American freedom exists because of men and women who have made great personal sacrifices, endured extreme hardship, and faced our enemies on the field of battle.Even as

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I'm convinced that the ACLU is a domestic enemy. I don't say this lightly... Before I became better informed about the group's true nature, I thought that its stated goal, "to conserve America's original civic values - the Constitution and the Bill of Rights" sounded like something everyone should support. I never joined, and it didn't take long to figure out that I had made a wise decision.I

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It didn't say anything worth reading, and I've calmed down since posting it. I'm still no fan of the Real ID Act though.

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People have various reasons for blog absences. They get busy with work, with family, with vacation time, etc. In my case I have had other things going on, but I also got fed up with Blogger a while back when every attempt to post became an exercise in frustration. No, make that infuriation.Check out the Blogger Status page if you're not aware of this system's infamously horrible reliability.

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I've heard of satellites in low-earth orbit, but this seems a bit extreme.While Great Britain led the way in the mid-'70s, Keefe marks the U.S., Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore and many others as current participants, taking satellite pictures from 10 miles up, sending submarines to hover silently and aiming portable laser devices to pick up conversations inside rooms. (Emphasis mine)I can't imagine

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From Boing Boing, how the Department of State's plan to include RFID tags on passports could make Americans easy targets.

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Will the committed internationalist set (EU, UN) ever learn the lesson that you can't take a dictator at his word? The two posts below illustrate that the EU doesn't get it, and this does the same for the UN.DAMASCUS, Syria - President Bashar Assad reiterated his commitment to withdrawing all Syrian troops and intelligence agents from Lebanon, a U.N. envoy said Saturday, adding he would present

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That didn't take long.Iran has rejected a new US policy offering economic incentives to the Islamic state to give up its nuclear enrichment programme."No pressure, bribe or threat can make Iran give up its legitimate right" to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, said an Iranian spokesman.This action is option 3 from my post below. My prediction: The EU will cling for dear life to the

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It was announced today that the President has decided to support the three big EU countries (France, Germany, and the UK) in offering incentives to Iran in exchange for a promise to give up Iran's quest for nuclear weapons. I think there's more to the story than the "sharp shift in policy," as the Washington Post calls it. I'll get into that in a minute, but first the details: President Bush

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Several people get their personal ChoicePoint files and find them filled with mistakes. Some ridiculous, some possibly damaging. ChoicePoint, as it turns out, has no mechanism for correcting the errors. It makes me wonder what they think they know about me. Click the link below to read the article. I would post some snippets, but the entire thing deserves reading. If you're like me, your

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I've got a great idea. Why don't we stop storing sensitive personal information on networked machines? For that matter, can we stop it from being collected and commoditized in the first place?First ChoicePoint, now this:NEW YORK - Using misappropriated passwords and identifications from legitimate customers, intruders got access to personal information on as many as 32,000 U.S. citizens in a

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Some really cool research in particle physics will be enabled by the completion of the Large Hadron Collider, a... well, large particle accelerator in Switzerland. Today the 27-km tunnel got a key component.The first of some 5,000 magnets that will bend particles at near light-speed around a huge tunnel under Switzerland has been lowered into place.What is the purpose of this behemoth? To

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Please click here.Then click here for an explanation.

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Pet peeve alert. I can't stand it when the press uses language like this:WASHINGTON — Lawmakers called Thursday for an end to the Pentagon's ban on gays in the military, citing findings in a government report that the prohibition hurts recruiting and retention even as the war in Iraq strains the military's ability to maintain its troop strength.(Emphasis mine.) I highlighted the phrase "

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"This ad hominem attack has all the charm and flair of a college student engaging in his first Usenet flame war in 1983."Ouch.(Hat tip: FrazzleDad, or Rob's comment on FrazzleDad's post, via Instapundit.)The ad hominem attack in question can be found here, in a piece by Michael Gorman, President of the American Library Association.I'll just make one comment here, if I may. Echoing others, it's

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According to Ed Mick, I'm a Conservative In Name Only.I score myself a 5 on this scale. I display 4 of the 15 signs of being a CINO, and 1/2 of two others. That's "borderline" on Ed's CINO scale.And that's fine with me. I've never considered ideological rigidity and strict conformity to be a good thing. Nor is it good for any political party. Taken a look at the Democrats lately?

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The Los Angeles Times makes the case (unsurprising for the source) that you're too stupid to handle your own retirement. Like it or not, this is the main reason why liberals and the MSM oppose private accounts to supplement Social Security. They believe that you, your friends, your family, and your neighbors are all just too damn ignorant to take care of yourselves.The article hammers the point

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Neil Prakash catches al Jazeera lying. Yeah, I know. Contain your shock.

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Winds of Change reports that a Tulsa newspaper has sent a threatening letter to a Tulsa blogger. They allege that he has infringed upon the newspaper's copyright, by, among other things, linking to their website. Get that? Driving traffic to a newspaper's website is copyright infringement.Great open letter to the Tulsa World from Wizbang here. All I can say is "What he said."And what Michelle

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So say the results of a recently released Norwegian study.Now, lobsters are a big deal here in Maine. I mean, fill in the blank here: Live ____ Lobsters. Unless you're Canadian and get yours from Nova Scotia, you probably thought "Maine." I have even seen signs outside restaurants in Paris advertising "Homards du Maine."So when some people protest the use of lobsters as food, a few Mainers

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Democrats Ready to Follow Howard Dean's Lead

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If you don't know who Ward Churchill is, this post isn't going to interest you much. So, I'm not going to explain all the background.I just want to quote him at his most offensive. Many of you have already read his words, so bear with me. There's a point at the end. And now, Churchill:Well, really. Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent?

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(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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