The anchorman's serious tone and dancing eyebrows -- not to mention a "The Palins and the Fringe" banner across the bottom of the screen -- suggested big surprises. Must-see TV! And all of it coming "right after the break."
So I holstered the remote for a couple of minutes and waited to see what CNN was up to.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he wants to allow portable devices to use the airwaves between TV channels for wireless broadband service.
After months of testing and over a year of lobbying by tech firms Google, Microsoft, HP, Dell and others, the FCC's engineering office is releasing a report today that spells out the standards devices must meet in order to use the empty airwaves.
CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: Barack Obama Has A Low Lifetime Rating Compared To John McCain's High Lifetime Rating
* Citizens Against Government Waste Gave Obama A Lifetime Rating Of 18 Percent. (Citizens Against Government Waste, "2007 Senate Ratings," councilfor.cagw.org, Accessed 10/4/08)
*Citizens Against Government Waste Gave McCain A Lifetime Rating Of 88 Percent. (Citizens Against Government Waste, "2007 Senate Ratings," councilfor.cagw.org, Accessed 10/4/08
David C. Kernell was indicted Tuesday on a single charge of accessing a protected computer by a grand jury in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee in Knoxville. The indictment, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, was unsealed Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Today I had the opportunity to call into a bipartisan bloggers conference call hosted by David All and Joe Trippi featuring a question and answer session with T. Boone Pickens regarding the Pickens Plan. You can listen to the audio of the call here.
Right now the United States is importing 70% of its oil from foreign countries costing us $700 billion annually (that number won’t just go away).
The Pickens Plan presents a clear solution to the cut down the dependence on foreign oil, which Pickens is spending $58 million dollars of his own money to advertise. His plan would not only reduce the amount of oil we import but would create jobs and stimulate economic growth.
The United States currently uses natural gas to produce 22% of our electricity. Pickens proposes we replace that with wind energy. He wants to build over 100,000 wind turbines throughout the “wind belt” (from Texas all the way north to Canada) over a ten-year period.
Pickens was asked: why now? Which is a reasonable question to ask an 80-year-old oil tycoon who could just go retire on a tropical island. Pickens said he noticed from Nixon forward that every president has promised an energy plan, but has done nothing. He understands this is his problem as much as ours.
Pickens made it clear his number one priority is to make sure America is not relying on other countries for oil for generations to come when he told the bloggers “Anything that reduces the dependence on foreign oil I’m for, as long it’s American.”
Pickens also touched on his meeting last week with Sarah Palin. He said their dialogue was mostly energy related and he thought she was qualified to handle energy policy on the national stage, more so than Obama or McCain.
Pickens will be hosting an e-rally before and after tomorrow night’s second presidential debate to talk about energy independence and the Pickens Plan. There are already 400,000 people signed up for it. To participate you can RSVP here.
It's interesting that energy, Palin's signature issue, never came up in the form of a question; she mentioned it in relation to questions about climate change and carbon emissions. As Ace noted, it's interesting that abortion never came up, nor guns. Nothing on earmarks, government waste, or much on the budget.
Starting at midnight, election.twitter.com will go live and will feature an interface that regular Twitter users will instantly recognize. There will be one major difference however. Gone is the famously outdated question “What are you doing?” (Twitter was initially just about people saying what they were doing), it has been replaced with “What do you think?”
The smear ad went viral on the Internet before it was pulled from YouTube but a blog site known as the Jawa Report recorded it and both ads are featured together on Ben Barrack’s home page where anyone can compare the female voices to come to their own conclusions as to whether or not they are the same person. Listen to it now here.
Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views.
FBI agents executed a search warrant Sunday at the apartment of University of Tennessee student David Kernell in connection with the hack of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's private Yahoo account.
According to a witness, several agents arrived at Kernell's Knoxville apartment in The Commons student housing complex shortly after midnight on Sunday morning while a party was in progress.
Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona, an original pork-buster and friend of reason, has just launched Pork Parade. The spare-looking site is a hub for a number of social networks that let the congressman name and shame earmarks in real time, from his campaign cell phone (although he's been using his campaign computer until he upgrades his phone).
I don’t care what they found. There is a line in the sand, on one side democracy, decency, freedom, on the other, fascism, indecency, slum, and terror. Gawker, and the media that remain enslaved by the myth of their legitimacy, have crossed the line. Whether Gawker broke the law, is not as important as whether they broke everything else.
We're getting ready to launch a refresh of parts of the Twitter.com interface. This release does not include any new features (well, one). It's mostly cosmetic changes. This post describes what we're doing and why.
I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family ....
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has launched a new Spanish-language TV ad that seeks to paint Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as anti-immigrant, even tying the Republican to his longtime conservative talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh. . .
Students are key drivers of change. They brought social networks into the mainstream, and now they are watching video online. They demand access to friends and information whenever they want and wherever they are.
With the Presidential election right around the corner, a new iPhone app called Campaign from Gorloch Interactive tries to provide you with all the dirt on both candidates to make you a “more-informed” voter.
I think here the media is on very dangerous ground. I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don't do that for all four of the candidates, they're on very dangerous ground. I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems.
As frequent readers know, I take vandalism of Wikipedia seriously, especially when it’s political in nature. So who would recommend such a thing? I googled his name, and this was the first result:
The Political Republican Opinion blog has found a couple of interesting articles on the web that political Republicans should find quite interesting. The first article shows how John McCain is continuing to grow campaign financing for the Republican coffers. The second, points out the many lies being told by Liberal bloggers in their panicked efforts to degrade John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate, Sarah Palin.
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