The only case that our friends at the RIAA have won so far in their quest to stop music piracy is now about to take an interesting new twist.
Last year, Jammie Thomas became the poster child for the RIAA, the person that in their opinion was lower than a snakes belly. For ‘file sharing’ something […]

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More troops - significantly more - are needed to maintain the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pentagon officials recently acknowledged the fact that existing troops have been assigned multiple rotations and shorter periods between combat assignments in order to take up the slack.
The answer is clear: recruit more troops. But normal recruiting efforts have come […]

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British PM, Gordon Brown, gave a speech almost exactly 20 years after a former prime minister evoked a muted response to her quote: “If a man will not work he shall not eat.” Margaret Thatcher made her stance known that she felt the open and free market economy would be the answer to all of […]

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The name Dan Catullo may not be a name on everyones lips, but he is the man behind the band when it comes to video and audio recording of a concert. The world has changed a lot from the days where you just smuggled a cassette recorder into a Grateful Dead concert. Dan Catullo is […]

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Ellen DeGeneres made an announcement on her talk show Friday morning that got her a standing ovation. “So I would like to say now, for the first time, I am announcing: I am getting married,” she said during the show. She and her long time girlfriend, Portia de Rossi has decided to take the plunge.
The […]

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By Matthew Mayer
This article isn’t about the pros and cons of payday loans.  For that discussion, just read this or this or this.  The facts about payday loans are clear.   They work.  They’re needed.  They need some reform, but not run out of the state.
So this article is directed at the self-serving, self-dealing politicians that […]

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One has to wonder? First we had stories about the Rambo like Blackwater company, shooting with impunity through the country. Now we have news about two other ‘civilian’ operations. These are companies that love to keep a low profile, they make millions of dollars, but they don’t advertise, and only have one buyer, yes you […]

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Dr. Sally Satel in the Wall Street Journal is proposing that we pay for kidneys. She got hers from a friend, so she is aware of the problem of waiting for a kidney first hand.
However, when she laments that the Philippines is the latest country to “get tough” on organ transplants from paid donors, one […]

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