There was a terrible two-car accident in Jacksonville Sunday night that left two teens dead and five other people hospitalized with serious injuries. Around 8:30 p.m., a Chevy Silverado going north on Phillips Highway near the Avenues Mall collided with a southbound private ambulance turning left near Interstate 95. [...]
Chris Soghoian posts a bombshell or two at slight paranoia: 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight
Executive Summary
Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure [...]
Apparently, at Goldman, Sachs they're not just feeling the heat, they're packing it too:
“I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for [...]
Financial recovery may be slow after the economic meltdown, but there is hope this holiday season according to a new Zogby Interactive poll. Seventy two percent of adults say they either already consider themselves poor (20 percent) or can imagine becoming poor (52 percent), yet Americans can see light at [...]
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Two headlines on the same page of Talking Points Memo:Huckabee Commuted Sentence Of Suspected Cop KillerHuckabee Not Sure About A Presidential Run In 2012Asked and answered. [...]
Subsidies for me, but [...]
Glenn Greenwald labels Sen. Evan Bayh as The face of rotted Washington.
And not without reason.
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Labor Day is a now three months behind us,
Remember after the 2008 Democratic primary finally ended and candidate Obama took the family to Hawaii for a little vacay? Remember how the Republicans labeled him “elitist” for doing so? Let me refresh your memory, just in case.
TNR’s Michael Crowley noted:
I know he grew up [in [...]
The Crista Flanagan's MadTV parody of Miley Cyrus nails the vapid of this bizarre pop culture phenomenal.The mid-term elections, since the President's historic win last year, occur in 2010. As typical of most elections, some surprises occurred in 2008--notably, Democrats elected from districts where the voters also preferred Barack Obama's opponent, Senator John McCain (R., AZ). Lumping first and second term members together, the total number falling in [...]
One allure of the swamp is its timelessness. It has a primordial feel that defies a date and is immune to the tick of any clock.
I just finished my traditional Thanksgiving weekend marathon of the special edition of 
