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CIA: We Only Spied On Senate Intelligence Committee Because They Took Classified Documents That Prove We're Liars. [ Link ] Earlier th...

Misappropriation. [ Link ] From  Salon  comes an article called “Why I can’t stand white belly dancers,” with the subtitle “Whether they ...

I bet we'll start seeing hoodies with this soon for protesters. [ Link ] On Hackaday, Shenzhen...

Because they are only interested in diversity of appearance, not diversity of thought. [ Link ] There is a disgraceful double standard am...

Wasn't that the entire point of this slow motion train wreck? [ Link ] ObamaCare isn’t achieving its primary goal of extending covera...

Canadian adult channels are not airing enough local made content. [ Link ] For failing to broadcast sufficient levels of Canadian-made po...

No one is allowed to have judgement anymore, no matter how stupid it is. [ Link ] A ninth-grader says she has frostbite after standing ou...

I didn't think it was possible - but it is. [ Link ] Email is broken because it’s far easier to send someone a message that creates w...

Keith Alexander Supports Law To Gag Press So He Can Get His Preferred Online Surveillance Bill Passed. [ Link ] He's flat out admittin...

Getting out of a DUI arrest is a perk from having a relative be a cop. [ Link ] Duncan said that the car blew through the stop sign “with...

Ouch. [ Link ] SLATE:   Why Obama Got Russia Wrong (and Romney Got It Right).  “So you see the p...

Yup. [ Link ] It is  Accepted Wisdom ™ that: U.S. intelligence told Bush that Saddam tried to buy yellowcake in Niger. Bush claiming to...

5-year-olds and calculus. [ Link ] Finding an appropriate path hinges on appreciating an often-overlooked fact—that “the complexity of th...

The Round Table wasn't all white and pasty. [ Link ] CONCLUSIONS: Three major Knights of the Round Table were canonically men of co...

Lego thinks about letting customers print their own blocks. [ Link ] With the toy industry stagnating due to competition from digital game...

How about we only collect phone data on terrorists? [ Link ] In what may be NSA boss Keith Alexand...

The deal to expedite was no deal. [ Link ] Perhaps the biggest fiction of this past year was that the IRS's targeting of conservativ...

Drink up. [ Link ] The idea that Medieval people drank beer or wine to avoid drinking bad water is so established that even some very ser...

From hope to reality. [ Link ] In The Nation, Karen Greenberg discerns 5 Commandments Obama proclaimed when he came into office in 2009.  ...

Listen to the NSA's Inspector General. [ Link ] What's more troubling is how Ellard views the press. Ellard calls the journalists ...