Larry Lessig notes that in Japan you can get 100 mbs Net service for $50 a month. That doesn’t sound like either cable modem or DSL. Knowing little about broadband technology, I want to know how it works. Is it based on coaxial cable, phone lines, wireless, or even fiber optic cable? […]
Robert Pilon appreciates the blessing of liberty from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution:
In the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson set out certain “self-evident truths,” the foundations of freedom: “that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of […]
Since Yahoo is buying Inktomi, how long will it be until it dumps Google?
“Yahoo! to Buy Inktomi for $235 Million”
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Looking at my hits, I’d say TAM readers are busy with their Christmas preparations. I hope some of them took my shopping advice. Last night, I celebrated Christmas with my mother’s side of the family. It was a fun, but late night, and I had to work early this morning. What […]
The Two Towers is doing better at the box office than last year’s Fellowship of the Ring. New Line Cinema expects the film to top the $1 billion mark in ticket sales.
“Fantasy Wins out at the Movies“
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Arianna Huffington praises webloggers for generating the energy that sent Trent Lott to the political cleaners.
She writes that most webloggers are “unpaid amateurs” but mentions people like Glenn Reynolds, Mickey Klaus, and Andrew Sullivan. These three are paid intellectuals. Reynolds posts as a hobby when he’s not grading law tests. Klaus and Sullivan […]
King at SCSUScholars reports that St. Cloud State College Republicans and the university administration are working on an apology. However, there’s no word on whether the professors will apologize. On a lighter note, the CRs have a letter from the Israeli Embassy approving their use of the Israeli flag.
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Today began the last weekend before Christmas. It’s a time of packed stores and short tempers. This is my fifth Christmas season working in a major specialty retailer. Here are some helpful hints to make your last-minute shopping more productive.
Prepare a list before you head out. Have some ideas of what […]
In the interest of pursuing the best possible agenda for the future of our country, I will not seek to remain as Majority Leader of the United States Senate for the 108th Congress, effective January 6, 2003. To all those who offered me their friendship, support and prayers, I will be eternally grateful. I will […]
John Hawkins has a list of the most annoying liberals for 2002. I won’t give away #1, but here’s a hint: he’s a Nobel Prize winner.
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National Review and TAM both agree that Lott should go because he’s a poor leader, and his gaffe proves his ineptitude.
We have long considered Lott a clumsy and ineffective Republican leader, and his controversial Strom Thurmond birthday remarks are a spectacular confirmation of that judgment. Is Lott a racist? We don’t think so. Are many […]
Bill Clinton: the ex-President who can’t keep his mouth shut said the GOP and conservatives are “pretty hypocritical” for coming down hard on Trent Lott.
“How do they think they got a majority in the South anyway?” Clinton told CNN outside a business luncheon he was attending. “I think what they are really upset about is […]
Will black activists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton castigate anyone who praises Woodrow Wilson? Charles Paul Freund points out some of his awful, racist actions. As Princeton president, Wilson turned away black applicants. As President, he segregated areas in federal buildings. He even told a group of blacks that “segregation […]
Sen. Bill Frist will challenge Sen. Trent Lott for majority leader. Frist has to defeat years of Lott’s back slapping and an apperance that he’s too close to the White House. A Senator told The Washington Post, “The backlash has started. We were elected, we are senators and we want to pick […]
There will probably be little posting tonight. I’ve put off my Christmas shopping for too long. Today is my last day off before my festivities begin.
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