Grand jury indicts Democratic legislator's son as hacker of Sarah Palin's e-mail account

Last month, as The Ticket reported here, someone hacked into the private e-mail account of Alaska Gov. Sarah[ ... and sign up for free automatic and instant alerts of every new Ticket item sped directly to your cell. Photo credit: Associated Press [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 08:08:51

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State govs reject mysterious free laptops

Even during tight budgetary times, a growing handful of state governors are proving too wary to accept laptop computers that have shown up at their offices this month, unsolicited. Officials in West Virginia, Vermont, Wyoming and Washington state have reported receiving between three and five laptops , each over the course of two separate deliveries — but none had ordered any of them. “They immediately raised a red flag,” said Matt Turner, spokesman for West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-28 15:56:48

State govs saying ‘No thanks’ to mystery laptops

Even during tight budgetary times, a growing handful of state governors are proving too wary to accept laptop computers that have shown up at their offices this month, unsolicited. Officials in West Virginia, Vermont, Wyoming and Washington state have reported receiving between three and five laptops, each over the course of two separate deliveries — but none had ordered any of them. “They immediately raised a red flag,” said Matt Turner, spokesman for West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-28 19:31:12

The Sunday Funnies

To Honor Ted Kennedy, GOP Proposes That His Seat NEVER Be Filled By Don Davis - Satirical Political Report “THE ONLY WAY TO ENSURE THAT THE LEGACY OF SUCH A MONUMENTAL FIGURE IS PROPERLY HONORED IS TO LEAVE HIS SEAT PERMANENTLY VACANT … WHICH MIGHT BE A GOOD PRECEDENT FOR ALL DEMOCRATS WHO LEAVE THIS HALLOWED CHAMBER.” Bush Questions Brevity of Obama's Vacation Andy Borowitz - The Borowitz Report Short Break ‘Sends Wrong Message to Terrorists' Former president George W. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-29 23:41:00

P.G. Cops Invade Ward 7: Loose Lips Daily

As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com . And get LL Daily sent straight to your inbox every morning! IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—’ Why the WaPo’s Fenty Schooling ‘Explanation’ Is Not Convincing ‘; ‘ Pershing Park Case: Nickles Responds To Patterson’s Charges ‘ IN LL WEEKLY— The $300 Million Grab : Under new insurance boss, will the city plunder CareFirst’s cash reserves? Morning all. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-03 15:25:10

Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of September 9, 2009

Dragnet: On Assignment in the Nation’s Capitol - bobmccarty.com 09/09/2009 As a youngster, I was a huge fan of the television show, Dragnet .  With Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and his partner, Officer Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan), the show was kind of corny, but I liked it a lot more than most of the fare that flashes on the small screen today.  In the recently-released video mashup below, the cops from the 1960s police drama give President Barack Obama, the perpetrator of a modern-day [more...]

Date: 2009-09-09 12:57:43

Palin’s Advocacy: The Turning Point in Health Care Reform Debate

For an uneducated, unsophisticated rube and former governor from a backwater state, Sarah Palin sure can drive a debate.  With prospects for passage of his sweeping overhaul of the American health care delivery system fading with every speech, President Barack Obama is making  it increasingly clear that Palin will be recognized, for good or ill, as perhaps the most prominent single political figure responsible for stopping it in its tracks.It’s a remarkable story. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-19 07:01:30

Lt Gov Andre Bauer accused of being closeted gay

Photo of our esteemed Lieutenant Governor is from 67 Degrees . Wow, I thought it would be, you know, SOME OTHER SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICIAN ((whistles dixie, looks heavenward))) accused first. Andre Bauer? Well, damn. After I got some emails about this story and I learn that HuffPo is going with it , I have decided to report what THEY are saying. I see Bauer every day, or close to it, since he moved to Thornblade... [more...]

Date: 2009-09-01 19:47:00

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Date: 2009-09-04 07:25:50

Broad Cast 11 September 2009

(Alan Turing) Many historians credit the cracking of the German Enigma code by English mathematician Alan Turing with eventual Allied victory in World War II. At the very least, this breakthrough turned the tide of the war and saved untold thousands of lives. After the war, Turing went on to invent the Turing machine, which is considered the basis of all modern computing. For his accomplishments, in 1952 Turing was convicted of "gross indecency" because he admitted to having a gay relationship. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-11 19:00:00

UK anti-file sharing move angers ISPs

p2pnet news view | P2P |  Politics:- All is not well in Not-So-Great-Britain following the announcement, “People who persist in swapping copyrighted films and music will have their internet connections cut off under tough new laws to be proposed by the government,” as The Guardian summed it up. But some British ISPs, the people who’d have to make it work, and who’d also take the brunt of any repercussions from users, don’t see it like that. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-26 15:43:47

"Paranoia Strikes Deep..."

Study Links 45,000 U.S. Deaths to Lack of Insurance Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday. "We're losing more Americans every day because of inaction ... than drunk driving and homicide combined," Dr. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-19 04:23:00

Texas Rally: "We Hate the United States"

A new essay by Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Michael Mullen offers a “searing critique of government efforts at ‘strategic communication’ with the Muslim world,” saying that the U.S. needs to focus more on its actions. “Each time we fail to live up to our values or don’t follow up on a promise,” writes Mullen, “we look more and more like the arrogant Americans the enemy claims we are.” - ThinkProgress U.S. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-31 09:46:00

links for 2009-08-27

P.S. On Stephen Hawking and the UK NHS We took a lot of heat for using Stephen Hawking as an example of someone who'd suffer under a socialized health system. But a closer look at the treatment he got in the U.K. shows it wasn't all roses. Do we have to say more? The sorry reality is that a socialized program with no accountability and no competition is inferior to a free private system that must put its clients first — or go out of business. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-28 04:04:44

In The News Today

Thought for Today: The singular most important and least reported event today was the announcement of a settlement of the lawsuit brought by the Italian city against JP Morgan concerning OTC derivatives sold to that city. Normally the defendant will say the suit was settled in order to save the large expenses of protracted legal procedures. Generally the terms of settlement are sealed. That means kept secret by agreement of both parties. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-16 17:49:49

Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of October 1, 2009

Conference call: Tim Pawlenty and the Freedom First PAC - hotair.com 10/01/2009 We had an opportunity to talk with Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty to discuss the launch of his Freedom First PAC.  Pawlenty says that he’s worried that freedom is being corroded by a “tyranny of a creeping bureaucracy.”  Pawlenty wants to re-elevate the principles of freedom and liberty, including an effort to educate people on their value and to impact current policy.  Pawlenty plans a particular effort to [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 12:59:05

The Recession has Technically Ended: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Bernanke!

by Bob Chapman Global Research September 19, 2009 To borrow from an old joke about politicians, we ask our subscribers if they know how to tell when Helicopter Ben Bernanke, the current Fed Head, is lying. Answer: Whenever his lips are moving. Now we hear from the Dollar-Destroyer that our recession has technically ended (heaven forbid that we should call our current Fed-caused calamity a depression, which is what it has been since Obama took office). [more...]

Date: 2009-09-20 12:02:50

Not a West! Moment: Hi, my name is Jen and I'm your Matthew Bender Account Manager

« Attorney Use of Free Email Services and Third Party Communications | Main | "You have to start all over" when a new Justice joins SCOTUS: C-SPAN's Interviews with Supreme Court Justices » Jen has been my Matthew Bender account manager for about a year now but I haven't needed to call on her services much because, unlike the folks from the land of 10,000 invoices, you don't need to be a brainiac to understand the LexisNexis billing system. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-10 07:46:00

The Recession has Technically Ended, Is Bernanke Joking?

Economics / Recession 2008 – 2010 Sep 19, 2009 – 12:37 PMBy: Bob_Chapman To borrow from an old joke about politicians, we ask our subscribers if they know how to tell when Helicopter Ben Bernanke, the current Fed Head, is lying. Answer: Whenever his lips are moving. Now we hear from the Dollar-Destroyer that our recession has technically ended (heaven forbid that we should call our current Fed-caused calamity a depression, which is what it has been since Obama took office). [more...]

Date: 2009-09-20 13:34:31

George LeMieux For Senate? No Way

Gov. Charlie Crist cannot seriously be considering the appointment of George LeMieux to the Senate seat vacated by Mel Martinez. Such a move would undoubtedly bring new scrutiny to LeMieux’s improper business dealings with the state that Crist, despite his supreme confidence in his own invincibility, cannot afford. No one has profited off of the Crist administration quite like George LeMieux and the law firm he chairs, Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-24 06:01:48

Paterson Signs 60 Bills, Vetoes 18

Posted on Friday, 18 of September , 2009 at 4:45 pm ALBANY—Gov. David A. Paterson has signed 60 bills that he says together will improve the safety of families and children; increase access to, and quality of, health care for New Yorkers; and increase accountability among government contractors.  Additionally, he vetoed 18 bills, some that would have aided the disabled,  that, if signed, would have cost State taxpayers $28 million dollars over the next two years, according to himThe signed bills [more...]

Date: 2009-09-18 21:45:50

Eye On the Political Class: Democratic Tax Cheat Edition

"Oops! ... I did it again," is rumored to be Representative Charlie Rangel's new campaign song. You see, the Democrat from New York, hid, um, I mean ...uh, forgot to report his 2007 income "to the tune of more than a half-million dollars!" In his defense though, he has been very busy lately, trying to raise our taxes, institute a military draft, and squash free speech. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-29 22:21:03

Juarez murders already surpass total for 2008

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS Visit our website: http://www.nafbpo.org Foreign News Report The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-22 17:03:12

Where's the Outrage for Unemployed, Underemployed and Paycheck-to-Paycheck Living?

60% Living Paycheck to Paycheck by Karen Datko - MSN.com Counting down the hours until payday? You're not alone. As the economic downturn trudges on, many workers are struggling with household budgets. About six in 10 workers -- 61% -- report they always or usually live paycheck to paycheck just to make ends meet, compared with 49% last year and 43% in 2007, according to a new nationwide survey of more than 4,400 workers by CareerBuilder. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-24 05:57:00

Updates & Taxes on the 2009-2010 Economic Stimulus Credits and Payments

As 2009 draws to a close many folks have been wondering what is happening with the numerous economic stimulus credits and payments dispensed under President Obama's E conomic Stimulus package . I have written extensively about the key stimulus credits and deductions over the last 6 months as covered in some of the following posts, but here is a summarized update on each of them and the tax implications for those who have or will receive these payments. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-18 04:01:00

Fed “Shock & Awe,” What 0% Means, 2008 Pay Raises, Controversial Auto Survey and More!

by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Fed saves us from ourselves… details of the historic FOMC decision Dan Amoss and James Turk on the ... , a new survey the Big Three definitely won’t want to read Free money for everyone… forever ... that the Fed “will continue to consider ways of using its balance sheet to further support credit markets [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 20:11:42

Latin America News Round-up, 08-09-2009

You find all the news in the text …Honduras IMF says Honduras will not have access to its funds until de facto gov’t is recognized. Buenos Aires Herald. September 7, 2009. The International Monetary Fund said that Honduras will not be able to use the 163 million dollars in SDR that make up part of a larger sum of money, 250,000 dollars, until the organization recognizes the government.“The current de facto government will not be able to use these funds until a decision is made about [more...]

Date: 2009-09-10 15:45:12

GOP Target-->Barney Frank

Barney Frank and his Democratic friends have brought down the banking industry by forcing banks to give loans to people who couldn't afford them, ... . . . . According to the report below, Frank is FINALLY on the Republican Party hit list: McCain, GOP ... mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said Saturday that an Obama presidency combined with Democratic [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 00:56:56

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to spread this information...

Good news today for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin:  "Among "likely voters" which uses the traditional models of historical voting habits, ... '?  Will it be Joe the Terrorist?  ACORN? According to a report authored by Rob Paral and Associates, “The New ... credit for Obama's lead? Quite Possibly. How? Why? Joe the Terrorist does not want John [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 20:54:49

Rick Warren and Rev. Wright

scrubbing his church Web site to remove language that talked about banning gays from membership (though the church's apparent PR firm (what church has a PR firm?) just emailed me to say they have no rescinded their language on homosexuality, but rather they've "repurposed" it (repurposed?) in a series of videos. Whatever [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 19:18:14

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/2/2009

In tonight’s news: Israel is poised to send ground troops into Gaza.A Muslim family was removed from a plane before takeoff, and is being compensated by the airline for the error. CAIR is in high dudgeon about the incident.Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway — is that a message for President-eject Bush? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 04:42:00

Overview of AN – SNAFU – USA money spending and snafu par excellence

*** Secretive spending on US intelligence disclosed Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:00pm EDT By Adam Entous WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Intelligence activities across the U.S. government and military cost a total of $75 billion a year, the nation’s top intelligence official disclosed on Tuesday, revealing publicly for the first time an overall number long shrouded in secrecy. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-17 17:34:52

Fed “Shock & Awe,” What 0% Means, 2008 Pay Raises, Controversial Auto Survey and More!

Fed saves us from ourselves… details of the historic FOMC decision… Dan Amoss and James Turk on the implications of 0% interest rates… Dollar gets ... to further support credit markets and economic activity.” “This announcement,” Dan Amoss wrote ... metals.” In anticipation of this “shock and awe” rate decision, Dan helped his Strategic Short Report [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 19:08:51

If I Ruled the UK

They say you should read the sort of thing you write.  So I thought I’d have a look round some blogs this lunchtime ... (on behalf of the landlord, ha, ha) 6 months rent in advance - free credit in other words.  I’d just sold ... this is what I’d do, in response to some of her points:“1 Landlords are obliged to submit to the same credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:01:29

January 9, 10, 11 - Unemployment Risies to 7.2% - Highest Yearly Job Loss Since 1945 - Google Rumors - Freightliner Dismisses 2137 - Semitool Chips Away 280 Jobs - Union Pacific Derails 231 - Boeing to Layoff 4500? - Beechcraft Ending 1600 Jobs? - Seagate to Delete More this Month

                                     Mike: Good day to all. Today’s big number is the Employment Situation, which is released at 8:30 EST ... %.             * Breaking news: Yet another sobering government labor report released Friday showed the economy ... jobs report, the unemployment rate rose to 7.2% last month from 6.7% in November and higher than [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:51:10

DrumBeat: November 30, 2008

Oil majors eye $5-billion ships to cut costs London — Oil and gas companies are racing to develop a new type of vessel they hope will revolutionize offshore gas production but even if the untested technology works, its deployment could be blocked by resource holders who fear it will undermine development goals [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 14:33:22

DrumBeat: December 13, 2008

Greed, hatred, warfare and the race for fossil fuels NEITHER an optimistic nor a pessimistic prophet on energy, the author of "A Thousand Barrels a Second" states a simple fact: "civilization" makes us silly and greedy. Although Peter Tertzakian does not mean it, his vivid historical account of mankind's thirst for energy to pump up " [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 14:32:05

Friday wrap

Dem Congress to pump raw sewage into nation's workplaces ... The AFL-CIO advanced an argument detailing why a "majority sign-up" is the best option for preserving "the freedom of working people." Below is a syllogism that encapsulates an argument found on the AFL-CIO website.1. The workplace environment has been poisoned by browbeating employers.2 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 11:30:00

State Workers Fight Over Cutbacks as States Want More From Obama

As the budget crisis deepens, state employees are fighting each other for survival. Potshots are thrown between management vs. non-management, union vs. non-union, teachers vs. everyone else. In addition, governors want $1 trillion out of a total package of $850 billion Congress is likely to send to Obama to sign. The math does not add up [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 19:53:00

NY-Senate: Much Ado About Nothing (Yet)

NY-Senate: Much Ado About Nothing (Yet) Caroline Kennedy listens to a reporter's question during a news conference at City Hall in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. Kennedy is campaigning for the open Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Don Heupel) An Associated Press report this morning citing two anonymous sources [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 23:00:00

Big Changes In The Senate As The Parties Gear Up For Another GOP Drubbing In 2010

Yesterday we remarked how a Debbie Wasserman Schultz led cabal of conservative Democrats is already bad mouthing the prospects of the DCCC working to ... -- who can claim a lot of credit for helping elect quite a few Democrats ("more" if not the "better ... and equally unscrupulous House counterpart, Rahm Emanuel, claims a lot more credit for Democratic [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 13:30:00

DrumBeat: October 26, 2008

David Strahan: You're wrong, PM. We need higher oil prices Once again Gordon Brown has got energy policy all wrong. Even before Opec announced an output cut of 1.5 million barrels per day, the Prime Minister had denounced the move as "absolutely scandalous", fearing it would force the oil price higher just as the world slides into recession [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 13:21:00

When the Lights Go Out in the City

Hawaii Island of Oahu Loses Power During Storm By David Briscoe, Associated Press Writer / USA TodayHONOLULU — The island of Oahu lost power Friday evening in the midst of heavy rain and lightning, leaving some 800,000 residents and thousands of tourists in the dark, as well as the neighborhood where President-elect Barack Obama was vacationing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 15:49:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/24/2008

The big news of the evening is that the Holy Land Foundation was convicted of 108 counts related to the funneling of money to Hamas ... and Parliament Besieged: Iceland Boiling Mad at Credit CrunchBrussels Plans Changes to Fight Tax ... From Germany on Kosovo Spy Report Mediterranean UnionEnergy: Algeria; Work Complete on Underwater [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 04:45:00

He Gets Credit For Candor

He Gets Credit For Candor Jennifer Rubin - 12.18.2008 - 2:56 PM Pro-business groups and conservatives aren’t the only ones, we learn from this report, who see a problem for “card check” legislation in Blago-gate: Gerald ... when the FBI linked a competing union to Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich’s effort to sell Illinois’ U.S. Senate [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 19:56:56

Lewis leading Ravens by example

ATM Boss Lies Pool Fantasy Oxygen Julio Cal Search Royals E(mail) Lyric BALTIMORE – As power trios go, it was the sports world’s answer to Nirvana, Cream or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Huddled together in a downtown club last Sunday night, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 14:27:29

Best Blog Posts of 2008 (Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves)

Last year my compilation of what bloggers chose as their own best posts of the year proved so popular, at least with the participating bloggers' mothers, that I have decided to make it an annual affair. But enjoy it while you can. When the Obama Administration institutes its secret plan to extend the Fairness Doctrine to the Internet, this blog, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 21:00:00

Big Cousin

It’s bad enough when your government feels the need to spy on every move you make ... knowing what we think or do in private, especially politically. We are not free to choose our leaders and our laws unless we’re free to think and act. The very conflation of concentrated power [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 20:09:25

Hannity was not alone in smearing, misinforming on Fox News in 2008

Hannity was not alone in smearing, misinforming on Fox News in 2008 While Fox News’ Sean Hannity earned Media Matters for America’s “Misinformer ... Report, host Brit Hume pointed to a statement on Obama’s website that Obama “has never been a Muslim ... that his only “error” was in repeating a flawed report in the Post, without acknowledging [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 21:09:31

The Week’s Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories (December 19, 2008)

Best Buy Gives Affiliates a Slap in the Face Best Buy announced via email that affiliate commissions for two of its best selling ... is Surging in Q4 ComScore’s new report showed strong traffic surges for discount shopping sites in November, particularly on Black Friday. Free $25 Credit To Start Facebook Advertising Facebook [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 13:10:44

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