Myths and Falsehoods Surrounding Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination

This article notes Conservatives and the Republican Party, especially Right Wing elements within the Party, came out in opposition of any potential nominee for the Supreme Court that...

Pelosi says she learned of waterboarding in 2003

" WASHINGTON – Under strong attack from Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA and Bush administration of misleading her about...

Shades of Gordon Gekko, Financier Says "Greed is Good"

Using one of the most famous lines uttered by Michael Douglas' character Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street, a film about corporate greed and corporate raiding on Wall Street, Roy C. Smith...

The Dirty Secret of the Financial Crisis: Our Banking System's Broken

"Henry Paulson's $700 billion plan to save the world is dead or dying, but the bailout was not killed by his arrogance or his grossly misleading claims about what the public's money would buy. The plan collapsed because it didn't work. The Treasury secretary has launched a PR...

Debunking the Google Earth Censorship Myth

I found this interesting enough to share with NP. Nothing more to add yet.""There's a persistent Web meme to the effect that Google obscures sensitive or top-secret locations in Google Maps and Google Earth at the insistence of national governments. A July IT Security article...

Misleading Obama Attack Ad On Stem Cell Research

"ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) today issued the following statement on Barack Obama's misleading new radio ad on stem cell research, which is airing in the Philadelphia suburbs: "The fact is John McCain has been a champion for stem cell research,...

iPhone Ad Banned over "False Claims"

Britain's advertising watchdog has banned a recent iPhone 3G ad over misleading functionality claims."The ad showed the internet navigation prowess of the iPhone, with images zooming in on a weather forecast...

World's richest brothers feud again

They are the world's richest brothers with a combined wealth of $85bn - and they are fighting again. Two years ago, Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani, who control India's Reliance group of industries, accused each...

Global Disruption” More Accurately Describes Climate Change, Not “Global ...

This is a great interview with John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and lawyer Stephen Susman who is representing Kivalina islanders, Native Alaskan people who have to be moved, because of global warming, to the...

House votes to impeach Bush

"An apparently doomed bid to impeach President George W. Bush, largely on charges of misleading the U.S. into the Iraq war, was referred on Wednesday to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.On a...

Clinton Cherry Picking Polls

"Hillary Clinton continues to make her case to the undeclared superdelegates. The problem is, her arguments are misleading at best and dishonest at worst. Claim #1: “I am the better general election...

Germany is 14th state to ratify Lisbon Treaty

The latest opinion poll shows the campaign for the Lisbon Referendum tightening as it heads for the final fortnight. The Red C poll in tomorrow's Sunday Business Post shows the No side narrowing the gap on...

Inconvienent Scams: For the Environmentally Naive

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly Corporate Advertisement Scammers everywhere jumping on the environmental bandwagon to flog everything from Toilet Paper to Air fresheners, really begin to all...

WTF, BT? British ISP Spies on its Customers

"BT has admitted that it secretly used customer data to test Phorm's advertising targeting technology last summer, and that it covered it up when customers and The Register raised questions over the suspicious...

Microsoft Denies Credit to Bug-Hunter with Racy Name - censorship,microsoft,w...

Back to Story - Help Microsoft Denies Credit to Bug-Hunter with Racy Name Robert McMillan, IDG News ServiceSun Feb 17, 10:30 AM...

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