Examiner.com Buys NowPublic for Reported $25 Million

David Kaplan at Paidcontent.org is reporting that NowPublic has been sold for a cool $25 million: "You’re reading it here first: After several months of trying to get the deal done, Citizen-J site NowPublic is...

Liberty, Technology and the Next U.S. President

One of the biggest mistakes a new administration might make in its first 100 days would be to ignore the impact technology has had on the privacy of our communications and the striking need to update the law accordingly. If the President fails to act early in his first term...

Spot News images of fire and rescue response to Old Exec Office Building fire...

Old Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., which houses most of the White House staff, including the office of the Vice President, caught fire today (Dec. 18th).  Fire was contained quickly but rescue...

Budget Burial

It never really occurred to me that you could save a buck on a burial; then again I'm not in the business. Fairfax Mortuary, in Virginia, is.I watched the mortuary being built, a consequence of its location being...

Public Heist... Now

Washington, DC -- The meeting here Tuesday night, held in a sweltering conference room of the Cleveland Park public library, didn't have the star power cast attraction of Ocean's 11 or 12 or for that matter, Ocean's 13, but for the 35 or so folks that showed up and fought off...

Moms Are Still Worth Bank

Oh man, I love these yearly surveys. You know, if Eddie Haskell had this information in hand you can bet he'd have been hitting up the Beaver's mom for a loan instead of just trying to scam a ham sandwich.My wife...

Shoot Your Browser

Imagine Bill Gates launching into a full-on voodoo rhythm rant about how much time is wasted fiddling with his company's software, doing needless but mentally-masturbating tasks... ok, maybe that's too close to...

How to Hack the Media

How would you like to break a national news story while sitting on a beach, drinking a cold one, your toes buried in the sand? That's exactly what I did a month ago, while on a trip to Nicaragua. The story...

You vs. MSM in Va Tech Shooting Coverage

As the terrible story of the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus began to unfold last week, the tens of thousands of moving pieces that make up the main stream media were kicked into high gear. The effort to...

NASA Tragedy: Gunman Kills Self and Hostage

A gunman took two hostages in building 44 at NASA's Johnson Space Center Friday. The gunman shot a male hostage, identified as David Beverley, and hours later killed himself as a Houston SWAT team broke through a...

Mogadishu: Bad Moon Rising

Just when residents of Mogadishu thought their unbearable lives were, well, becoming bearable, new violence has broken out turning the city into a "ghost town." "MOGADISHU, April 20 (Reuters) - Faced with the heaviest fighting in Mogadishu for more than a decade, residents...

Gonzales Faces 'Tongue Lashing' from Congressional Critics

Embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales stepped up to the plate Thursday to face congressional critics and answer questions about his involvement in the firing of eight U.S. district attorneys.  Although he defended his actions, he does admit that mistakes were...

Screen grab of NBC News showing VT Shooter

Screen grab of video put out by MSNBC.com of the release of material sent by VT shooter to NBC News. In the package, from which this image is drawn, was a "multimedia manifesto," according to NBC Nightly News...

Violent Crime on Campus Rare Occurance

With the nation, natch, the world, still listing from the worst mass murder in U.S. history, emotions have risen to the surface and lay exposed, like a raw nerve. People are sad, depressed, confused and...

Violent Crime on Campus Rare Occurance

With the nation, natch, the world, still listing from the worst mass murder in U.S. history, emotions have risen to the surface and lay exposed, like a raw nerve.  People are sad, depressed, confused and underlying all of it, they are pissed off.  And they have no...

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