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So, I type Mark Levine into Google search and my first two returns are for: Home | Mark Levine for Delegate www.markfordelegate.com New York City Council Member Mark Levinewww.marklevine.nyc Then The Great One shows up 3rd? The Mark Levin Show www.marklevinshow.com https://www.google.com/search?q=mark+levine&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS834US834&oq=mark+levine&aqs=chrome..69i57j46j0l6.1586j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Those other guys are virtual nobody's in the world or on the Internet and could never generate enough traffic to warrant their positions in a search result. Given The Great One's reach on the Internet his traffic alone should have forced his website to be #1

Election '12: Herman Cain's withdrawal concludes a media hit job that sends out two chilling warnings. To conservative businessmen: Don't dare run for high office. To black candidates: Don't stray off the liberal plantation. There's no denying that Cain, who on Saturday succumbed to weeks of media-driven pressure and suspended his campaign, was an imperfect presidential candidate. Beyond the series of far-from-proven allegations of sexual improprieties, his performance in answering foreign policy questions disappointed even his staunchest supporters. Cain's demise illustrates the hazards of placing faith in an unvetted presidential hopeful who has never held public office. But what if...

"In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion," Jill Abramson told the New York Times yesterday upon being designated the paper's new executive editor. "If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth." This quote prompted blogress Ann Althouse, who is a much nicer person than we are, to contemplation: Let's analyze the analogy. A newspaper is like religion, believed in, and taken, unquestioningly, as true. Then what happens when you are in charge of it?

New technology met ancient weaponry in Palo Alto this week when local park rangers used cell phone images and Wikipedia to identify an unexploded artillery shell discovered Wednesday in Foothills Park. The artillery shell is the latest in a long line of mysterious hazards that have periodically surfaced at Foothills Park since its official opening in 1965, offering another glimpse into its secretive history. Residents were alerted to the most recent episode Wednesday afternoon, when the city sent out a community notice warning that an unexploded World War I artillery shell had been discovered on the 3200 block of Alexis...

Big Breakup: That's the way the comet crumbles Ron Cowen Scores of telescopes are watching a comet fall apart, and the main show may be only beginning. The comet has already fragmented into at least 59 pieces and may continue to break up as it reaches its position closest to the sun on June 6. In mid-May, the chunks will venture within 11.7 million kilometers of Earth—the closest any comet has come to our planet in 20 years—and the largest fragments should be visible with binoculars. Called Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, this body passes near the sun every 5.4 years and...

That's One Weird Tooth And other bulletins on the elusive narwhal Susan Milius What Martin Nweeia noticed first when he encountered narwhals, he says, was the sound. In May 2000, as spring was just reaching Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, a famed local hunter took Nweeia out on the ice searching the open water for those tusk-bearing, high-Arctic whales. "I was sitting on a bucket out on the ice doing polar bear watch," he says. At that time of year, daylight lasts around the clock, and at 3 a.m., the gray sky had orange streaks. "The water was like...

Ban all schools? That's a dangerous thought By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 03/01/2006) The Earth can cope with global warming, schools should be banned and we should learn to love bacteria. These are among the dangerous ideas revealed by a poll of leading thinkers. John Brockman, the New York-based literary agent and publisher of The Edge website posed the question: what is your dangerous idea? in reference to a controversial book by the philosopher Daniel Dennett that argued that Darwinism was a universal acid that ate through virtually all traditional beliefs. Brockman received 116 responses to his challenge from...

PROVO - There is a new coffee shop in town, but it's no Starbucks. The entry is framed with little white Christmas lights, there are half-a-dozen couches to go along with a few tables, and the walls are yellow, red, green and purple. Opposite a faux-brick wall there is a wall dedicated to nonsense. "Girls are like ladders," one customer wrote. Another scribbled: "I love yellow people." It's all the same to owner Christin Johnson. She's just happy the people who jotted down the messages wanted to stick around in her Vermillion Skies De-cafe and Lounge long enough to pen...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

I was just thinking about the Jeremy Glick episode. O'Reilly may be moderate politically, but that doesn't mean unbiased these days. His problem is that he isn't neutral when it comes to the United States. He is pro-American. To the left, that's biased.

No smoking . . . Dr Bolton with his hemp crop. Photo: Jeff Dawson If Keith Bolton has his way, hemp - the great symbol of the hippy North Coast - will be coming to a sewage treatment plant near you very soon. And to your wardrobe, your pantry, your car and your medicine cabinet. Interestingly, the strongest opponents of the Southern Cross University academic's dream are the drug dealers in nearby Nimbin. Man has cultivated hemp for fibre, food and medicine for at least 6000 years and Dr Bolton says that, after a 70-year "blip in history" caused...