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The future of the internet is video blogging. With over 200,000 daily viewers this liberal site and other like it will take us to the cleaners in 2008. Professional actress in a news format, I see through it, but the young will get sucked in. Be sure to watch her 4/11/2006 and 4/12/2006 broadcast. http://www.rocketboom.com

Jason Johnson was finishing his sophmore year at Cumberland College in Kentucky, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. He was stage manager for the school production of "As You Like It" which was supposed to have been put on last week. Then he was called in to see two Cumberland officials on Thursday. They'd seen his MySpace blog and profile. He was handed a letter that requested he be off school property by that evening.

On April 7, when Britney Spears and Kevin Federline realized that their baby, Sean Preston, had been sleeping more than usual, panic bells went off. Just six days earlier, the 7-month-old had taken a major fall from his high chair, a tumble that had his parents worried that he might have been critically injured. They had every right to fret. After rushing Sean to a nearby hospital, they discovered he had a minor skull fracture (sometimes called a "scalp fracture" in babies), and a blood clot. And the doctors weren't the only ones to take notice! The next day, the...

I by no means am a theological scholar. I am just a late twenties Catholic who came to his senses about the Novus Ordo in mid-2005, but I would be remiss if I didn't offer my comments on some things that are percolating in the Church right now. This Maundy Thursday may mark the “granting” of an “Universal Indult” for the Tridentine Mass (also known as the Traditional Latin Mass) by Benedict XVI which would allow a “freer and wider” use of the Tridentine Mass. The collective Traditionalist world is holding it’s breath in anticipation of this granting. My question...

The Hamlet Men "Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all" -- Hamlet IN THE END it was not through the application of money, the calling in of favors, or the deft manipulation of the rules and regulations of the Democratic Party that raised John Kerry to become that Party's candidate for President of the United States. It was because he was, in all senses, the perfect man for the job. Kerry was the single politician who reflected the deep soul of the what the Democratic Party had become; the standard bearer for the resurgent Left, exemplified by Hollywood and...

This morning's Washington Times reports the astonishing--to me, anyway--news that last week's massive pro-illegal immigrant demonstration in Los Angeles was organized by International A.N.S.W.E.R. We've written about International A.N.S.W.E.R. a number of times; for example, here. It is a Communist organization and a front for the Workers World Party. The Workers World Party has been around for quite a while. It is one of the last unapologetically Stalinist organizations in the world; it supported the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. More recently, the WWP and ANSWER have supported dictators like Saddam Hussein and North Korea's Kim Il Jong. These...

By Robert Niles: Two stories this morning about large news organizations plagiarizing independent online media: The first, related by King Kaufman at Salon regards an ESPN radio host ripping off a comedy bit from a sports blogger in Michigan. Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story reports the second and (literally) more serious example. In Huffington Post, she writes that one of her investigative reports found its way into an Associated Press story, which did not attribute the information to her or to Raw Story. Alexandrovna writes: "We contacted an AP senior editor and ombudsmen both and both admitted to having had...

American Illegals Marching On Mexico City David Kessel March 28, 2006 (The Americas Press Agency, March 29, 2006) - Thousands of Americans residents in Mexico marched on Mexico City; and hundreds more marched on other Latin American capitals to protest what they perceive to be the unfair treatment they have been receiving in those countries.“We cannot work here”, complained John Smith, a resident of Tijuana. “They tell me: “Mexico is supposed to be for Mexicans.” “I have applied for many jobs here, at restaurants, and also at factories. I have run out of my savings and explained to them...

TechWeb.com (03/24/2006 3:04 PM EST) Microsoft employees writing to an anonymous blog are calling for the heads of high-level company executives -- including Steve Ballmer and Jim Allchin -- after the double delay debacle this week when the Redmond, Wash. developer shoved its two most profitable products into 2007. On the Mini-Microsoft blog, which is maintained by someone who identifies himself as a Microsoft employee and goes by the nickname "Who da'Punk," an entry tagged "Vista 2007. Fire the leadership now!" has accumulated over 325 comments from in- and outsiders. The blog was a response to the Tuesday announcement that...

The Federal Election Commission last night released proposed new rules that leave almost all Internet political activity unregulated except for the purchase of campaign ads on Web sites. "My key goal in this rule-making has been to make sure that the commission establish clear rules to exempt individuals who engage in online politics from campaign finance laws," said Chairman Michael E. Toner, a Republican. "We tried to craft a regulation that would allow the maximum amount of freedom for people as possible," said Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub, a Democrat. Most bloggers, individual Web users, and such Web sites as Drudge...

Virus Alert! McCain-Feingold is set to infect the Internet. By Bradley A. Smith For two years, campaign-finance reformers fought in the courts to force the Federal Election Commission to regulate the Internet more heavily. They won, and legislation is in the works. Two bills are before Congress, H.R. 4900 and H.R. 1606. The “reform community” is strongly backing the former, and, to garner support for it, is claiming that it offers more than adequate protections. It doesn’t. Before McCain-Feingold, or “BCRA,” federal campaign law regulated “expenditures” and “contributions” made “in connection with” federal elections or “for the purpose of influencing”...

OJR's Q & A with Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder of the successful political blog, which is home to a large, active corps of readers and posters. Markos Moulitsas Zúniga is the founder of DailyKos, rated by Technorati as the most-linked-to political blog on the Web. With MyDD.com founder Jerome Armstrong, he is the co-author of "Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics," a sharp rebuke of politics-as-usual within the Democratic party. He spoke via phone with OJR about the book, his website and independent Web publishing. An edited transcript of that interview follows. OJR: What the...

A reader e-mails Andrew Sullivan: "I believe that if you compare the conduct of the Iraq war by the Bush administration with the record of Lincoln during the Civil War and Roosevelt during World War 2, the record will show that Bush is doing a better job than either Lincoln or Roosevelt. Check out 'Battle Cry of Freedom' by James McPherson, a history of the Civil War era. Lincoln faced continuous vilification by the Democrats and did not think until late in the campaign that he would win re-election. The Union military during the Civil War lost dozens of major...

Mar. 20, 2006 Hi, Actually, it is not so much pessimism but rather realism that pushed me to write that last post. I think most people here, including the political elites realize that a civil war is something unthinkable that will tear the country apart. However, like in Yugoslavia, the sect or ethnic group that really caused the partitioning and break up of the country was non-other but that which most wanted to keep it one, namely the Serbs. By their brutality, cruelty and ethnic genocide, they destroyed any basis for coexistence between the various ethnic constituents of the old...

Oscar-winner George Clooney may make politically provocative films like "Syriana." But he doesn't write politically provocative blogs. So imagine his ire when Arianna Huffington used some of his recent answers to political questions in a way that makes it look as if he wrote one for her Huffington Post blog site.

Terri's Day challenges the nation to unify Kevin Fobbs March 13, 2006 Terri's Day — A Celebration of the Culture of Life honoring Terri Schiavo with a day of remembrance challenges each and every one of us to stop for a moment and ask ourselves a question, do we respect ourselves, our families, our lives? And if we are faced with the question of the possible certainty of death, does anyone truly know, or even have the faintest clue about, our wishes? That is the greatest good, the greatest legacy that Terri Schiavo's death and an annual "Terri's Day" can...

A top city leader admits the FBI has been looking through records and asking lots of questions. City Finance and Housing Director, Robert Lipscomb, confirmed that the FBI is looking into the HARP program. The program helps low income families repair or replace their homes. Lipscomb says the FBI's investigation also involves a conflict of interest. This past summer, Eyewitness News did its own investigation into a possible conflict of interest at the HARP program. Reporter Jeni DiPrizio had some questions about Councilman Rickey Peete's grandmother getting a new house on your dime. Peete’s grandmother, Lizzie Jones, was one...

For up-to-date info visit Michael J Totten's website: http://www.michaeltotten.com Other related posts: Michael J. Totten: Kurdistan. Iraq Without a Gun; Dream City of the Kurds; Massive Reconstruction Southern Kurdistan, The Most pro-American Place In The World Read these articles belowLockdown, February 17, 2006 http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001058.htmlNorthern Iraq: A Photo Gallery, February 18, 2006  http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001059.html“Our Jerusalem”, February 20, 2006 http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001060.htmlThe Safest City in Iraq, February 21, 2006 http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001061.htmlThe Utah of the Middle East, February 22, 2006 The Kurd Way. Lockdown, February 17, 2006 http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001058.html ERBIL, IRAQ – A Western journalist I met in Erbil, who has been in Iraq for some time, told...

"I am so tired of Muslims of blaming 'culture' not the 'religion' for any trouble inside Muslim countries. If you need an example of the falsehood of that statement - look at India and Pakistan. The people are ethnically identical, speak the same languages and eat the same foods. (In fact they were the same country until Muslims demanded they get their own country). Today Pakistan is a military dictatorship and has been for most of its 50 plus year life. Its only claims to fame are killing journalists, operating jihadi camps, beating up women who try to run marathons,...