Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Fresh and insightful opinion from Tapscott's Copy Desk, by the Washington Examiner's Editorial Page Editor Mark Tapscott

WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL HIGHLIGHTS

Playing with fire in New Black Panther case

Examiner Editorial
"This case must be made right as quickly as possible and with no room for further doubts about the integrity of Justice Department voter intimidation prosecutions."

America is fine, even with Obama's failure

Noemie Emery, Examiner Columnist
"The system is working. Obama is failing. The country is fine."

FCIC mum about staff's conflicts of interest

J.P. Freire, Examiner Editorial Page Associate Editor
"An Examiner inquiry found multiple FCIC employees who either are or appear to be former employees of many of the very Wall Street firms at the heart of the collapse, including Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns and JP Morgan."

Is 99 weeks too long for unemployment benefits?

David Freddoso, Examiner Columnist
"If unemployment benefits last 99 weeks, and they are even mildly attractive next to a $10-per-hour job, then no rational actor would pick lettuce for less."

On the Recovery Prevention Act of 2010

Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Moment Columnist
"Ordinary Americans, though, understand that they can't go on as before. Since 2008, they've started paying their debt back."

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Washington Post: Army intelligence analyst charged in Wikileaks case

Army intelligence analyst charged in Wikileaks case

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/06/AR2010070602330.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

By Leila Fadel

Washington Post Foreign Service

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

BAGHDAD -- The military said Tuesday that it has charged an Army intelligence analyst in connection with the leak of a controversial video and the downloading and transfer of classified State Department cables, in a case that is likely to further deter would-be whistleblowers.

The case against Pfc. Bradley Manning, 22, reflects the tough stance the Obama administration appears to be taking against the disclosure of classified information http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/06/AR2010070602330.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

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Washington Post: Technology Daily Report Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Technology: Army intelligence analyst is charged in Wikileaks case

Technology Daily Report Wednesday, July 7, 2010

In the News

Army intelligence analyst is charged in Wikileaks case: U.S. TAKING TOUGH LINE ON LEAKS
Case involves video of deadly 2007 strike in Iraq (By Leila Fadel)

EU looking carefully at Google allegations

Alleged Army whistleblower felt angry and alone (By DAVID DISHNEAU)

Lawsuit seeks arbitration in Microsoft case (By MICHAEL J. CRUMB)

Launch delayed for satellite to watch space debris

The hard truth: How human touch influences our emotions (By Kathleen Parker)

Pew study: Internet is redefining our relationships, reputations(By Cecilia Kang)

W00t! sends Associated Press a bill for quoting its blog

Wonderfully played:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/06/w00t-sends-associate.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag+(Boing+Boing)

W00t! sends Associated Press a bill for quoting its blog

Cory Doctorow at 10:54 PM Tuesday, Jul 6, 2010

When W00t! posted its delightful notice about being acquired by Amazon, it was picked up and re-run by blogs all over the net. Not wanting to miss out on the action, the Associated Press ran the story and the text, too.

One problem: the AP has previously told bloggers that quotations -- however brief -- should be licensed before publication. They even offer these licenses. For a small fee, AP will generously allow you to quote one of its articles on your blog (provided that you don't do so in a way that criticizes the AP, of course, and they reserve the right to take the quote back at any time).

So W00t! sent the AP a bill for $17.50 for the quotation: Oh, and find the bill here:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/06/w00t-sends-associate.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag+(Boing+Boing)

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Carroll County celebrates the Fourth

Carroll County celebrates the Fourth

Monday, 05 July 2010

By Kevin Dayhoff

All photos by Kevin Dayhoff - Carroll County celebrates the Fourth by Kevin Dayhoff July 4, 2010

Carroll County celebrated the Fourth of July at the Carroll County Farm Museum.

As the temperatures soared in the 90s, the celebrations began at 12 noon at the Farm Museum, 500 S. Center St., Westminster, with music that included the U.S. Navy Band “Country Current,” Carroll Jazz Singers, Carroll County Cloggers, the Elderly Brothers Quartet; a mule-pulled wagon tour of the grounds, crafts, and food.

Later in the evening at 9:30 p.m, the skies over the Farm Museum pond lit-up to everyone’s delight as fireworks soared in to the night sky to celebrate the Fourth in a grand style.

Thousands jammed into the Farm Museum and the adjacent Agriculture Center grounds to view the show.

Labels: Ag Carroll Co MD Ag Center, Annual July 4th, Dayhoff photos, Dayhoff writing essays

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/07/carroll-county-celebrates-fourth.html

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The Wisdom of “Silent Cal”

July 7, 2010 The Wisdom of “Silent Cal”

Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3849

(1923 photo of "Silent Cal" Calvin Coolidge by John Garo)

The Fourth of July has come and gone. The fireworks exclaimed its last hurrah along with the Ooos and Ahhhs. The remains of the day include a few partially eaten hot dogs, a half-bag of potato chips, and the sticky, syrupy goo that we can call Maryland’s heat and humidity that clung to your skin and followed you home.

The flag that flew proudly on the rickety pole attached to the front of the house like a patriotic necktie has been retired for the day.

For those who enjoy historical trivia, there may have been a mention that two of the framers of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, and his colleague in history, John Adams, both died on July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing the famous document we celebrate every year.

In my household, there are two celebrations that take place every 4th of July. There is a celebration of the excitement that we live in, what remains a somewhat, a free country. We have a moment of reflection for those who have gone before us so that we may continue to fight for our freedoms and, of course, a celebration of “Silent Cal Day.”

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Now I can only be sure that you share my excitement at this point in time, and you feel a profound increase in your dopamine levels. Please understand that this is a normal reaction known as the “Coolidge Effect.”

However, before you feel a subsequent effect on your limbic system, get a grip on yourself and read on about this great man.Here: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3849

Labels: Dayhoff Media The Tentacle, Dayhoff writing essays presidents, Pres 1923 1929 Coolidge Calvin

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/07/wisdom-of-silent-cal.html

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Gregory Kane laments that he is going to miss Justice John Paul Stevens

Gregory Kane says: It's going to be hard to miss Justice Stevens and gives insight into the "the "penumbra" (interpretation) of the Constitution..."

By: GREGORY KANE Examiner Staff Writer July 1, 2010

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/It_s-going-to-be-hard-to-miss-Justice-Stevens-97484449.html

"At least five Supreme Court justices understand what the Second Amendment says. The remaining four need a lesson in the meaning of liberty.Earlier this week the high court ruled that handgun bans like the one in Chicago are unconstitutional. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said that the right to bear arms "applies equally to the federal government and the states.""

"Writing for the minority, Justice John Paul Stevens offered this whimper: "(this decision) could prove far more destructive -- quite literally -- to our nation's communities and to our constitutional structure."

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"Those rights -- like, say, for instance, the right to own a handgun to defend your home and person -- Stevens would just as well see remain rooted so deeply in the "penumbra" of the Constitution that they will be all but forgotten. This penumbra business got started in 1964."

Examiner Columnist Gregory Kane: "But I do know what to say to the departing...":

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/It_s-going-to-be-hard-to-miss-Justice-Stevens-97484449.html

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Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Things are quiet around the county Board of Elections office in Catonsville

Now serving…Well, no one
Explore Baltimore County
By Bryan P. Sears Tuesday night is the last night to file. Candidates have until 9, but interest, unlike past years, is not exactly at a fever pitch. ...

Things are quiet around the county Board of Elections office in Catonsville.

Tuesday night is the last night to file. Candidates have until 9, but interest, unlike past years, is not exactly at a fever pitch. http://www.explorebaltimorecounty.com/blog/politics/616/now-servingwell-no-one/

Explore Baltimore County

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ObamaCare – Call us when you are shovel ready

ObamaCare – Call us when you are shovel ready.

Retrieved July 6, 2010

[20100706 ObamaCare Shovel Ready]

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Washington Post Most Viewed Opinions Columns

Most Viewed Opinions Columns

1) Losing more than jobs

Why can't our leaders focus on the greatest economic dislocation in eight decades?

2) Obama's worst foreign mistake

The new START treaty must not be ratified.

3) Politics goes primitive

Sen. Bennet isn't a jerk. He just plays one on TV.

4) Democracy in trouble

The whole concept of promoting it is endangered.

5) Obama's CEO problem

The president needs to outline an agenda that is compelling to the business community.

6) Tea Party time across the pond

This past weekend Americans celebrated a revolution that began with a tea party in Boston Harbor -- and today's Tea Party movement takes its inspiration from those early protests against the economic despotism of George III . So it is ironic that the first Tea Party government seems to have been...

7) Nevada's undaunted 'nobody'

LAS VEGAS Sometimes provocative people become that way because they were provoked. Sharron Angle, 60, could be enjoying the 10 grandchildren she loves even more than her .44 magnum. Instead, she is the Republican nominee against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's quest for a fifth term as senator....

8) Terror -- and candor

The administration's refusal to identify terrorists reflects a dangerous cowardice.

9) Rabbi vs. atheist: Debating God with Christopher Hitchens

Ambling across the lobby with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, my antagonist nodded to me and said, "Hello, darling."

10) Michelle Rhee's role

EVEN AS D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee suggested she might not be able to continue her work if Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) is voted out of office, she insisted the race is not about her. The key, she said, is "the two gentlemen who are running and what their kind of stances are about...

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No, Rolling Stone - YOU SUCK

No, Rolling Stone - YOU SUCK

Methinks Rolling Stone protests too much...

Matt Taibbi writes: "Here's CBS's chief foreign correspondent saying out loud on TV that when the man running a war that's killing thousands of young men and women every year steps on his own dick in front of a journalist, that journalist is supposed to eat the story so as not to embarrass the flag."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/122137/83512

Lara Logan, You Suck

June 28, 2010 By Matt Taibbi

Lara Logan, come on down! You're the next guest on Hysterical Backstabbing Jealous Hackfest 2010!

I thought I'd seen everything when I read David Brooks saying out loud in a New York Times column that reporters should sit on damaging comments to save their sources from their own idiocy. But now we get CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan slamming our own Michael Hastingson CNN's "Reliable Sources" program, agreeing that the Rolling Stone reporter violated an "unspoken agreement" that journalists are not supposed to "embarrass [the troops] by reporting insults and banter."

Anyone who wants to know why network television news hasn't mattered since the seventies just needs to check out this appearance by Logan. Here's CBS's chief foreign correspondent saying out loud on TV that when the man running a war that's killing thousands of young men and women every year steps on his own dick in front of a journalist, that journalist is supposed to eat the story so as not to embarrass the flag. And the part that really gets me is Logan bitching about how Hastings was dishonest to use human warmth and charm to build up enough of a rapport with his sources that they felt comfortable running their mouths off in front of him. According to Logan, that's sneaky — and journalists aren't supposed to be sneaky:

"What I find is the most telling thing about what Michael Hastings said in your interview is that he talked about his manner as pretending to build an illusion of trust and, you know, he's laid out there what his game is… That is exactly the kind of damaging type of attitude that makes it difficult for reporters who are genuine about what they do, who don't — I don't go around in my personal life pretending to be one thing and then being something else. I mean, I find it egregious that anyone would do that in their professional life."

To gain more insight into the left's thinking when they recently smeared the American military and why the job of beat reporters was made even more impossible by a hot dog looking for 15 minutes of fame at our expense: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/122137/83512

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Monday, July 05, 2010

Right Turn Cameras

From: mdconvention.org

http://mdconcon.wordpress.com/

Right Turn Cameras??

Posted on May 7, 2010 by md2010admin1

From the latest email that I get from PhantomALERT:

A single red light camera in Riverside, California issued $1 million worth of right-hand turn on red tickets in just one month.

The automated ticketing machine installed in March at Tyler Street at the entrance to the 91 Freeway has become the most productive of the city’s cameras and now accounts for half of the citations issued by Riverside’s vendor, Redflex Traffic Systems of Australia. The camera helped boost the grand total of citations mailed since January 2007 to 82,448 tickets worth $32,532,203. As in most California cities, Riverside’s program began with tickets issued to drivers primarily at locations where the yellow light provided insufficient warning. A 2001 report by the California State Auditor found that 77 percent of tickets in major cities were issued for split-second violations. This means that motorists who harmlessly entered the intersection a fraction of a second after the light turned red were photographed and sent a ticket. In fact, the trigger is so quick in Riverside that city documents recorded four instances early this year in which the camera generated a citation when one traffic signal facing the driver displayed a red light while a secondary signal still displayed the yellow light.

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Boehner Video Hits Obama on Jobs, Oil Spin

Boehner Video Hits Obama on Jobs, Oil Spin
GOP House Minority Leader John Boehner is striking back at President Barack Obama with a video that questions the president's leadership on key national issues. The YouTube video, titled “What About the Country, Mr. President?” is in response to Obama's speech in which he ripped into Boehner for telling a newspaper that a major banking overhaul bill is like "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon."
Read the Full Story -- See the Video

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