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Topic: The Dot Matrix, Reloaded |
The Dot Matrix, Reloaded
National Review Online, by Daniel Foster
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Posted By:Ruhn, 1/25/2013 8:07:38 AM
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| Cody Wilson cheerfully describes himself as a crypto-anarchist. “Crypto” modifies “anarchist” in the sense not that it obscures it but that it points to a means: cryptology, code, communication, and technology as the last, best hope for a radical freedom. You meet a few anarchists, crypto and otherwise, hanging around on the fjords and isthmuses of the conservative continent, and like most of them, Cody is young, quick, bright, and vaguely terrifying. (snip) The main thing Cody has planned is: Cody’s building a gun. Not just building, but fabricating. Not just fabricating, but digitally fabricating. The design is crowd-sourced.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 1/25/2013 9:40:10 AM (No. 9138386)
Those who fear the ´Grabbers´ might do well to look into 3D printer/assemblers.
The book burners and memory holers are on the march.
It´s apparently OK to trash every one of your sacred liberties if we save just one (theoretical) child.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
privateer, 1/25/2013 10:10:15 AM (No. 9138466)
Article´s sub-heading: "How do you ban assault weapons when you can print them?" The question answers itself: you ban 3D printers. When 3D printers are outlawed, only the government will have 3D printers.
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George W. Bush Is Smarter Than You
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Real Clear Politics, by Keith Hennessey
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Posted By: Ruhn- 4/25/2013 11:48:32 AM
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The new George W. Bush Presidential Center is being dedicated this week. This seems like a good time to bust a longstanding myth about our former President, my former boss. I teach a class at Stanford Business School titled “Financial Crises in the U.S. and Europe.” During one class session while explaining the events of September 2008, I kept referring to the efforts of the threesome of Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Tim Geithner, who were joined at the hip in dealing with firm-specific problems as they arose.
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When Hope Tramples Truth
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New York Times, by Roger Scruton
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Posted By: Ruhn- 3/27/2013 11:08:40 AM
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Apollo granted to his Trojan priestess Cassandra the gift of prophecy. But because she resisted his advances he punished her by ensuring that nobody would ever believe what she said. Such has been the fate of pessimists down the ages. Those who interrupt the good cheer of their fellows with the thought that the things about which they are all agreed might go badly wrong are either dismissed as madmen or condemned as fools.
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Obama is AWOL on the Budget, Again
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Powerline, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Ruhn- 3/9/2013 4:12:18 PM
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Civil War officers used to say that you can’t lead from the rear. Thousands of them gave their lives, leading their men the only way they knew how. No one asks Barack Obama to give up more than an occasional game of golf, but he still can’t bring himself to lead. In one of his administration’s many low moments, a White House aide explained Obama’s style as “leading from behind,” as though he were proud of it. The budget is a typical case in point. After four long years, Senate Democrats have finally been shamed into obeying the law and producing a budget. Patty Murray, the new chairman
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Newt Gingrich:
What Is To Be Done?
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Powerline, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Ruhn- 3/1/2013 1:09:58 PM
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Newt Gingrich met yesterday with some Republican Congressional staffers and gave them the memo below, which I obtained from a Congressional aide. It lays out Newt’s assessment of where the Democratic and Republican parties stand today. Much of it will seem familiar to readers of this site, but Newt sets forth the facts–many of them grim–with his customary panache. This is obviously a big topic, and I have just a few comments on Newt’s memo which I will save until the end. Here it is: (snip) Key principle: Someone playing chess will always beat someone playing tic tac toe.
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Why Bob Woodward´s Fight With
The White House Matters to You
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National Journal, by Ron Fournier
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Posted By: Ruhn- 2/28/2013 2:15:18 PM
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The fight between the White House and journalistic legend Bob Woodward is a silly distraction to a major problem: The failure of President Obama and House Republicans to lead the country under a budget deadline. Woodward-gate is a distraction the White House welcomed, even encouraged, as part of a public-relations strategy to emasculate the GOP and anybody else who challenges Obama. It is a distraction that briefly enveloped my reporting last weekend, when I essentially broke ties with a senior White House official.
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DOJ Seeks Deportation of Family
Persecuted in Germany for
Homeschooling
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Powerline, by Paul Mirengoff
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Posted By: Ruhn- 2/27/2013 1:13:28 PM
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From William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection, we learn about the case of Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their children: The Romeikes are devout Christians from Germany who wanted to homeschool their children because of what they perceived as the secularist agenda in German public schools. In the United States, the right to homeschool ones’ own children is accepted, although frequently mocked by the left. The homeschoool movement is thriving in the United States, but in Germany it is illegal, a holdover from Nazi-era law.
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Signs of Intelligent Life
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Powerline, by Paul Mirengoff
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I have it on excellent authority that, with the sequester looming, House Republicans will pass a bill to provide the various federal departments and agencies with the power to prioritize where cuts go in each organization. The total amount of cuts within a department or agency would be the same, but the cuts could be made on a more rational basis. (snip) It has two virtues. From a policy standpoint, it will improve the sequester (if that’s what we end up with) by making it less of a blunt instrument. From a political standpoint, it improves the Republicans position.
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New State Department scandal:
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New York Post, by KATE BRIQUELET
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Posted By: FlyRight- 6/16/2013 10:53:38 AM
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In the latest black eye for the scandal-ridden State Department, a whistleblower claims she was run out of the foreign service after complaining about a consul general’s alleged office trysts with subordinates and hookers.Kerry Howard says she was bullied, harassed and forced to resign after she exposed US Consul General Donald Moore’s alleged security-threatening shenanigans in the Naples, Italy, office. As the post’s community-liaison officer, Howard was charged with keeping workplace peace and advising higher-ups on the state of morale, but when she revealed allegations about her boss, State Department officials swept it under the rug,
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Who is he? Obama keeps allies,
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The Hill, by Justin Sink
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Posted By: ketchuplover- 6/17/2013 6:31:12 AM
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Five months into his second term, allies and enemies are as confounded as ever about who President Obama really is. Is he the dyed-in-the-wool liberal that his biggest supporters and critics suggest? Or is he a pragmatic, even cynical, politician who cares more for his popularity than taking risks for his ideological goals or living up to his rhetoric? Even in the short period since his reelection, Obama has provided evidence to support conflicting interpretations. His efforts to pass immigration reform, the unsuccessful push for stricter gun controls and tax hikes on high earners buttress the case for Obama-as-ideologue.
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Jeb Bush labels conservative
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Washington Post, by Aaron Blake
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/17/2013 1:22:30 PM
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Jeb Bush says he’s not worried that his work toward comprehensive immigration reform and his ties to the GOP establishment will alienate conservatives and negatively impact a potential 2016 presidential campaign, referring to critics as “the chirpers.” “If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record,” the former Florida governor said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody. “And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.” Bush (R) pointed to his conservative
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Barbara Walters Defends Maher
Calling Trig Palin Retarded:
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it to be Mean-Spirited’
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Newsbusters, by John Nolte
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/17/2013 5:19:02 PM
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As NewsBusters reported last week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called out vulgarian comedian Bill Maher for referring to her Down Syndrome son Trig as "retarded." On ABC´s The View Monday, co-host Barbara Walters astonishingly defended Maher saying, "I don´t think he intended it to be mean-spirited" (video follows with transcript and commentary): WHOOPI GOLDBERG: At a recent standup show in Las Vegas, comedian Bill Maher apparently called Sarah Palin’s five-year-old developmentally-challenged son Trig retarded. And Sarah blasted him on Twitter as a bully. Is that, is it, is he a bully? Is he a bad, what is he?
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Melendez warns without
legal status ´there will
never be road to
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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 6/16/2013 2:41:41 PM
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Gang of Eight member Bob Menendez advised Republicans to accept legalization status for current illegal immigrants if they ever want to see another president from their party. “I would tell my Republican colleagues — both in the House and the Senate — that the road to the White House comes through a road with a pathway to legalization,” the New Jersey senator said on State of the Union this morning. “Without it, there’ll never be a road to the White House for the Republican party.” Menendez also warned of triggers on border security
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Rubio Aide: ‘There Are American
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National Review Online, by Rich Lowry
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Posted By: trapper- 6/16/2013 11:18:45 PM
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Politico’s Playbook has an excerpt from a new Ryan Lizza piece from the New Yorker that is not yet online. It contains a passage on the back-and-forth between labor and the Chamber that has a quote from a Rubio staffer that is going to raise eyebrows, to say the least: “There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly.” Here is the entire context:
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Threats made to figures at center
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Reuters, by Patrick Temple-West and Karl Plume
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Posted By: FlyRight- 6/16/2013 6:48:57 AM
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A current and a former top tax official have been physically threatened in recent weeks as the scandal over Internal Revenue Service targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups has gathered steam, people familiar with their situation say.Ousted IRS acting commissioner, Steven Miller, has received such threats, according to a source familiar with his situation. The source declined to elaborate on the nature or the source of the threats.
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