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I guess it really shouldn't come as a big surprise, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation is reporting that the RIAA -- the record companies' lobbying group -- is floating the legal position that making backup copies of CDs you own or ripping the CDs to an Ipod or other MP3 player is not fair use. […]

When last we heard from NBC "news analyst" and "The West Wing" writer Lawrence O'Donnell he was going ape during an appearance on MSNBC with John O'Neill of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame. Today O'Donnell appeared on Hugh Hewitt's radio show to defend his silly article on the Huffington Post that Dick Cheney was […]

San Francisco Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, a Democrat, was on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" last night to talk about his opposition to having the USS Iowa turned into a museum on the San Francisco bayfront. Of course, it didn't take long for Sandoval to show how completely insane he is -- he wants the U.S. […]

I'm a big World War II history buff, both of my grandfathers served -- one in the Army Air Corps, the other in the Marines -- and I must confess that one of the major holes in my pretty extensive reading was the Bataan Death March and the Japanese occupation of the Phillippines. "Ghost Soldiers" […]

Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel apparently didn't like the idea of invalidating California's death penalty -- and possibly that of 36 other states, so he did a little legislating to get the result he was looking for. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that California must change its lethal injection method for the execution of Michael Morales […]

Just about every teacher has said it at one point in time or another: "There's no such thing as a stupid question." It's a lie. There are stupid questions and there are stupid answers, and then there's this gem from the reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times who broke the story. Click here to play […]

Lt. Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, a WWII Marine ace and Medal of Honor awardee, isn't "the sort of person UW (the University of Washington) wanted to produce. The University of Washington's student senate rejected a memorial for alumnus Gregory "Pappy" Boyington of "Black Sheep Squadron" fame amid concerns a military hero who shot down enemy […]

As predicted, it didn't take long for the comics to jump all over Dick Cheney. First we have David Letterman's Top 10 list of the Top Ten Dick Cheney Excuses: 10. "Heart palpitation caused trigger finger to spasm" 9. "Wanted to get the Iraq mess off the front page" 8. "Not enough Jim Beam" 7. […]

I'm hopeful that the Muslims will stop rioting over these rather tame cartoons so that I can stop chastising the media for its failure to print them. It's a rare day when I find myself in agreement with "Fox News Watch's" Neal Gabler, who on Saturday's show called the newspapers and broadcast outlets that refused […]

Over at Slate they have a little explainer on hunting etiquette and it's quickly apparent that the headline writer didn't read the story. First, the headline and subhed: Does Dick Cheney Know How To Hunt? What the veep needs to learn about shooting quail. And now the story: On Saturday, Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally […]