According to a breaking report from the UK Guardian, Barack Obama’s National Security Agency has been collecting phone records of millions of domestic customers of Verizon under a court order obtained in April. The order requires Verizon to turn over
Progressive Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank joined the chorus of journalistic outrage over the Obama Administration’s decision to spy on Fox News reporter James Rosen and to seize and comb Associated Press reporters’ phone records, writing that “the administration’s actions shatter
Google and Verizon Wireless reportedly gave government officials reporters’ private email and phone records as part of the Department of Justice’s seizure of journalists’ communications. According to the New York Times, two reporters’ personal cellphone records “were provided to the
Newly released Federal Election Commission (FEC) figures reveal that $18 million of the $43 million President Barack Obama raised for his second inauguration came from corporations, unions, and interest groups. In 2009, Obama banned corporate donations to his first inauguration. After reversing his position
Now that the weather is warming, there’s golf in the air! And for the second weekend in a row, Barack Obama took time out from his rigorous, backbreaking schedule to go golfing at Joint Base Andrews. Last weekend, the foursome
Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III crossed paths at the Verizon Center as Syracuse and Marquette fought for the first spot in the Final Four on Saturday. The president, whom Breitbart Sports reported was the recipient of more than a fair
(AFP) In a challenge to instant video leader Netflix, telecom giant Verizon and rental group Redbox have launched a streaming video service for US customers. The service was open to the public Friday after several weeks in testing. “Redbox Instant
=================================================== Crimes, Hoaxes and Bad Behavior on Social Media. =================================================== Dumb criminals are dumb. 7 Dumb Criminals Show Off Their Crimes on Social Media When you’re pondering doing dumb things, even the cloud is not safe. Verizon turns in
I know it’s risky to take the other side of an issue from Defender of Liberty Ben Shapiro lest I end up like Piers Morgan. However, on the issue of Netflix, I am fairly confident in my contrarian analysis as I
Tech companies spend trillions of dollars to build and maintain, expand and improve their Internet networks. Broadband industry has invested nearly $1.2 trillion dollars since 1996 So it is more than a mite disturbing when a democrat former Federal Communications
Google, along with other tech industry supporters of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations mandating net neutrality, is urging a federal court to side with the FCC in a suit brought by Internet service providers Verizon and MetroPCS. That suit, brought
Mitt Romney closed his campaign in the state where it began — New Hampshire — in front of a raucous, energetic, and enthusiastic crowd of over 10,000 at the Verizon Center. Thousands more people were outside of the arena, unable
(AP) Prices, details on the iPad Mini, 4th-gen iPadBy The Associated PressApple refreshed its iPad lineup on Tuesday. Here are details on prices and availability of the new iPad mini and updated full-sized iPad. MODELS AND PRICES: There are six
“Occupy Unmasked” is now available to watch instantly, both on cable and satellite video on demand services as well as computers and mobile devices. Audiences everywhere now have a chance to see Andrew Breitbart’s last major project after it played
Everything the government does to regulate the Internet is illegal. The last time Congress addressed Tech policy they intentionally left the ‘Net completely alone. They authorized no one to regulate the Web in any way. So of course the Obama Administration
Bad policy after bad policy. Often illegally imposed. As a result, the Tech Sector – 1/6 of our nation’s economy, as big as health care – is hemorrhaging jobs. Tech Layoffs Hit 3-year High in First Half of 2012 And
Today, Paul Ryan — and his wife Janna — released two years (2010 and 2011) of tax returns on Friday. In 2011, the Ryans paid an effective tax rate of 20%. In 2010, the Ryans paid an effective tax rate
The news industry takes another hit this week as the Rupert Murdoch-owned digital newspaper, The Daily, announces that 29 percent of its workforce, 50 employees, will be laid off. News Corp launched the iPad-only publication (via iTunes) to great fanfare
Always eager to leap before an unattended camera, President Obama took advantage of a trip to the Verizon Center for a USA-Brazil pre-Olympic basketball game to give ESPN his opinion on the 1992 vs. 2012 Dream Team. “This is a
We’ve seen a lot of people and companies benefit illegally and/or unfairly from the policies of the Barack Obama Administration. The Obama Administration routinely picks losers at the expense of winners — the common thread amongst the losers being their
Network Neutrality is disastrous Internet policy, cooked up in the fevered swamps of university faculty lounges and Media Marxist grievance group offices. Every encounter with Reality has been for Net Neutrality and its proponents an abysmal failure. Net Neutrality is Socialism for
Many of the super-rich moguls of New York City own guns, according to the NYPD, and some people are enraged about it. Eugene O’Donnell, a John Jay professor and former cop, charged, “By definition, these are the least needy people
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is convening a hearing on the pending Verizon purchase of broadcast spectrum from a cable company consortium. The Committee has called but six witnesses for the hearing. And two of them are radical Leftists – Joel Kelsey and Tim Wu.
Mike Daisey lied about work conditions in contract manufacturing factories in China where iPhones and iPads are made. He lied on stage in a theatrical monologue (that itself was a bald rip-off of the medium invented by the late, great
We can almost always count on the Left’s knee-jerk, snap objection to almost anything that takes place in the free market. Almost anytime any two or more private individuals or the companies they represent reach a mutually acceptable agreement –
HBO’s “Game Change,” a telefilm alleging Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was over matched, under-qualified and possible mentally unstable, makes its world TV premiere March 10. The following night offers an elixir to that poorly sourced production. [youtube WVo_-RAiX3M nolink] “The
Another day, another Barack Obama Administration totalitarian diktat. In other words, whatever Obama wants – by any means necessary. Behold Obama’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Which last week handed down from on-high a mandate that telecommunications companies AT&T, Verizon
The Obama Administration has been an anti-Constitutional, anti-rule of law, unilateral power grabbing nightmare mess. Wonder why the economy remains a train wreck? This is why. If the American people and their businesses are overrun with new government taxes and
The Soros and SEIU-funded Media Matters is smarting over three losses these past two weeks. First there was the Simon Wiesenthal Center slamming Media Matters for America for its anti-Israel screeds, the second was Politico calling the propaganda site a
JENNIFER ANISTON NAMED SEXIEST WOMAN OF ALL TIME Nothing against Aniston, who gets better looking every year, but… ever? Here are the Top 100. No Angie Dickinson. Indefensible. In no particular order, my top picks: Ann-Margret, Tina Turner, Barbara Stanwyck,
Whenever I think of the Huffington Post newsroom I think of the frat house from “PCU.” That’s the only possible explanation for the is-it-or-isn’t-it-true story posted to HuffPo yesterday detailing how Eric Boehlert firmly believes that the bearded Verizon guy
The good news: the hippies and freaks in Zuccotti Park were finally swept away by law enforcement a few weeks ago. The bad news: they simply took their protests to other places–homeless shelters, other public parks, bridges, and now retailers.
As lawyers say, lets stipulate that the political system is broken. We have, in the past, railed against special tax incentives for business that are often outmoded, ill conceived, and are generally ineffective. These, more often than not, merely distort
From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: The FBI has released photos, videos, and documents in the case of 10 Russian secret agents arrested–and quickly deported–in 2010. The documents are mostly heavily redacted and of no practical value to those interested
While Marxists spout equality and equal worth, they are not above claiming ownership of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Turns out some are more equal than others. UFT President Michael Mulgrew leads an #Occupy protest LaborNotes reports: “Unions and other
Big Journalism has learned that the Occupy Washington DC movement is working with well-known media members to craft its demands and messaging while these media members report on the movement. Someone has made the emails from the Occupy Wall Street
Team Obama is out and about mourning a “double-dip recession,” while Fed head Ben Bernanke is warning of a faltering economy. I have described the current economic environment as the front end of a recession. But Obama’s populist, class-warfare attack
As a preface, sometimes it helps to have been “on the other side” when trying to determine what the unions’ game plan is within the Obama Administration. What you are about to read comes from having been on the other
It looks like it is finally going to happen. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has finally gotten their net neutrality regulations through the bureaucratic mess, and now it [IS] only a matter of times before they start to take effect.
In recent weeks, I have been interested in Google and in the telecommunications companies. It’s not the typical “institutional left” topic on which I usually tend to focus. At least, not on the surface. The truth is, these industries ARE