The Death of Privacy
My wife recently applied for a job on line with a major US corporation. Within minutes, she received an email asking her to confirm that she was associated with another individual who works for the company, a close friend of our daughter. The HR department had apparently automatically screened Facebook and other social networking sites [...]
Liberty NewsWire: December 19, 2011
CBS News correspondent Celia Hatton reports news of Kim's death was met with a flood of televised emotion in North Korea, as state TV showed orderly columns of state officials weeping dramatically, and ordinary North Koreans beside themselves in apparent grief on the streets of Pyongyang. In South Korea, however, like much of the rest [...]
Vladimir Putin and the Phenomenon of the Broken Clock
It is said that even a broken clock is right twice a day, and so it is with Russia's Vladimir Putin. He's no squishy believer in individual liberty, but he has accurately assessed American foreign policy. Reported MSNBC: "Sometimes it seems to me that America does not need allies, it needs vassals," the Russian prime [...]





