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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. One thing that’s slightly frustrating about the article is that it seems to focus on the pro-life issue. Trent Lott didn’t get into trouble for opposing abortion, he got into trouble for parading his ignorance of racial issues in front of the American people, which [...]

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I know that I link entirely too often to Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo, but hopefully you’ll continue to indulge me. He wrote a post today on racism and the Republican party that’s a must read. His basic point is that Republicans are not inherently racist, but that they cash in on racism to win [...]

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So I read an article about why JSP sucks, and this was the first response:

This is why I don’t recommend Java for web development, and just use PHP. With many template implementations out there for PHP, it’s simple to have someone use dreamweaver and just put little {MY_VAR} where the data goes!

How is this in [...]

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If there’s one thing that remains a constant in politics, it’s nepotism. It kind of makes you wonder whether there’s a genetic predisposition toward monarchy in the human race. People love to put the children of politicians in office, and there are still plenty of monarchists running around in the world. In Hawaii, for example, [...]

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Jabber is making a list of applications that could serve as prior art when it comes to fighting the AOL (ICQ) patent that covers instant messaging.

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Is it just me, or does the Bush administration make some creepy, proposal for new violations of our privacy every single day? Today the New York Times reports that the Bush administration is proposing a centralized monitoring system for the entire Internet. Sure, it could be used to monitor the activities of individual users, [...]

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Colin Powell on Iraq: It’s go time.

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In my previous item, I overzealously tarred abstinence programs unfairly. Mark Hershberger sent me an email pointing out that abstinence programs have enjoyed some success in Africa, which, in fact makes sense to me. Clearly abstaining from sex until you decide you actually want children is incredibly effective at preventing unwanted pregnancy and sexually [...]

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For the Bush administration, promoting abstinence is more than a pipe dream, it’s a keystone of our foreign policy:

Standing before a hall packed with representatives from over 30 Asian countries, Dewey stated unequivocally that the U.S. would seek to block the passage of any international family planning policy that permits abortion or promotes contraception [...]

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One of the ways you know IntelliJ IDEA is a killer product is that every time you open it, the tip of the day actually teaches you something rather useful.

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