Here is the new blog my daughter started to celebrate her family, husband Steve, son Shawn, and of course brand new baby daughter Isabella.
Of course I couldn’t be more proud to see her start her new blog. She’s a world class photographer so make sure you check out the pictures and [...]

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The Ny Times continues it’s slide into the epitome of the World Weekly News with this article about how blogging might just kill you in your pajamas?
“SAN FRANCISCO ‚Äî They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece ‚Äî not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may [...]

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To The Texas Rainmaker:
“Back on March 13, 2003, this blog was born. Inspired by the desire to respond to the Dixie Chicks‚Äô incessant whining about censorship and their inability to actually know what censorship was - and having grown tired of posting my thoughts randomly around the web and continually talking back to the talking [...]

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This editorial in the LA Times is the latest MSM salvo against bloggers. Writer Michael Skube lends us to believe that “real reporting” is best left the professionals.
“In our time, the Washington Post’s reporting, in late 2005, of the CIA’s secret overseas prisons and its painstaking reports this year on problems at Walter [...]

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I haven’t blogged about the - now false - “Badhdad Diarist” simply because others such as The Weekly Standard were on it since the get go. Then I read fellow Heading Right blogger, Rick Moran’s post which got a lot of airing out yesterday - especially by Ace.
Now it appears that in fact [...]

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Good news, especially for those of us who use confidential sources:
“WASHINGTON–A congressional panel on Wednesday voted, against the Bush administration’s wishes, to shield journalists including advertising-supported bloggers from having to reveal their confidential sources in many situations.
By a voice vote only after politicians spent nearly two hours airing various misgivings, the U.S. House of Representatives [...]

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Mike of Cold Fury blog lost his wife Christina in a tragic accident on Friday, please drop by and send your condolences.

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I’d like to toss in an additional plug for Saturday’s MacRanger show.¬† Not only¬†do we get the usual¬†performance from Mac and myself, but there is also¬†an appearance by my co-blogger, discussing a bit of a bombshell that he broke on Called as Seen.
This is a particularly important show, if you want my unsolicited/free opinion.  So [...]

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At least according to William Safire, speaking on proposed legislation to protect bloggers as well as media type against revealing sources in their stories with the Free Flowing of Information Act.
“William Safire, a longtime New York Times columnist and former Nixon administration speech writer, praised the bill’s current definition because he said it focuses on [...]

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Apparently they have according to this wired article:
“The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops’ online activities since the start of the Iraq [...]

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