As I noted in DRM: Time for Legislation?, having a “protected key” or other copy protection scheme managed by an outside company restricts consumer rights. In that post, I noted Microsoft’s decision to shut down their authorization servers, effectively disabling the songs that people purchased (Microsoft later relented).

Now, 28.8 BILLION dollar cap Yahoo! demonstrates, [...]

Investor’s Business Daily also has some words in this editorial, but the chart pretty much says it all:

Yep.

Most of the developments on the alternative energy front are, at most, “possibilities” and not practical realities. Just focusing on automobiles for the moment, many of the promising articles you have read are little more than promotional pieces by people looking for investors:

Electric Cars: You hear a lot about $100,000 roadsters that will [...]

While the press wonders what is really going on with Sen. Obama’s tour of Iraq and Afghanistan, it is clear that Obama feels Afghanistan is the real center of terrorist activity. There is an implied assertion that Iraq was a waste of time, and our real focus should have been Afghanistan all along.

But the [...]

When the walls come tumblin’ down;
When the walls come crumblin’, crumblin’;
When the walls come tumblin’, tumblin’ down.

Now comes Lanny Davis, former Special Counsel to President Clinton, with a new view of the Iraq War after considering the events of the last few weeks. As he writes in the Washington [...]