The Deets

Beyond description. Just watch it:

It turns out that Haliburton refused to inform the military that water being used by troops was contaminated: Troops and civilians at a U.S. military base in Iraq were exposed to contaminated water last year and employees for the responsible contractor, Halliburton, couldn’t get their company to inform camp residents, according to interviews and internal [...]

Why does President Bush reward companies for moving their headquarters off-shore? Why does our tax system reward companies for taking jobs away from Americans?: Patriot Corporations “If you want to make Americans of all stripes mad, tell them about the billions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks our government gives to companies that outsource [...]

A well reasoned explanation of how Bush actually helps Bin Laden, and vice versa: AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth: “Bush and Bin Laden really owe each other a lot. In a sick way, they’ve made each other’s careers. Bush’s failure to deal with Bin Laden’s impending attack on the U.S. made Bin [...]

Looks like it pays to be accountable. Left-wing blogs are growing at a faster rate because they allow comments and community participation according to MyDD.com. Why are right-wing blogs so worried about allowing people to comment on their blogs? Don’t they have their facts straight? MyDD :: Aristocratic Right Wing Blogosphere Stagnating: “At least when [...]

John McCain’s take on Bush’s illegal wiretaps really hits the nail on the head. If the president needs more authority, he should come to congress and explain why. They’re not going to turn down a legitimate request. Since the president did not come to congress or a judge to request authority to spy on Americans, [...]

Personally, I find Laura Bush’s comment much more ridiculous than Hillary Clinton’s because Hillary at least was making a point and explained her point. Laura Bush tried to dismiss Clinton’s comment without actually addressing the point Hillary made. No substance. First Lady lashes out at Hillary’s ‘plantation’ remark: “Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s description this week [...]

Glenn Greenwald has put together a great breakdown of why the blogosphere is putting pressure on traditional journalism: “The principal benefit from the emergence of the blogosphere is that it has opened up our political discourse to a much wider and more diverse group of participants. Previously, establishment journalists and their hand-picked commentators were the [...]

Day 3 of CES, and we’re starting to feel the pain, but it’s so exciting we just can’t stop. In this report we bring you Sling Box, the new dual core Toshiba laptop, and Google in all their Googleness. Tomorrow is the final day of CES, and we have a lot planned; however, due to [...]

Everyone at Technology Evangelist would like to give a big thank you to Herby for making the 2006 CES HDTV feeds available as bittorrent files. These files will help reduce the strain on the Technology Evangelist servers and reduce the amount of bandwidth utilized overall. It’s fellow evangelists like Herby that make this site so [...]