Author Archives: Gaius

iFootsteps

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Gaius

Oh dear. Apple’s iPhone and iPad are under assault from an Android. Or rather, from Android. Item: Android is now the top operating system for smart phones: In terms of market share, Android grew 615 percent from 2009 to take … Continue reading →

Posted in Geek Stuff | 5 Comments

Constitutional Moment

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Gaius

The Wall Street Journal: Unlike Judge Henry Hudson in Virginia, who also found ObamaCare to be unconstitutional, Judge Vinson addresses the Administration’s fallback argument that the Constitution’s Necessary and Proper Clause justifies the law even if the Commerce Clause doesn’t. … Continue reading →

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Loose Dope

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Gaius

Korey Rowe, a producer of Loose Change, the troofer conspiracy theory movie about 9/11 has been arrested for selling heroin. A producer of a documentary alleging conspiracy theories behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been arrested on drug charges … Continue reading →

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The Great White North Midwest

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Gaius

ABC News is reporting it as an “Enormous storm packing a punch forecasters say hasn’t been seen in years.”  We are already under the beast and have had icing all day with up to six inches of snow tonight and … Continue reading →

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The Entire Act Is Declared Void

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Gaius

A Federal judge has declared the entire ObamaCare act void. Stressing that the individual mandate was unconstitutional and that the government had argued that the mandate was absolutely essential to the entire act, the judge followed the logic and declared … Continue reading →

Posted in Legal, Medicine | 1 Comment

Happy Groundhog Day

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Gaius

Oh, joy. A major – really major – blizzard appears to be setting up for a huge section of the United States: A Groundhog Day Blizzard can shut down the Chicago area under feet of snow fueled by a bone-chilling … Continue reading →

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Threat To Mosque – Maybe Not What It Seems

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Gaius

This just popped at Memeorandum – I had seen it a short time before over at Fox News. Basically, a 63-year old California man was apprehended outside a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan mosque with “explosives” – actually identified as “Class … Continue reading →

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Two Californias

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Gaius

I missed this when it was first published at NRO. Victor Davis Hanson did a little bit of a survey of the conditions on the ground in California. The results are far from pretty: Many of the rural trailer-house compounds … Continue reading →

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Critical Security Patches For Internet Explorer

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Gaius

Two workarounds are out for two very nasty flaws in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The fixes can be downloaded and installed from here and here (I installed them in that order). No kidding, folks, if you use IE at all, you … Continue reading →

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Location, Location, Location

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Gaius

Perfect. Just perfect. Tweet

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Hamas In Egypt?

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Gaius

Stratfor says they have a source who says so. They have no confirmation of it, yet, however: The Egyptian police are no longer patrolling the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Hamas armed men are entering into Egypt and are closely … Continue reading →

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Looting

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Gaius

Very bad things have been happening in Egypt. This is really appalling. Be very, very careful what you wish for. I am not a fan of the usual method of rule in most of the Middle East, but this is … Continue reading →

Posted in World news | 2 Comments

My Son’s Dream Vacation

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Gaius

My youngest boy’s dream vacation spot – actually, where he would prefer to live. The museum site is here. Tweet

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You’re Gonna Need A Piano Tuna

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Gaius

The saga of the Miami Piano (Sand)Bar continues. We have a copycat and a piano hijack of sorts: A day after a baby grand piano was removed from a sandbar in Miami, authorities discovered that another prankster set up a … Continue reading →

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Stay Classy, Village Voice!

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Gaius

CNN Reports: ‘Escort’ services help bolster online classified site When Craigslist pulled the plug on its adult services section last summer, it stepped out of a raging controversy over accusations its site had become a marketplace for pimps to sell … Continue reading →

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