DECEMBER 6, 2010 We should think of cyberattacks as guided missiles and respond similarly—intercept them and retaliate. By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Not many people realize that all of our nation’s air, land and sea forces rely on network technologies that are vulnerable to cyberweapons, including logistics, command and control, fleet positioning and […]
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THE ROCHE RECORD, by Frank Roche, economist November 22, 2010 GORE AGREES, CONSULAR ID’S, FONDLING YOU AND ME, PLUS SOME Gore now agrees about corn ethanol: Giving yet another speech on foreign soil (Athens this time) critical of the US, Al Gore came clean on corn ethanol. I’ll give him credit for admitting it, though to do so
Web Censorship Bill Sails Through Senate Committee By Sam Gustin November 18, 2010 Who says Congress never gets anything done? On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity”
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The problem with electric cars. Jonathan V. Last October 25, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 06 The age of the electric car is here. Everyone says so. There it is emblazoned on the cover of the latest Wired magazine: “The age of the electric car is here. CHARGE!” In the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The myth of an environmentally friendly People’s Republic. Ethan Epstein October 25, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 06 Beijing “There’s nothing we can do,” the taxi driver says in heavily accented Mandarin, as he shrugs and lights a cigarette, “this is Beijing.” His car is caught in a vast expanse
On Climate Change California Dreaming: Missing America’s Wake-Up Call Larry Bell, 11.10.10, 11:25 AM ET What happened to the notion that “where California goes, so goes the nation”? The Nov. 2 midterm election results demonstrated something very different: The Golden State zagged, while most of the country zigged. That dynamic applied pretty much across the
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Beijing spying feared in telecom proposal Chinese firm would make parts Washington Times November 5, 2010 by Eli Lake EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: John Tkacik, who was the chief intelligence analyst on China for the State Department during the Clinton administration, said the employee ownership of Huawei does not diminish the company’s close ties to
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Computer worm creates an opening for copycats By Shaun Waterman The Washington Times Sunday, October 10, 2010 **FILE** In this photo from Nov. 30, 2009, released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, the reactor building of Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen just outside the port city of Bushehr, 750 miles south of
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NEWS & OBSERVER Oct 29, 2010 HOW CHINA GAINED A RARE EARTH EDGE DURHAM People are wrong if they think that China couldn’t possibly obtain any more power over America than it already has. The latest problem is rare earth elements. Rare earth elements are, well, rare. They are mostly a group of 15 metals
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