Excerpt from an interview with Linus Torvalds: Interviewer: Out of curiosity, do you have anything to say to hardware manufacturers who refuse to release datasheets or specifications about the functioning of their hardware so it could operate with the Linux kernel? Linus: Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong? Recently, the CPU manufacturer AMD purchased ATI, which makes graphics cards. ATI graphics cards are used extensively, and there is a 50/50 chance you have one yourself. For...

9/11 - the big cover-up? Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission now admits that the official evidence they were given was 'far from the truth'. By Peter Tatchell 09/12/07 "Guardian" -- -- Six years after 9/11, the American public have still not been provided with a full and truthful account of the single greatest terror attack in US history. What they got was a turkey. The 9/11 Commission was hamstrung by official obstruction. It never managed to ascertain the whole truth of what happened on...

for today: Joe Briggs of Policy Watch. Listen Live here 11-1pm Texas time.

For a day. Hopefully I'll have the Youtube link soon... Thanks to David Beito. Update: MP3 here. Seriously. Listen to this. Via Tex.

for Today: Andrew Tilghman You Listen live at KAOS959.com from 11-1pm.

Get to know the man: Tex explains the tech coolness here.

Don't go toe to toe with Ron Paul on the facts, he will get the best of you every time. Too bad he didn't have time to explain that a two-way border skirmish between Hezbollah and Israel gone out of control hardly amounts to Iran starting a war by any stretch, if Tehran gave a nuke to terrorists, they still have a return address, Ahmadinejad never threatened to wipe Israel off of anything, they can't make a nuke, and it's pronounced carte blanche. Maybe next time...

Details on Dr. Paul at Aaron Russo's Memorial Service in West Hollywood.

for today: Michael Scheuer. Listen live here 11-1pm Texas time. MP3 here.

LRC Blog passes on an FMNN report that Huckabee has accepted CNN's invite for a toe to toe with Ron Paul on the terror war. Where are you going to be without Guito the gangster and Sally the Massachusetts governor at your back, punk? Update: FMNN is not a very reliable source and this would really be shooting downward for Dr. Paul dontcha think?

How much did you give him? Why should you give him anything?:

for Today:Gareth Porter Listen live here 11-1pm.

Part One in a Three-Part Series, by John Dean. At the outset of Conservatives Without Conscience, I provided a quick and highly incomplete summary of Altemeyer's findings, explaining that his empirical testing revealed "that authoritarians are frequently enemies of freedom, antidemocratic, anti-equality, highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power hungry, Machiavellian, and amoral." To be clear, these are not assessments that Altemeyer makes himself about these people; rather, this is how those he...

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