RON PAUL: Live by sword, die by sword

Former congressman and libertarian icon Ron Paul tweeted a startling reaction to the death of SEAL sniper Chris Kyle on Monday:

 

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Ad accuses Obama of defending ‘racism against white folks

Has Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, failed to live up to the dream of civil rights icon Martin Luther King? That’s one of several startling claims made in a new ad accusing Obama of “tacitly defending black racism before and since being elected.”

“The Obama administration has injected race into the presidential campaign,” the narrator intones at the beginning. “Obama Attorney General Eric Holder recently said, with no [...]

SHE’S NOT ME: MADONNA FIGHTS BACK; USES CLONE GAGA SONG IN TOUR SURPRISE

Here’s an interesting way to throw shade: months after referring to Lady Gaga’s single “Born This Way” as “reductive” of her own work, Madonna was caught on tape rehearsing a mash-up of “Born This Way” and the song it’s said to very closely resemble, “Express Yourself.” (She’s going on tour this summer.) Madonna didn’t have to work too hard to mash them up–they are, indeed, quite similar–though the final song [...]

Microsoft is going to release Windows 8 to the public as a free beta trial on February 29.

by Steve Kovach

Mozilla is already getting a jump start onFirefox for Windows 8, giving the browser a fancy new look to match Microsoft’s new “Metro” interface for tablets..

In a Wiki entry for Mozilla developers, the group details its plans for the first version of Firefox to run on Windows 8 tablets.

Here’s what we know so far:

Firefox will run in full screen mode, just like most Windows 8 tablet apps.

The browser will look pretty much the same [...]

CNBC icon dead at the age of 65, CNBC says. NYSE floor in shock

From WSJ:

CNBC icon dead at the age of 65, CNBC says. Not sure entirely what the circumstances were. Carlos Quintanilla, David Faber and Joe Kernan are eulogizing him now on air.

The network just showed shots of the NYSE floor, which seemed in shock.

Developing…

Think you like Facebook? Think again. Facebook-Obsessed Couple Names Baby “Like”

Think you like Facebook? Think again.

An Israeli couple likes Facebook so much that they named their newborn daughter “Like.” You know as in the like icon on the popular Palo Alto-based social-networking site.

“To me it is important to give my children names that are not used anywhere else, at least not in Israel,” the father told the German Press Agency dpa.”If once people gave Biblical names [...]

If there are enough people withdrawing their money, the system collapses. No weapon, no blood, or anything like that.

by zh

Enter Eric Cantona – just ask any sport afficionado who the most entertaining, flamboyant and skillful football player of 1990′s Manchester United was and 9 out of 10 times you will hear that name. The icon (both in England and France) whose on field antics were only matched by his kung fu skills, and who has a massive popular following, has been recorded agitating [...]