If there was a group or organization that opposed the ACLU in every case, that took the opposite positions, I would probably be willing to contribute a modest amount.

As it is, the only civil liberties organization I belong to is the NRA.

Clapper was told the day before the hearing that he would be asked this question. He had an entire day to craft a truthful answer or to decline to answer the question in an open hearing. A trained lawyer would not have lied under oath. Clapper is a career military officer and must not have considered the consequences of telling a bald-faced lie.

Here are more appropriate questions for our Dear Leader: Why have you been endorsed in the last two presidential elections by the Communist Party of the United States? Why would the CPUSA do that?

You are correct, sir, that truck drivers cannot use Google Maps. Larger trucks are only allowed on certain streets and roads, and Google Maps does not identify truck routes.

I have found that Google makes corrections to Maps when users notify them of the problems. I can immediately think of three reports I sent in which resulted in corrections.

Have you tried to tell Google about the problem with your location?

Because of that old speed-of-light conundrum, it makes sense to fit the processors and memory as close as possible to each other. A round shape is optimal, a cylindrical shape is essentially the same. Spreading everything out inside a huge box may be convenient for upgrades, but it slows down the speed of operations.

Moving the other peripherals outside the device and connecting them with cables also helps with the heat problem.

I think the new Mac Pro is fantastic, but I have no personal need for anything with even 1/10th this much power.

Absolutely nothing in this article suggests that FlatWorld is anything except a patent troll.

I agree with your depiction of the progressive ideal as "an aristocracy of intellectuals". I prefer to think of them as the equivalent of the nomenklatura in the old Soviet Union: a ruling class producing nothing, and impoverishing the working people it claims to speak for.

What do Charles and David Koch do for ordinary people? For starters, Koch Industries employs over 60,000 of them at high-paying jobs. And it makes products which are needed by ordinary people, or by other companies which in turn make goods that ordinary people need. So the people you hate and the company they run are a powerful force for good in this country

As for income equality, that is a socialist concept which would be out of character for anyone with a libertarian philosophy. So don't expect them to suddenly endorse the agenda of the totalitarian Left.

I don't care one way or the other about this article. The author refers to the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) as "a respected nonpartisan nonprofit". But when I go to that group's website, I found that it received $400,000 from the Ford Foundation, $350,000 from Open Society Foundations (Soros), $150,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, $50,000 from the Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation, an undisclosed amount from the Tides Foundation (Soros), $400,000 from the MacArthur Foundation, and money from other groups that could be Soros' front organizations.

Then I see that the Sunlight Foundation gets its resources from some of the same groups: the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Foundations (Soros), the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Foundation to Promote Open Society (Soros), the Open Society Institute (Soros), and so on. Its biggest contributor is the eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar, through his Omidyar Network; Omidyar appears to take direction from George Soros, donating lots of money to groups where Soros has given smaller amounts.

Sunlight also calls itself a "nonpartisan non-profit", and that is true, but also irrelevant. The CRP and Sunlight Foundation promote a hard-left agenda -- the agenda of George Soros; they do not have to give money to politicians to have an impact on politics. And I'm certain they had no trouble getting or keeping IRS approval for their 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 tax-exempt status.

My 2011 Mini is more powerful than my 2005 Mac Pro. There aren't many people who need a desktop computer with more guts than the Mac Mini.

Your link refutes your claim that Indians are racists. To win arguments, you must avoid presenting contrary evidence.

India is one of the places that I would like to visit. I can't think of any reason to go to Pakistan, unless I wanted to be tortured then killed by Muslim fanatics. Fix your own country before disparaging the people of India.

Aren't all of India's enemies on the same continent? Why does it need an intercontinental-range missile?

But it seems as though Yahoo is torn between preservation and relevance. It's kind of like AOL about 10 or 15 years ago.

It seems as though that list contains a lot of redundancy. How many groups, committees, organizations, agencies, bureaus, offices, institutes, networks, departments, centres, "teams", stations, and offices -- all doing essentially the same or similar work, most of them promoting a leftwing agenda -- does any country really need? and how many can the taxpayers afford?

The US government needs to do what the Canadian government is doing. Too bad it will most likely have to wait till 2017 for that to begin.