The Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, August 2010

DBKP has released its (mostly) monthly ratings of the Most Popular 100 Conservative sites on the web, the Conservative 100. The ratings are based on Alexa traffic rankings 3-month worldwide average.

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Sarah Palin's Strengths and Weaknesses Looking at 2012

Although Sarah Palin is successfully building a network of supporters, she has also aliened some Republicans whose help she will need if she runs in 2012. Sarah Palin would do well to remember the year 1870. That was the year the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted. Significantly, it states that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged…on the account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” It did not include the word “gender.” Women would have to wait until the Nineteenth Amendment, adopted in 1920. The 1870 Fifteenth Amendment demoralized the American women’s movement...

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FCC Stalls on Internet Regulation; Asks for More Comments (Posturing Pustules Nonplussed.)

...[I]mmediately, the far left was up in arms. Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge said the questions “were extensively explored in not one, but two proceedings.” Media Access Project’s Matt Wood remarked, “The commission asks the same questions time and time again… instead of providing basic answers.” Free Press’s S. Derek Turner declared, “We don’t need more questions from the FCC, we need more answers.” Is this an admission that they didn’t supply correct answers during prior proceedings? Or are they just concerned that the Commission may deviate from an authoritarian approach that regulates the Internet from the top down under...

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"Mom, I'm In Jail"

01 September 2010 "MOM, I'M IN JAIL." SNIPPET: "The administrator of the Ansar al-Mujahideen forum (Arabic), Faical Errai, has been arrested in Spain."

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Facebook wants to control the words “Face” and “Book”

If you have any interest in starting a social network of your own, or pretty much any online venture, you better think twice before you try to use the words “Face” or “Book” in your name unless you want Mark Zuckerberg’s lawyers to come calling. News has been spreading around the Web that Facebook’s lawyers have taken up a lawsuit against a yet-to-launch social network for professional teachers called Teachbook.com. The reasoning behind this is explained in the suit: "If others could freely use ‘generic plus BOOK’ marks for online networking services targeted to that particular generic category of individuals,...

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