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• The Facebook Photos You Deleted Years Ago Could Still Exist…and Facebook Knows It

  February 6, 2012 at 11:11am

  That’s a fairly standard way of handling content on such a massive website. They probably just flag the photo as “deleted” and make it unviewable but don’t actually delete it from their system.

• Ron Paul supporter’s face captures ups and downs of campaign

  February 1, 2012 at 10:16am

  That’s a rather biased first sentence. Anyway – what a non-story. You mean to say that you can take screen captures from a video and show a person holding their face differently?? Stop the presses!

• It’s Official: State GOP Confirms Santorum Iowa Winner

  January 21, 2012 at 10:40am

  They should at least do the voters the courtesy of re-voting in the districts where votes were lost. It is an outrage that they neglected to count entire precincts when the election was so close.

  “It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.” – Josef Stalin

• It’s Official: State GOP Confirms Santorum Iowa Winner

  January 21, 2012 at 10:31am

  In reply to tbolt71.

  How can they declare a winner when they have more missing votes than the gap between candidates? This is corruption at its lowest.

• Media Claim Fact Check: Santorum‘s Tax Plan Will ’Blow a Hole in the Budget’ & Give Most Tax Cuts to the Wealthy

  January 20, 2012 at 2:01pm

  In reply to Solfire.

  Sure thing. On August 4th, 2005 in an NPR interview, Santorum said:
  “One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a Libertarianish right.

  They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues.

  That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There is no such society that I’m aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”

  He actually goes a bit further than just saying that the government has a place in the bedroom. He says that there is no society that he’s aware of that has a great deal of individualism that is successful.

• Media Claim Fact Check: Santorum‘s Tax Plan Will ’Blow a Hole in the Budget’ & Give Most Tax Cuts to the Wealthy

  January 20, 2012 at 12:01pm

  Santorum attacked Ron Paul for wanting to allow states to handle Abortion, but in 2003 Santorum favored states taking care of abortion as well! What a flipping hypocrite.

  Santorum: “I would put it back to where it is, the democratic process. If New York doesn’t want sodomy laws, if the people of New York want abortion, fine. I mean, I wouldn’t agree with it, but that’s their right. But I don’t agree with the Supreme Court coming in.”

  And then he slams RP for the same stance? Santorum favored and defended laws outlawing oral sex and is on record saying that the government has a place in the bedroom. I’m monogamously married (i.e., I have NOT requested an open marriage! heh) and can‘t say that I’m thrilled by various non-traditional …um… acts, but the government has no place telling people which non-violent or consensual acts they may participate in with their partner. That is NOT small government and they do not need that power.

• ‘China-esq’: Beck Explains Why You Should Be Worried About SOPA and PIPA

  January 19, 2012 at 2:42pm

  In reply to SychinLegacy.

  Glenn is always telling us that we should do our own research and that you have to know the context of someone’s statement before jumping to conclusions. Yet they quoted Ron Paul as saying (paraphrasing) “75% of blacks are criminals” when the entire sentence was (paraphrasing) “If you go by the DC arrest rates, you could safely assume that 75% of blacks are criminals”. It’s called sarcasm – something that I thought the staff at The Blaze would know.

  Ron wasn’t critiquing black people, he was critiquing the DC police force for arresting an overwhelming number of their race while ignoring others. It wasn’t a racist statement – he was standing up for minorities!

• Glitch? Here‘s How To Beat Wikipedia’s Blackout

  January 18, 2012 at 5:09pm

  In reply to Rick_Walker.

  One of my state reps who co-sponsored the bill has copywritten pictures posted on his facebook account. I doubt that he’ll respond to me, but I had to point that out on his page.

• Glitch? Here‘s How To Beat Wikipedia’s Blackout

  January 18, 2012 at 5:08pm

  In reply to BODYBAG.

  The bill has bipartisan support and bipartisan opposition. Governmental seizure of web hosts because of user posted violations is a tremendous power grab. It is already illegal to steal, they don’t need to add levels of bureaucracy onto the Internet to make it so.

• Glitch? Here‘s How To Beat Wikipedia’s Blackout

  January 18, 2012 at 5:04pm

  In reply to another pucker.

  It’s already illegal to pirate copywritten material. The problem with SOPA isn’t that it bans copyright violations, it’s that it allows accusers to shut down the entire host because of an alleged violation.

  It would be like Matel shutting down Walmart because someone stole a barbie. They’re free to arrest people that post torrents of movies, rip and distribute songs, etc., but it is a huge burden on website hosts to police all content posted by users. Sites like Youtube, Facebook, Wikipedia, and even The Blaze could be shut down by the government if a user posted such material. It is the mother of overbearing regulation being forced onto one of the most free aspects of society.