CINGULAR, PRICELINE, TRAVELOCITY fined for using adware.

CHRIS HEDGES calls for censorship of the “radical Christian Right.”

IT’S STILL 1968. And always will be, apparently.

UPDATE: Hey, the spitting is back:

There were a few tense moments, however, including an encounter involving Joshua Sparling, 25, who was on crutches and who said he was a corporal with the 82nd Airborne Division and lost his right leg below the knee in Ramadi, Iraq. Mr. Sparling spoke at a smaller rally held earlier in the day at the United States Navy Memorial, and voiced his support for the administration’s policies in Iraq.

Later, as antiwar protesters passed where he and his group were standing, words were exchanged and one of the antiwar protestors spit at the ground near Mr. Sparling; he spit back.

Capitol police made the antiwar protestors walk farther away from the counterprotesters.

“These are not Americans as far as I’m concerned,” Mr. Sparling said.

Quick, rerelease Electric Ladyland!

MORE Hezbollah fauxtography.

ED FELTEN says that the music industry has boxed itself in over copy protection. (Via TechMeme).

DAVID BELL: Was 9/11 really that bad?

Plus, identifying the real enemy.

UPDATE: Comments on the Bell piece, here.

XENI JARDIN reports from Guatemala. And she’s got a cool new series called Xeni Tech.

THE Carnival of the Capitalists is up! So is the Blawg Review. Lots more carnivals at BlogCarnival.com — and don’t miss the Blog Carnival box in my right sidebar.

SUPERMAXING the brain?

DNA EXONERATES THE INNOCENT: Except when it doesn’t.

Plus, an anti-railroading society?

HEH: “There Are Two Americas; John Edwards’ New House Takes Up Almost All of One Of Them.”

I have nothing against lawyers getting rich, but the mansion thing does make it harder to pose as a horny-handed tiller of the soil.

MULTICULTURALISM CONTINUES TO FAIL: ” A growing number of young Muslims in Britain are inspired by political Islam and in favour of Sharia law, Islamic dress for women and faith schools, according to a study. The survey of 1,003 Muslims by pollsters Populus for the independent Policy Exchange think-tank also suggested there was greater support for militant Islamist groups among the young.”

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UPDATE: Hey, when I posted this link it said the book was shipping. Now it’s back to saying “pre-order.” Official publication date is 2/06, but my author’s copies are here. Sorry, I’ll let you know when it’s really out.

AT CHICAGOBOYZ: “Whatever hits the fan is never evenly distributed.’

Some of these issues are also touched on here.

REAL REASONS AND ACCEPTABLE REASONS: An interesting speech by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin.

BILL ROGGIO on the fighting in Najaf.

JIMMY CARTER: “TOO MANY JEWS” on the Holocaust Council.

Professor Freedman, now a law professor at Hofstra University, also confirmed that a respected Holocaust scholar was rejected as a board member by Carter’s office because the scholar’s name “sounded too Jewish” — although he was a Presbyterian Christian. Mr. Freedman told us that the WND account was “entirely accurate” except that Elie Wiesel, not Freedman himself, had selected the board members.

We asked Professor Freedman why he decided to publicize details of this Carter memo now. He said that he had told the story repeatedly over the years in private circles, but only now did someone mention the story to a reporter who called him up to ask if it was true.

It just gets worse.

DON SURBER: “Let’s cut to the chase: The Hillary campaign is held back by one man. Divorce him. . . . If Britney Spears is smart enough to dump K-Fed, surely the valedictorian of the Wellesley Class of ‘69 can figure this out.”

DAVE HARDY on fake gun-rights groups.

MICKEY KAUS: “Labor costs–and specifically work rules–are part of what’s killing all the unionized auto manufacturers while their non-unionized competitors thrive.” Work rules, I think, are more damaging than pay issues because they cost flexibility and make it harder to introduce new technology.