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.

OFFICIALLY-SANCTIONED GRAFFITI?

Anti-war protesters were allowed to spray paint on part of the west front steps of the United States Capitol building after police were ordered to break their security line by their leadership, two sources told The Hill.

According to the sources, police officers were livid when they were told to fall back by U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief Phillip Morse and Deputy Chief Daniel Nichols. “They were the commanders on the scene,” one source said,who requested anonymity. “It was disgusting.”

Jeez.

SANDY BERGER UPDATE:

Philip Zelikow and Daniel Marcus, respectively the executive director and general counsel of the 9/11 Commission, told Mr. Davis’s investigators that they were never told Mr. Berger had access to original classified documents for which no copies existed. Had he known, Mr. Zelikow says, he would had “grave concern.”

As it was, the 9/11 Commission was not informed of any investigation of Mr. Berger’s alleged tampering with documents until only two days before his testimony, and then in only the most vague terms. Not only were the 9/11 Commission not told that Mr. Berger had access to original documents; they were affirmatively led to believe that the commission got all the documents that Mr. Berger took. Both Mr. Zelikow and Mr. Marcus understood Justice to mean that there was no way Mr. Berger had taken any other documents. An investigator for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee bluntly told Fox News last week: “The Justice Department lied to the 9/11 Commission about Sandy Berger. That is a fact.” A Justice Department spokesman still insists it “has no evidence that Sandy Berger’s actions deprived the 9/11 Commission of documents.” But that raises the question: How hard did Justice look for such evidence?

The 9/11 Commission wishes it had known answers to that and more. It’s time that Congress and the public learn why the Berger scandal was treated so nonchalantly.

I think there’s more to this than we know, so far.

PATRICK RUFFINI sends this video of George Will making “the conservative case for Giuliani.”

Meanwhile, Joe Lieberman may back a Republican.

FORGET BIPARTISANSHIP: Try respect.

PODCASTING ABOUT the joys of podcasting.