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The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General published a new report Monday that confirms former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious scandal whistleblower John Dodson. The DOJ IG said it found “Burke’s conduct in disclosing the Dodson memorandum to be inappropriate for a Department employee and wholly unbefitting a U.S. Attorney.” “We are referring to OPR our finding that Burke violated Department policy in disclosing the Dodson memorandum to a member of the media for a determination of whether Burke’s conduct violated the Rules of Professional Conduct for the state...

It looks like Yahoo has offered to buy Tumblr for the sticker-shock price of $1.1 billion. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised, since just a few days ago Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman spoke about the need for the company (YHOO) to be "cool" again. But Yahoo shareholders invest for returns, not for cool. Yahoo employees have a big chunk of their net worth tied to their stock. It may be sexy for Yahoo to buy Tumblr, but will it have a positive return? I believe the answer is no. To be sure, the power of math and corporate finance can build...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks fell hard on Wednesday, retreating after the prior day’s rally amid disappointing results from companies including Bank of America Corp. B. of A. shares slid 4.1% after the lender reported first-quarter earnings below Wall Street’s estimates as its mortgage business weighed. Caterpillar Inc.was down 2.4% after Macquarie downgraded the construction-equipment maker to neutral from outperform. At 2 p.m. Eastern, the Federal Reserve will release its Beige Book, which offers an economic analysis of its 12 districts.

The excitement over solar power, which once attracted billions in private investment and public subsidies, has waned recently, underscoring the limitations of renewable energies and the unchallenged dominance of fossil fuels. Some of the $75 billion sector's high profile names have fallen on hard times recently - most notably Suntech Power (STP). The China-based solar panel company rattled the industry when it filed for bankruptcy last week. In its heyday, the stock traded just shy of $90 and had a market capitalization of $16 billion: on Thursday, the last day U.S. markets were open, the shares traded around for 42...

One of Yahoo’s newest employees is a 17-year-old high school student in Britain. As of Monday, he is one of its richest, too. That student, Nick D’Aloisio, a programming whiz who wasn’t even born when Yahoo was founded in 1994, sold his news-reading app, Summly, to the company on Monday for a sum said to be in the tens of millions of dollars. Yahoo said it would incorporate his algorithmic invention, which takes long-form stories and shortens them for readers using smartphones, in its own mobile apps, with Mr. D’Aloisio’s help. “I’ve still got a year and a half left...

SNIPPET: "So there I was, doing that thing I do - targeted collection, and triage based on a range of frequently changing criteria - when I happened to notice this image:" SNIPPET: "georgi.ir: sometimes what isn't there is still interesting"

I begin this morning with a decidedly non-political topic. Yahoo! has a new CEO named Marissa Meyer. She just had a baby. She was criticized during her pregnancy for how she would or would not take maternity leave. Basically everything the lady does appears to be criticized. But the newest media outrage is perhaps the stupidest, most selfish bottom feeding outrage the media can muster. Marissa Meyer has decided that employees can no longer telecommute. They must get into a Yahoo! office. How dare she. The outrageous reporting is both entirely predictable and easily would be the stupidest media coverage...

Last Friday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer banned employees from working remotely. Human resources boss Jackie Reses sent out a memo telling all remote employees that, by June, they needed to be working in Yahoo offices. This upset many employees – mothers in particular. -snip- Mayer – who had a baby last fall – is a working mother, but she's able to bring her kid to work. That's because when Mayer had her son last fall, she paid to have a nursery built in her office.

Apparently Yahoo! Korea (the South Korean Yahoo!) ceased to exist as of 12/31/'12. Does anyone know what happened? Was there some trouble with the South Korean government? Or did Korea just decide to switch to Google? I know, it's not important in the big scheme of things, but I need a diversion!

<p>Michelle Obama has called the White House the "people's house," and similar to many American homes, it is seeing an increase in its value with the recovery of the housing market.</p> <p>Since President Barack Obama, his wife, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, moved into the White House in January 2009, the home's value has increased about 7 percent to an estimated $294.9 million, according to housing marketplace Zillow.</p>

Dieting and exercising are perhaps the most popular New Years Resolutions, but don't worry if you've indulged on a few too many holiday treats this year. Swimsuits are already trickling onto retail shelves and the spotlight is on one-piece swimwear, not bikinis. Yes, that extra inch to pinch around your tummy can potentially remain hidden all year. Every stylish celebrity from the curvier gals like Beyonce, Christina Hendricks, and Kim Kardashian, to the skinny-minnies like Taylor Swift, Kate Moss, and Kirsten Dunst are rocking one-piece bathing suits, or "maillots." As a result, the rest of us are heading directly...

U.S. administration urges Republicans not to block "fiscal cliff" deal By Mark Felsenthal | Reuters – 58 mins ago HONOLULU (Reuters) - As President Barack Obama cut short a Christmas vacation to resume talks to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of automatic year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, the White House on Wednesday called on congressional Republicans not to stand in the way of a resolution in the U.S. Congress. "It's up to the Senate Minority Leader not to block a vote, and it's up the House Republican leader, the Speaker of the House ... to allow a vote," a senior...

This only applies to those who use Yahoo E-Mail ... Has anyone noticed problems recently when clicking "Check Mail" or "Inbox"? My mother uses Yahoo E-Mail and has had a TERRIBLE time of late. Either the Inbox won't open or [if it does], she cannot perform any tasks on it [such as opening e-mail messages, deleting, moving, etc.]. I have been called in several times and have been able to get things working to some degree - but then the problem comes back in a day or two. Then, I have to get things working again. I am not doing...

Who Did You Vote For? President Barack Obama 43% Mitt Romney 57% 88,098 Votes Cast (at 11:12EST)

Anyone know if there is a way to roll-back from Yahoo's new Homepage re-design that was just launched [NOT the Yahoo Mail re-design from a few years ago]? My Mom uses Yahoo - and just got switched over. Hates the re-design, wants her old Yahoo Homepage back. This is not the My Yahoo homepage.

Yes, we do have a Free Republic page on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/26012226159/ And also on Yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/ You may wish to visit and bookmark both.

I've had it with Yahoo Mail. Oh, it's fine technically, it's the politics. Apparantly the CEO of Yahoo is an Obama Bundler, which would be fine (not really), but he lets his politics control the news stories printed. Yahoo News has become the MSNBC of the internet.So, GOODBYE, Yahoo. It's obvious we must part company. Your mail service is free but you make money on my participation (ad revenue), and this I cannot abide.Anyone have any ideas for good, stable free email services that AREN'T liberal?

The former Yahoo! News Washington bureau chief who was fired after he was heard saying Republican National Convention attendees were “happy to have a party with black people drowning” has been hired at Politico. David Chalian will serve as vice president of video programming to expand Politico’s video content, according to an internal memo. He was fired in August after he was caught on a hot mic during an online video broadcast saying RNC officials were unconcerned about holding their convention as Hurricane Isaac approached the Gulf Coast. “They’re not concerned at all,” Chalian said. “They are happy to have...

Do you think it's important for the public to see Romney's tax returns? . Yes No No opinion

In view of the thread on Free Republic re: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Is An Obama Bundler, I thought it was noteworthy that almost every video I've tried to play from Yahoo's main page today had a pro-Obama or anti-Romney ad at the start. I clicked through the start of about 20 of them in a row just to verify -- and to burn some ad buys...

Three in four Americans feel they have little or nothing in common with Mitt Romney, while nearly 60 percent feel the same way about President Barack Obama, according to an Esquire/Yahoo! News poll. In the wake of Romney's remarks dismissing nearly half of Americans as self-identified victims who are dependent on government—videotaped at a donor event earlier this year and posted online this week by Mother Jones magazine—these new numbers are more bad news for a candidate struggling to connect with ordinary Americans. The margin of error for the survey, conducted shortly after the two national political conventions, is plus...

Go watch the clip again. There’s nothing jokey or witty or clever about it. It’s a straightforward accusation of racism and callousness, and of course one of the other schmucks there laughs because he’s a nasty liberal hack too who’s thinking the same thing. It’s a laugh of recognition, and maybe a bit of surprise that Chalian would be willing to say that with mics around. So here’s his attempt to make himself employable again: I am profoundly sorry for making an inappropriate and thoughtless joke. I was commenting on the challenge of staging a convention during a hurricane and...

Notorious PBS liberal Gwen Ifill took to Twitter to defend David Chalian, the former Yahoo Washington bureau chief who was fired for claiming that Mitt and Ann Romney are "happy to have a party with black people drowning," claiming that he was unjustly fired. Her defense was markedly over-the-top: "One mistake does not change this. @DavidChalian is God's gift to political journalism. #IStandwithDavid" One wonders if the always liberal Ifill would have said a conservative journalist who had been fired was "God's gift to political journalism." Actually one really doesn't. Hat tip: Clay Waters. Incidentally, Ifill is said to have...

Yahoo News has fired Washington bureau chief David Chalian after he was caught on a hot-mic during an online video broadcast today saying that Mitt Romney and his wife Ann had no problem with African Americans suffering as a result of Hurricane Isaac, a source familiar with the situation tells POLITICO. "They're not concerned at all. They're happy to have a party with black people drowning," Chalian said during the ABC News/Yahoo News webcast, in reference to the fact that the GOP convention in Tampa is taking place as Hurricane Isaac makes landfall on the north Gulf coast. The conservative...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Yahoo News has fired Washington bureau chief David Chalian after he was caught on a hot-mic during an online video broadcast today saying that Mitt Romney and his wife Ann had no problem with African Americans suffering as a result of Hurricane Isaac, a source familiar with the situation tells POLITICO. "They're not concerned at all. They're happy to have a party with black people drowning," Chalian said during the ABC News/Yahoo News webcast, in reference to the fact that the GOP convention in Tampa is taking place as Hurricane Isaac makes landfall on the north Gulf...

From BigGovernment: Here's a look at the black, bitter, bitter, ugly and biased souls of our corrupt media during ABC News' live-feed coverage yesterday. The moment in question occurs in the first ten seconds. Listen closely: (Video at link) From NewsBusters: In ABC Webcast, Yahoo’s David Chalian Says Romneys ‘Happy to Have a Party When Black People Drown’ Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2012/08/29/abc-news-romneys-happy-have-party-when-black-people-drown#ixzz24xLfJTqv

Third time in a week I cant access Yahoo Mail. Anyone else having this issue?

Looks like a 1970s Soviet poster, good grief    Alas, nothing new coming from this bunch...

Okay, Folks, on a recent thread about the demise of NBC News, the following observation was made: Google has gone far left. People are looking to leave Google, but the only real competition in a search engine is Bing, owned by MS. I have seen and made several comments about how I’d like to leave Google, but why hop to MS, of MSNBC?Well, that got me thinking: what alternative search engines are out there?The link I found provides a neat, but HUGE, rollup of various search engines, search sites and alternatives to the Leftist monoliths of the Web. Personally, I...

Some 450,000 Yahoo users' email addresses and passwords have been leaked because of a security breach, the company confirmed Thursday, adding that just a small fraction of the stolen passwords were valid. The company said in a statement that an "old file" from the Yahoo Contributor Network was compromised Wednesday. Among the stolen emails and passwords were many from Yahoo's own email service along with those of other companies. The Yahoo Contributor Network is a content-sharing platform. Yahoo said it is fixing the vulnerability that led to the disclosure, changing the passwords of affected Yahoo users, and notifying other companies...

It is sometimes fascinating how certain purposeful intentions and actions can align themselves to the point of convergence. Case in point. I had come to the personal conclusion that Google has and is becoming much too large, too diffuse, too intrusive and much too much part of the problem of loss of privacy on the internet. As a consequence, I decided to move my internet research activities over to Yahoo. I have used Yahoo in the past – in fact Yahoo was the go to search engine back when I first started using the internet in around 1997. Yahoo, in...

Hedge fund manager Eric Jackson stated on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street that in the next five to eight years Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) may disappear just like Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has ‘disappeared.’ “Yahoo is still making money, it’s still profitable, still has 13,000 employees working for it, but it’s 10 percent of the value that it was at the height of 2000. For all intents and purposes, it’s disappeared.” Jackson does mention that his prediction about Facebook is a shadow of the company’s present self. The chairman of Ironfire Capital says Facebook’s power may erode due to the continued emergence...

Yup! Big, rich Yahoo is indeed censoring The Obama File, and it appears, because of the quickness of the delete, that it is being done under software control (automatically). Now, the question is: Did Yahoo choose to censor The Obama File on its own, or are they responding to orders from Team Obama?

Yahoo is in lock step with the liberal propaganda machine which is trying to artificially create a class warfare battle prior to this year’s election cycle that would make Vladimir Lenin proud. The article in question is currently Yahoo’s lead story and features a photo of Euro Pacific Capital Marketing Director Andrew Schiff. The caption under his picture reads “Andrew Schiff makes enough to put him in the top 1%, but he says it’s not enough.” Underneath the scrolling articles is a group of five thumbnail captions, this caption is even more inflammatory stating “banker’s $350K pay not enough.” To...

For about an hour now, I have not been able to access yahoo or google. Get a "navigation has been canceled" or "page not found" message, and diagnostics indicate that the DNS server is not recognizing the web sites. However, I can get to Bing and Free Republic just fine, among other sites. Just wondering if this is a local problem or a more general one...

The time was that yahoo answered most basic searches sort of well. And then along came google, and for a while they looked like the gold standard. But lately the SEO games and massive quantity of stuff online has made simple queries painful. Anyone have a better set of search engines for the DIY or how to crowd?

Yahoo shares fall after Goldman derides company AP – Wed, Dec 14, 2011. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo shares dropped Wednesday after Goldman Sachs advised investors to sell the struggling Internet company's stock. THE SPARK: Goldman Sachs analyst Heath Terry depicted Yahoo as a perpetually misguided company that will have trouble competing against more innovative rivals that have been forging ahead with compelling products that are winning over consumers and advertisers. Yahoo Inc. has spent much of the past three months evaluating whether it makes sense to sell all or part of the company, but Terry predicted the outcome of...

Every year I check both Yahoo and Google to see if they will acknowledge Pearl Harbor Day. As usual, nothing.

Prediction: Holder will be FINE with Google acquiring Yahoo...no problem since it's part of the fascist bent. Any predictions?

Yahoo!, the premier digital media company, and ABC News today announced they will join forces to launch a strategic online news alliance that will deliver content to more than 100 million U.S. users each month. This new venture blends ABC News' global newsgathering operation and unrivaled lineup of trusted anchors and reporters with Yahoo! News' unmatched audience, depth and breadth of content. Beginning today, GoodMorningAmerica.com, launches on Yahoo! along with three new online-first video series hosted by the award-winning, trusted anchors of ABC News. As announced on "Good Morning America," George Stephanopoulos' interview with President Obama, drawing on questions posed...

Is is just me that's experiencing the problem, or are others being blocked by Websense? I can't use Yahoo e-mail, or Hotmail. A message appears saying that, "Content blocked by your organization" "This Websense category is filtered: General Email" I haven't changed anything on my computers or my email settings. However, this problem occurs on my XP box and not on my Windows 7 machine.

An update to Adobe Reader installed Yahoo Toolbar on my computer. I have Firefox 6.0 It seems to have slowed it down. How do I get rid of it?............

As big shareholders flee AOL and Yahoo's board flounders, consolidation is "definitely" in the air, a source close to Microsoft's portal, MSN, tells us. "Definitely, people are talking about it." This source – who asked to remain anonymous because getting fired sucks – says Yahoo is more attractive to Microsoft than AOL. "People generally expect AOL to come apart one way or another. I don't think that's an interesting asset. It's just been so beaten down." Regarding AOL's prized acquisition, Huffington Post, this source says: "I love Huffingotn Post as a user. As a business I don't." He says its...

Fired former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz could lose $10 million for violating a non-disparagement clause when she raged that the company's board members 'f***ed me over.' Miss Bartz, in an interview with Fortune after her Tuesday firing by phone, also said the board was 'trying to show that they're not the doofuses that they are.' However, according to Fortune, her contract with Yahoo contained a clause barring her from criticizing the internet company. A source told the magazine that Bartz could lose $10 million over her pointed comments. That clause, if violated, could allow Yahoo to cancel a $10 million...

Carol Bartz Exclusive: Yahoo "F---ed Me Over" By Patricia Sellers September 8, 2011: FORTUNE -- Here is what Carol Bartz thinks of the Yahoo (YHOO) board that fired her: "These people f---ed me over," she says, in her first interview since her dismissal from the CEO role late Tuesday. Last evening, barely 24 hours after Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock called Bartz on her cell phone to tell her the news, she called from her Silicon Valley home ("There are reporters at the gate… a lot of them.") to tell Fortune, exclusively, how the ax came down. On Tuesday, Bartz was...

Yahoo has fired its chief executive officer Carol Bartz and named the company’s chief financial officer Tim Morse as interim CEO. “I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s chairman of the board,” Bartz said in an email reportedly sent to Yahoo employees. “It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward."

President Downgrade cut his vacation short to make an appearance at the Hurricane Command Center for a few pictures yesterday. Apparently, not everyone was impressed with this obvious publicity stunt. Here is a sampling of the comments from the Yahoo report:

In a bombshell accusation, the government watchdog group Judicial Watch announced today that the Obama administration used taxpayer money to help orchestrate an internet search engine manipulation campaign specifically promoting Obamacare. Judicial Watch obtained 2,328 pages of records pursuant to a March 23, 2011, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. The FOIA information included correspondence between the Department of Health and Human Services and the Ogilvy Group, the public relations fire hired by the White House to push Obamacare on the American people. Judicial Watch listed the following as major points of interest from the FOIA request (all bullets quoted):...

Yahoo! Mail plans to snoop on your emails. Accepting its updated T&Cs give it the right to read your messages and target relevant advertising. Would you be happy if your emails were analysed in this way? It’s eight in the evening, you’re juggling a glass of wine and a sneaky fag in one hand, while emailing away with the other. You’re venting to your best friend about the latest slings and arrows of outrageous fortune to have befallen your life; secure in the knowledge that nobody’s eavesdropping on your conversation. Well, before you raise your glass in a congratulatory toast...