From the Associated Press (SF Gate):

In a major expansion, Yahoo Inc. said Monday that its online search engine index now spans more than 20 billion Web documents and images, nearly double the material scanned by rival Google Inc.
Yahoo’s expansion doesn’t necessarily mean it produces more useful results than Google, which has long been considered the […]

Extremely funny Canadian blogger “Angry in the Great White North” has added Independent Sources to his blogroll … and at least until he realizes his mistake, has us listed above Captain’s Quarters, Michelle Malkin, and Instapundit. Thanks, Angry!
“Angry in T.O.” has a target-rich environment much like ours in Southern California. Canada’s rich vein of political […]

An open letter to Richard M. Scrushy from Independent Sources:
July 10th, 2005
Dear Mr. Scrushy:
As part of our affirmative action program, Independent Sources is pleased to make you this offer of employment. We think you bring an important element of racial diversity to the blog’s staff not to mention what you could do to our “reported” […]

Microsoft announced that it will add RSS feeds to the version of Internet Explorer that ships with its next-generation operating system at the end of next year.
That means they’ll only be twenty months or so behind Firefox and Apple’s Safari. Those browsers also added tabbed browsing long ago … something Microsoft is getting around to […]

Insider’s post about the manslaughter conviction of former KKK’r Edgar Ray Killen was highlighted in Slate’s “Today’s Blogs” column.
This is two weeks to the day after a link in Slate’s Kausfiles brought us national acclaim … or at least a lot of traffic. Interestingly, we got not one extra click on our ads from […]

This Writer’s Search for a Personal Moniker
Anyone who isn’t left-of-center knows that it can be hard to describe one’s political views to new acquaintances without risking the impression that you are some sort of right wing religious nut who stores arms caches in your bomb shelter. To the wrong listener, the word “conservative” can conjure up images […]

In our recent moment of glory (two days, actually) of traffic sent by a link from KausFiles to this story about the LA Times blowing its Kerry coverage this week, we saw the names of many interesting organizations in the list of visitors (don’t worry, all we see is your ISP — which at work […]

With one little word in Kausfiles, Independent Sources has had its best day ever. When Mickey Kaus posted this:
4:25 P.M.
Why Southern California Suffers: Could the LAT really have been granted coveted access to Kerry’s military records and not reported the part about his grades? Why, yes! … Sen. Stennis had nothin’ on Times reporter Stephen […]

Our marketing research budget couldn’t buy a cup of coffee back when it was called ‘joe’ instead of some pseudo-Italian word created by marketing types in Seattle. But we do know some cool things about our audience — such as that Independent Sources is read at:

The U.S. House of Representatives
The Los Angeles Times
The New York […]

Patrick Ruffini, webmaster of the Bush-Cheney ‘04 campaign, has a cool new site — 2008 Presidential Wire — that vacuums up references to potential 2008 Presidential candidates in the MSM and blogosphere and indexes and sorts them in a variety of ways.
For instance, the overall most-referred to candidates are Rice, Frist, Romney, and Gingrich for […]

Dear Readers:
We’ve made well over a 100 posts over the past few months. We have covered topics as diverse as Jim Lampley’s loopy politics to how the French are like watching Sea Monkeys. We’ve savaged Warren Beatty and asked what’s wrong with putting criminals in prison? But what do people want? Here’s the last 13 […]

When you walk by someone’s cubicle and see a Google or Yahoo search window open, what do you think they looking for? You might be surprised. Scanning at a somewhat random sampling of searches performed by folks who landed at Independent Sources in the past day, hoaxes and midgets are big topics of interest:
midget hoax
conservative […]

We have fixed the problem that prevented readers using Internet Explorer from seeing our “sidebar,” the area to the right of this copy that contains our archives, recent posts, and, most important, our ads. So if any of you are looking to meet Republican singles — an ad which Google has been serving up to […]