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I try to never comment on a Youtube video unless its a positive comment for a creator. There's literally no point in angrily replying to some random keyboard warrior about US economics on Youtube. Same with FOX News comments, and I guess really all social media. Most o...
When the Constitution was written a well trained militiaman could load and fire his musket 2 or 3 times per minute. Obviously unsuitable for personal protection beyond a single shot before an attacker could close with a knife, its main use was in a battle line where many other similarly armed men w...
A dangerous and incorrect statement I've heard from some pundits lately is that people that are in the country illegally have no rights under the Constitution. This is not true, and in fact has been litigated by the Supreme Court many times over the last 130 years.
There was another time when the...
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There are many reasons so many folks who work the web are opposed to these bills. Beyond the fears of enshrining government sponsored censorship (ala China) which could easily kill your access to non-American news media (especially important in a crisis) and stifling innovation (by creating a preca...
Wired has as story running about AT&T's decision to institute a bandwidth cap for its broadband customers and what that might mean for you even if you don't use AT&T. The move follows a similar action by Comcast which placed a 250GB cap on downloads (with a $10 per 50GB over) ostensibly designed...
Bill Clinton on the Daily Show discussing how he would approach the problems in the economy. I hope the Dems are listening because everything he said makes sense. I definitely had a "Miss Me Yet?" moment watching this.
- Focus on where the jobs are: small business, manufacturing, and clean en...
I was discussing the perceived "problem with pensions" the other day with someone at work and realized I had to do a little more research to understand the topic. I found this post by John Maudlin explains the situation pretty well. (see the "problem with pensions" paragraph which starts a bit do...
Oh, the scams and lawbreaking is positively endemic. Now there's reason to believe that defense and security contractors colluded to use tax payer money to create fake documents and plant evidence to make political attacks on union leaders and Democrats!? And the only reason we even know about i...
update 2024 - this guy has continued to con folks since I posted this in 2011 including debunked claims that he could prove the CIA was conspiring against Sherrif Joe Arpaio (even Arpaio later described Montgomery's invesigation as "junk"), illegal surveillance of Trump and others by the feds, and...
The protests in Wisconsin have been on the front page daily as the new Republican governor there backs legislation that would remove collective bargaining rights from public sector employees in that state. With so many private sector folks out of work or without a pay rise in years there seems to b...
A couple months back we heard 2012 presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee call for whoever leaked those diplomatic cables to Wiki Leaks to be executed. The cables were an embarrassment to many authoritarian leaders around the globe that the US is friendly with, but despite the negative press run main...
When I canceled cable TV earlier this year everyone told me that the kids would stage a revolt. Happily, that didn't happen, and in fact the opposite did. The house is generally quieter and calmer without the background din from a TV set left on at all hours even when there was no-one in the roo...
Lets not even discuss the fact that as a strip artist, Gary Trudeau the celebrated author of Doonesbury for 40 years, is facing the end of that career as print media dries up utterly and no one seems to have time for comics anymore with all the new media available. I just liked his response to Sla...
When you run an organization that is supposed to be impartial, and in fact by law HAS TO BE impartial (because it takes public money) you cannot allow employees to act (even on their own time) in a way that undermines that perception of impartiality. As Brian Stelter put it,
Like many other...
Why don't we just abolish the income tax all together since the only people who are paying it are poor working slobs anyway. As this Bloomberg article from May details, major corporations are using loopholes in the tax laws to avoid paying what conservatives like to call the "high US tax rate" (a...
I don't comment on FOXNews very often, but this one has been "awaiting moderation" for most of the day already and it looks like "comments are closed" on it now - so I might as well post it here for the benefit of those few who may stumble upon it. The topic of conversation at lunch today revolved...
This article sums it all up pretty well. Sarah's been touring the lower 48 railing against the evil socialist agenda for a while now, meanwhile she's the direct beneficiary of the biggest socialist state in our union! Thats right, Alaska has implemented a working model of socialism. The people o...
Soon after the 1993 bombing of the trade center, and for years after its subsequent total destruction in 2001 the issue of illegal immigration by members of Islamic militant groups was a frequent topic in the news. It became obvious that there were "sleeper cells" of anti-American activists who wer...
I think its an amazing coincidence that both of the candidates for president in the last election had serious questions raised about their American citizenship. To be president, the Constitution requires that a candidate be a "natural born citizen", but doesn't strictly define what it means to be...
The health care bill makes it compulsory for all Americans to buy private insurance in the free market which in and of itself is an incredible irony. What's so free about a market where you are forced to buy something? There are many who don't think the solution that passed is Constitutional becau...
I've been poking around a bit on Prison Planet lately, thats a website run by Alex Jones, a radio talk show host who has been described as a "paleoconservative" whatever thats supposed to mean. Paleo means old, so I assume it's being used to create a distance from the "neocons" (meaning New C...
Great article in the NY Times magazine today examining the question of Christianity in education as the Texas State Board of Education weighs various petitions for modifying the curriculum. On the one hand arguments are made that the 'separation' clause has been misused to totally remove any discu...
The Times Online (UK) mentions a series of articles the print version is running with excerpts from "Game Change" a gossipy book out today by John Heilemann (New York Magazine) and Mark Halperin (Time) about the characters who made up the 2008 presidential campaign. While some tabloids are repo...
The Act is supposed to prohibit most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-...
Hans Rosling, a physician and professor of global health from Sweden recently gave a talk at the US State Dept. entitled Let My Dataset change your midset illustrated by the free software he and his son developed called Gapminder. He explains how the data (which he thanks the US for compiling...
The big talk in the news over the last few days has been Obama's planned talk with schoolchildren. FOX's new Nazi propagandist Glen Beck called the speech "indoctrination" and warned Americans to "Stand guard... Your republic is under attack." But beyond the obvious divisiveness of statements li...
I've been hearing a lot of rants lately about "Obama's Health Care Plan" (perhaps folks should do a little reading on how legislation gets written in the US since Obama hasn't written any of the several plans being discussed) and while the topic is vast and I have no time to delve into it in detail...
I watched the entire VP "debate" and was fuming through most it. A debate is supposed to be an argument between two (or preferably more!) people where their interactions are formally structured. At its most basic, to win a debate, a participant should at least answer the questions directly...
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The Bush administration has more reasons to rail against the New York Times (unfairly, I believe) because they are reporting about a recent independent study that the administration would rathar have us not hear about. The study, coined the Nation's Report Card commissioned by the Bush admini...
