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Politics
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Politics
FISA
This is disappointing. The second amendment contains retroactive immunity for those dirty telcos and their warrant-free wiretaps
Candidate
FISA amendment
(8/3/07)
FISA amendment II
(2/12/08)John McCain
Yes
YesThe Hillary
No
AbsentBarack Obama
No
AbsentLooks like special interests and irrational fear win again.
“This, I believe, is the right way to go for the security of the nation,” said Senator John D. Rockefeller, the West Virginia Democrat […] -
Politics
What will we choose?
Seven years later, on July 21 1969, America reached the moon. In less than a decade, and with less computing power than I have on my desk right now, NASA planned and built the most intricate human space flight system ever seen. The Saturn V, the workhorse of the Apollo program, was the most powerful […]
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Politics
Not so apolitical
I promised myself this blog would be largely apolitical. That said, I couldn’t help but post this video.
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The economist summed it up perfectly.
… At his best he may be the finest public speaker of his generation: a man who echoes John Kennedy and Martin Luther King but nevertheless speaks in a voice that is all […]
