I personally abstained in the Cox vs Johnson race, as per my previous post, and voted Lib/Green in the Presidential Senatorial races, as per my previous post. Turns out that my predictions about the complete irrelevance of my vote in those races were confirmed. Each of the three races seems likely to end with a [...]
The Washington Post recently put out a piece about the declining health of Cheney. This raises a question that I’ve always wondered about. Maybe someone knows the answer:
What happens when a lame duck president or veep kicks the bucket? In those cases where the Presidency is staying in the party or, even simpler, going straight [...]
Johnson’s stats from the current Congress:
Number of sponsored bills: 8
Number of co-sponsored bills 161
Number of sponsored bills passed: 0
Number of co-sponsored bills passed: 9
Our remarkably unsuccessful four-term Congressman in the fifteenth Congressional District in Illinois seems shockingly… well, unsuccessful this time around. If this fellow was a lawyer in any of our [...]
Being registered in Illinois where Obama won the Senate race by a 30-point margin (and lost in my home county by the same), there seems to be next to zero chance that the state will vote Republican for the first time since Reagan. As such, I’d be throwing my vote away if I vote for [...]
Salon.com is reporting on dozens of protestors having their doors broken down and homes raided by assault-weapon equipped SWAT teams in the leadup to the RNC. Two or three times a week my drive to work in Nepal is marked by dozens of policemen armed with bamboo poles, assigned to perform an old-fashioned sort of [...]
http://badbarr2008.com/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080606/0136491330.shtml
The libs aren’t even running a libertarian (small L) this year? So which of these three folk who want to strip away my fair use rights am I supposed to vote for again? Bad year for IP counter-reform. Bad year for privacy rights. Bad year for consumer rights. Bad year for folk who’d like [...]
Just a quick note – I just saw the much anticipated Hillary Clinton speech, and I must say, that was the most unprofessional, poorly written mess of a speech I’ve seen in a long time. Everyone’s hero Mike Gravel could have done better.
Did anyone else notice how it turned from a concession speech to a self-serving [...]
Joe Biden’s pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record
I’ll be shocked if this news breaks outside of technical circles, but at least there’s some vibrant discussion on CNet, /., et al about this man’s frequent attempts to do substantial damage to our basic fundamental human right to privacy. Any chance at all that the Republicans might do [...]
Obama’s choice of veep is far from comforting. An active opponent of our basic fair use priveleges, Senator Joe Biden introduced and actively promoted legislation that would have criminalized far more than the already-rather-wretched Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1996. The “bill would [have? - is it dead?] make it a federal felony to try [...]
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