An interesting idea in the Washington Examiner: Read the bills? How about reading the Constitution?. “A better idea can be found in a resolution recently introduced by Sen. Jim Bunning, R-KY, requiring all new legislation to be posted online for 72 hours before consideration. That could put the distributed intelligence of the web to work, [...]
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Don’t Underestimate Us
Nice video: In support of Tax Day Tea Party.
Nichols’ Survey is Broken
My state delegate, Del. Paul Nichols, is running a survey to see what his constituents think about a range of issues. It’s too bad his web site’s survey is broken. Ridiculous.
Don’t Talk to the Police
Don’t talk to the Police is an interesting lecture from Professor James Duane of the Regent University School of Law about why you should never talk to the police. The talk won’t help you, but could hurt you. Logically, it makes sense. He doesn’t say what you should do when you get pulled over while [...]
700 Billion Wasn’t The End
Did you think the first round of $700 Billion handouts was bad? What’s going to happen when the banks start having problems because of their ridiculous credit card practives? Read The Worst Is Yet To Come: Anonymous Banker Weighs In On The Coming Credit Card Debacle.
Junk Mail Received During the 2008 Elections
During the 2008 election cycle, which included for me the US Senate (Warner vs. Gilmore), US House of representatives (Connolly vs. Fimian) and President (Obama vs. McCain), I collected all the political junk mail that was sent to my home. I’ve finally gone through it all (32 pieces of mail) to present this summary: Republican [...]
An excellent look at the electoral maps of 2008
Check out the Maps of the 2008 US presidential election results that have been generated giving each county, state, weight based on their populations.
Where’s Your Press?
“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” – A. J. Liebling So you should go setup your own blog now.
Negative Political Ads
Over the past month I’ve been getting more and more frustrated with both the Republicans and the Democrats. Their ads are very negative. They’re telling me why I shouldn’t vote for the other. Keep it up, folks, and I won’t vote for either one of you, and get even more frustrated with whoever does win. [...]
Technology Ticketing
Great article at MSNBC: Red light cameras too good for their own good?
