Customs can seize your computer in New York
In the latest insult to the Fourth Amendment, a Brooklyn judge has upheld the right to search and seize laptop computers at the border.http://www.nytimes.com/...The lawsuit was filed in 2010 by Pascal...
View ArticleIf the EU Parliament wants to hear from Snowden, they should offer him asylum
From today's New York Times:"E.U. Panel Invites Snowden to Testify on Privacy Breaches"http://www.nytimes.com/...
View ArticleHow good is your Ombudsman in Washington?
Someone should rate Senators and Representatives on the quality of their constituent service. When someone writes a Representative for help with a government agency, he or she should get a poll a few...
View ArticleIs this what it's like in Ohio every election?
We have a number of hotly contested primary races going on in Texas, and my phone won't stop ringing. As a politics junkie, I suppose I ought to appreciate it, but I hate the noise -- especially the...
View ArticleDavid Brooks tries to get inside Vladimir Putin’s mind
In his column today, David Brooks tries to get inside Vladimir Putin’s mind.http://www.nytimes.com/...Putin was personally involved in getting [Ivan] Ilyin’s remains re-buried back in Russian soil. In...
View ArticleFactCheck.org calls out the Koch brothers
For a long time their email seemed to favor the GOP. But yesterday they unloaded on the Koch brothers. FactCheck.org calls itself A Project of the Annenberg Public Policy...
View ArticleThe Veteran's Administration Can't Even Tolerate a Compliment, Much Less...
When someone from housekeeping at a VA hospital did a good job promptly, we asked if we should put in a good word to his boss.He said, "Please don't."
View ArticleWe need to export the union movement
Today at Netroots Nation, Senator Debbie Stabenow said we need to quit exporting jobs and go back to exporting goods. I'll suggest we should also export the union movement.
View Article34 million vehicles recalled for airbag replacement. What could go wrong?
It is been decided that the airbags made by Takata in almost 34,000,000 United States vehicles are defective. http://www.cbsnews.com/... That means those vehicles will be recalled to have their...
View ArticleMy internet service problems with Time Warner
Time Warner was going to leave me without internet service from yesterday (Thursday) until next Monday until I said by then I could have service from a competitor in place. Then the guy on the phone...
View ArticleTo err is human, but you need a computer if you're going for FUBAR
Don't get sick Sunday night. I just got an email from one of the big hospital chains in town that starts out System Outage Notification On November 1 the electronic data...
View ArticleFactCheck.Org has quit trying for false balance
If I remember correctly, in previous election cycles FactCheck.Org seemed to be trying to expose lies and half-truths by Democrats as often as those by Republicans. I remember being irritated that...
View Article"Contraception mandate challenge ends with a whimper" -- headline for a...
A victory last Tuesday seems to have gone by under the radar. I was thumbing through today’s Sunday San Antonio Express-News, and I must not have felt busy because I opened the “Faith” section. I...
View ArticleHow the GOP would end up putting everyone on Medicare
I’m not sure if the person who wrote this is liberal or conservative, but she/he is perceptive.thehealthcareblog.com/…It’s titled Looking Back From 2019: Why the Republicans Nationalized Healthcare and...
View ArticleGender isn't always clear-cut
Gender isn’t always as clear-cut as North Carolina lawmakers seem to thinkThe emphasis on the gender recorded on someone’s birth certificate is misplaced in North Carolina’s transgender discrimination...
View ArticleSo stupid it hurts
I get emails from Fact Check. Today this item came:www.factcheck.org/…Louisiana Republican Rep. Ralph Abraham falsely claimed there are “thousands of studies” that refute the Environmental Protection...
View ArticleLet's change how we vote
Some Ideas on Changes to How We Conduct ElectionsSince I was young I remember people, especially liberals, talking about voting for "The Lesser of Two Evils". Perhaps we should let people vote against...
View ArticleNow the NY Times says Hillary’s being treated for pneumonia.
Now the NY Times says Hillary’s being treated for pneumonia. www.nytimes.com/...®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-newsThe story uses the word “pneumonia” once in the text and once in the headline. But it’s...
View ArticleObama Falsely Claims He ‘Can’t Pardon’ Snowden Unless he Returns to the US to...
I need to pay more attention to Dave Lindorff, who writes at “This Can’t Be Happening!” Here are excerpts from an article there today, which has almost the same title I used above:On a final trip to...
View ArticleWhere has Trump's Bible hand been?
Trump plans to take the oath of office using two bibles, one of them the one Lincoln used, which was re-used by...
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