Category: politics

Bruce Schneier links to another chilling story of security gone too far.

“Not Yours to Give, by Davy Crockett” This is a very, very interesting and inspiring story.

“You know, you would think that a large group of people who have all read Guns, Germs and Steel, and taken its message that “geography matters” to heart, would pay just a leetle bit of attention to it when they start chastising America for not being more like Europe.”

If poor people did just four things, the poverty rate would be a fraction of what it currently is.

With a war in Iraq and a huge hurricane recovery project underway here at home, why are we pushing through hugely over-inflated budgets, instead of making cutbacks?