9 Articles

Thursday, September 6, 2007
Election Law Mandates Public Inspection of Ballots and Ballot Boxes in Most States
(5 comments) Paper ballots marked with a standard #2 pencil by voters and run through an optical scanner is a simple and transparent process that every citizen can observe and certify.

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
State Governors Worry about Alaska Oil Field Shutdown
During the weekend's summer meeting of the National Governors Association the governors worried about economic damage from the Alaska oil field shutdown and complained about years of energy policy neglect by our U.S. Congress. It's too bad Missouri's Governor Matt Blunt, a very conservative Republican, did talk up a new renewable oil production technology that is already pumping out oil in his own back yard!

Monday, August 7, 2006
Large Alaska Oil Field Shut Down Sunday
Oil and gas prices going up again on yet another supply anxiety. Eight percent of U.S. oil production was cut Sunday and will remain offline for months.

Friday, August 4, 2006
The Bush Administration's Energy Policy
The Bush Administration's failed energy policy and failed occupation of Iraq has taken us in the wrong direction, leading to record gas prices that exceed $3 a gallon, record crude oil prices of more than $75 a barrel, record oil company profits, and record dependence on foreign oil.

Thursday, June 29, 2006
Vast New Oil Reserve Found in the U.S.
(2 comments) By applying the talent and technology of America, this country can dramatically improve our environment, move beyond a petroleum-based economy and make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past - President Bush, 2006 State of the Union

Sunday, June 4, 2006
RFK Jr.’s "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" - So Now What?
RFK Jr.’s investigative report in Rolling Stone, "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" is extraordinarily thorough and well written - So Now What?

Thursday, June 1, 2006
Swift Boat Veterans Reject Lessons of Vietnam
(1 comments) Those Who Deny The Lessons Of History Are Destined To Witness History Repeated. Senator Kerry: You, more than anyone else, have the moral authority to remind the nation that what is past is prologue unless we take history’s lessons to heart. You should be standing side by side with, or maybe even a step ahead of, Representative Murtha.

Thursday, May 25, 2006
H1-B Visa Foreign IT Workers and the Immigration Bill
(2 comments) Why would parents encourage their children to take extra math and science in high school and then risk taking massive loans to send them to college for a technical degree when it looks like the corporate and government systems are rigged against them getting a technology job upon graduation? Where is the ROI in that?

Saturday, May 13, 2006
Diebold's AccuVote-TS Voting Machine Security
(1 comments) Focusing on the voting machine “chain-of-custody” issue may be like worrying someone will break down your relatively secure back door to rob your house while ignoring the fact that your house has no front door at all and is open to the world.