Memo for the poll workers in Ward 20, Precinct 8, where I voted today: 1. It's not really okay to hover around the voter while he's voting. He will ask for your help if he wants it, but mostly, he'd like to vote in private. 2. The "security … [Read more...]
Stop the Presses! (Literally)
On Friday, the MBTA sued MIT and three MIT students, claiming that the students planned to present a paper at the DEFCON hacker's conference explaining how to circumvent the security on the T's Charlie Cards and thus create counterfeit … [Read more...]
Fannie and Freddie
The winners, it seems to me, are: (1) The bondholders, including the foreign governments and investors who own $1.4 trillion in U.S. mortgage debt. I feel like a sucker for investing in treasury bonds rather than Fannie and Freddie bonds. I … [Read more...]
The bill of rights is a Good Thing
As we wait, maybe with a little trepidation, for the ruling in the Heller case, the Supreme Court's first look in recent decades at the Second Amendment, it's worth remembering why our sometimes pesky Bill of Rights, with its protections … [Read more...]
The Non-Denial Denial
Earlier I posted on a report in the Jerusalem Post suggesting that the President and Vice President were in favor of an attack on Iran before the end of the Bush Administration. As I noted in the update, the White House has "denied" the … [Read more...]
Scary Stuff
Let's assume that Iran is indeed conducting a covert nuclear weapons program, and that Iran was behind Hezbollah's recent fighting against the Lebanese government. 1. Do these facts make an attack legal? I'm not an expert in the law of war, … [Read more...]
The Kadish Affair: Here We Go Again
Here is what we know about Ben-Ami Kadish, today accused of espionage for the government of Israel: 1.According to the criminal complaint, he worked as a mechanical engineer at the Army's Armament Research, Development, and Engineering … [Read more...]
Whiny Whiners who Whine
The New York Times reports that small business owners are up in arms about the Bush Administration's proposals to attempt to close the tax gap, which according to the IRS has three components, nonfiling, underreporting, and underpayment, … [Read more...]
Impeach John Yoo!
The text of the outrageous and infamous March 2003 torture memo drafted by John Yoo, then Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, are now available here (part 1) and here (part 2). This, you may recall, is the … [Read more...]
A Modest Proposal
I have been reading the Department of the Treasury's Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure. Much of it is sensible, and the focus on rationalizing the current hodgepodge of regulation and granting the Fed increased … [Read more...]
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