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Gripe about the Boston Election Department

September 16, 2008 By tedf

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: election, polls, secret-ballot

Stop the Presses! (Literally)

August 11, 2008 By tedf

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: charlie-card, first-amendment, hackers, mbta, mit, security

Fannie and Freddie

July 14, 2008 By tedf

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bailout, credit-crisis, fannie-mae, freddie-mac, mortgage, treasury

The bill of rights is a Good Thing

June 26, 2008 By tedf

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bill-of-rights, great-britain, gun-control, heller

The Non-Denial Denial

May 20, 2008 By tedf

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bush, iran, preemption, war

Scary Stuff

May 20, 2008 By tedf

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bush, bush-doctrine, foreign-policy, iran, preemptive-war

The Kadish Affair: Here We Go Again

April 22, 2008 By tedf

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: espionage, israel, kadish, pollard

Whiny Whiners who Whine

April 9, 2008 By tedf

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: small-business, tax-gap

Impeach John Yoo!

April 2, 2008 By tedf

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: impeachment, torture, yoo

A Modest Proposal

March 31, 2008 By tedf

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cds, credit, derivatives, paulson, swaps, treasury

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