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Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Since political hacks are inclined to take credit for the sun coming up every day, I will be the first to declare victory in my ongoing campaign against the USDA Graduate School.  An alert reader (holy crap! I have readers?) points me to this little passage in HR 6124 which became law in June.
`(B) TERMINATION [...]

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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

(cross-posted at Red State and The Next Right)
The Politico today has a column penned by David All, a young GOP internet consultant, and Saul Anuzis, Chairman of the Michigan GOP. The column looks at the premise that the GOP is behind its Democratic counterparts online, and suggests one possible reason why [...]

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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

If you follow me on Twitter, I apologize for exposing you to this again, but I find the story of Virginia’s latest hate crime (or is it) fascinating.
 Authorities in Spotsylvania County, Va., said a woman who struck people with her car in a parking lot made a Nazi symbol and yelled “white power.” …
The victims, [...]

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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Between work, travel, the holidays, the caucuses and primaries, and another project I’ve been trying to launch, I just haven’t had a lot of time to write, but I wanted to share a new endeavor I’ve undertaken.  NCTA (the day job) has launched a new telecom policy blog at CableTechTalk.com.
CableTechTalk will give the industry a [...]

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Monday, October 22nd, 2007

So I’m trying to wrap my hands around something…  We, as a people, have some really screwy barometer of what’s important.  We are developing systems to track my dog with a GPS locator.
Also, you have no doubt heard in the news about special micro chips that can be embedded directly in an animal’s skin that can [...]

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