Tag Archives: obama

Reason Magazine – Room for Disagreement on Gay Marriage

Turn­about is so unfair.

Newsweek – Estimates Say Fewer Jobs, Larger Deficits if Republicans Were in Charge

Newsweek reports on the idea that if only Repub­li­cans were in charge would things be better.

Rolling Stone Politics – BP’s Next Disaster

BP next plans to start a drilling project in Alaska that is out­side of nor­mal engi­neer­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties, any­body hear alarm bells?

NYTimes.com – On Border Violence, Truth Pales Compared to Ideas

Vio­lent crime rates have fallen while advo­cates for more strin­gent action on ille­gal immi­gra­tion claim crime is on the increase.

U.S. Declassifies Part of Secret Cybersecurity Plan – Wired.com

The Obama admin­is­tra­tion has declas­si­fied parts of the national cyber­se­cu­rity plan.

Science and Politics, Like Oil and Water

One of my per­sonal biggest pet peeves with regards to the cur­rent polit­i­cal sys­tem in Amer­ica, and for that mat­ter a large and vast num­ber of soci­ety is how few peo­ple actu­ally use evi­dence to back up their posi­tion. Rather than pre­sent­ing facts we are pre­sented with ad homein attacks, per­sonal sto­ries and told what

Keep Lowering the Bar: On Everything

Want to become a suc­cess­ful can­di­date, busi­ness, tool, what­ever — then keep low­er­ing the bar towards peo­ple inter­act­ing with you. Com­pa­nies that raise the bar towards inter­ac­tion with the busi­ness and the peo­ple involved in the busi­ness will even­tu­ally fail. No mat­ter how large you are, the peo­ple want and enjoy easy access. Even if