"He who controls the agenda controls the outcome"...tell that to the Clintons.
Here's a question that appeared on the midterm exam from my graduate Policy Fundamentals class: There’s an old saying: “He who controls the agenda controls the outcome.” To what extent does this seem...
View ArticleMy message to IN Gov. Mike Pence
I just sent this in via the Indiana Governor's Office's web site: Dear Governor Pence - I just read about the needle sharing program in your state [here].As a man who was baptized Christian and...
View ArticleThoughts about raising the minimum wage
Before we go calling for minimum wage increases, shouldn't we think about this a little harder?
View ArticleAbout Ahmed's clock
As this article points out, what Ahmed Mohamed actually did was take the components out of a mid-'80s Radio Shack digital clock and repackage them, still interconnected, into a pencil case.
View ArticleGwinnett County, GA needs new commissioners starting next year
This is a call for individuals to oppose or help oppose the Commissioners in Gwinnett County, Georgia in the 2016 and 2018 elections. The current five Commissioners, all Republicans and all but one of...
View ArticleKos' Koronation Kaper, or How Queen Clinton II Was Abetted By DailyKos
[Note: this diary — err, blog entry — is adapted from my own comment to another entry]Kossack (soon to be ex-Kossack, if you read his entry) Lurker4evah said this, paraphrasing what Hillary Clinton is...
View ArticleHouston PD, is it SOP to run down a burglary suspect with an SUV?
Today I saw that CBS News ran this story in which on June 28 Houston police tracked down a burglary suspect in an open grassy area and supposedly an officer jumped from a police helicopter for the...
View ArticleHouse Dems, remember who you're booing.
One of many news stories re the aforementioned booing here.How many of the booers would have had the stones to walk in to Liberty University — a place that has little love for Democrats — and give this...
View ArticleYou Can Wind Up Paying EBay to Get Rid of Your Stuff
After my first layoff in 1999, I signed up with eBay and helped get my family and me through a very scary time by unloading quite a few valuable items. I’ve been active ever since, either to just...
View ArticleContemplations on a national emergency, Part 1: constitutional insufficiency
NOTE: I’m posting a short series of diaries, starting with this one, in which I lay out my thoughts about dealing with the Trump administration in the here and now and in the immediate future. I am...
View ArticleThe Clearest Indication Yet of a Client State
I have been wary of this ever since before the election but I think we have here the first clear indication that the United States is now — not “risks becoming,” “may become,” or even “is becoming” — a...
View ArticlePR: Not sure if I'll be the first to call it this, but is it time someone does?
I am finding it necessary to ask if it is time to begin calling this an attempted mass murder. www.wsj.com/...
View ArticleAbout the post-fossil transition in electricity production
[NOTE: The author is an energy technology and policy researcher with degrees in engineering and public policy who has worked in the Information Technology field in private- and public-sector,...
View ArticleA suggestion to all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates
Once the Democratic field for the 2020 primaries is set, there is something that I would like to see all of the candidates do as a unified front: release a statement of principles and intent that all...
View ArticleAbout Ahmed's clock
As this article points out, what Ahmed Mohamed actually did was take the components out of a mid-'80s Radio Shack digital clock and repackage them, still interconnected, into a pencil case.
View ArticleGwinnett County, GA needs new commissioners starting next year
This is a call for individuals to oppose or help oppose the Commissioners in Gwinnett County, Georgia in the 2016 and 2018 elections. The current five Commissioners, all Republicans and all but one of...
View ArticleKos' Koronation Kaper, or How Queen Clinton II Was Abetted By DailyKos
[Note: this diary — err, blog entry — is adapted from my own comment to another entry]Kossack (soon to be ex-Kossack, if you read his entry) Lurker4evah said this, paraphrasing what Hillary Clinton is...
View ArticleHouston PD, is it SOP to run down a burglary suspect with an SUV?
Today I saw that CBS News ran this story in which on June 28 Houston police tracked down a burglary suspect in an open grassy area and supposedly an officer jumped from a police helicopter for the...
View ArticleHouse Dems, remember who you're booing.
One of many news stories re the aforementioned booing here.How many of the booers would have had the stones to walk in to Liberty University — a place that has little love for Democrats — and give this...
View ArticleYou Can Wind Up Paying EBay to Get Rid of Your Stuff
After my first layoff in 1999, I signed up with eBay and helped get my family and me through a very scary time by unloading quite a few valuable items. I’ve been active ever since, either to just...
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