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Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
It’s Too Late for Ken Starr to Regret Monica-gate
Ken Starr, the new president of Baylor University, will always and forever be best known as the dogged prosecutor of President Bill Clinton. His new job brings him back into the spotlight for the moment where the old questions continue to haunt him. Asked if he regretted the work he did as the independent counsel…
Things We Dare Not Do (and What That Says About Society)
Despite being married, 23-year-old Alyssa Branton was stalked for months by a much older man who recently shot her dead outside her office building after she refused his advances. Despite providing more than 70 pages of documentation detailing Roger Troyās bizarre and unwanted behavior, Branton was denied the restraining order that might have saved her…
The FBI’s New Big Brother Plan
Privacy? Forget it now that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is at it again. CNET reports that the FBI is working overtime to ensure that Internet service providers (ISPs) will be forced to retain records of their customersā use of the āNet for years after the fact and to make those records available to government…
The Real State of the Union: Beyond Bankrupt
All the twitter about President Obamaās sneak attack on the Supreme Court and Justice Alitoās silent rejection of it masked the real news of the day: Our nation is beyond bankrupt and Democrats are committed to making matters worse by increasing the debt ceiling another 15% to $14T. For those who have trouble visualizing the…
Football as a Metaphor Starring the N.Y. Jets
The irony of this weekās AFC championship game is not lost on any football fan: Had the Indianapolis Colts had the moral fiber to give a decent effort in week 15 of the NFL season, the New York Jets would be watching this weekās big game at home instead of playing in it against the…
Obama’s biggest failure in 1st…
Obama’s biggest failure in 1st year is his rejection of reality. Americans don’t want to be told how it’s gonna be. We do the telling here.
Words of Wisdom: Environmentalist Grandstanding
Jason Avark writes: The current state of environmentalism seems a form of moral preening ā a very self-promotional way for āgreenā adherents to publicly display their moral superiority and, more the to point, gain political and social power by doing so. By characterizing themselves as āself-lessā, environmentalists gain for themselves a wide-ranging exemption from criticism…
The Key Difference in the U.S. Response in New Orleans and Haiti
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was a disaster area. Despite the fact that the dangers of a large hurricane scenario were well-known to everyone from inhabitants to government officials, nothing seemed to go right in the response to the severe flooding that, as predicted, followed landfall. Now residents of Haiti are hurting…
Cass Sunstein, Obama Confidant, Supreme Court Possibility, Repressionist
I frequently donāt see eye-to-eye with Glenn Greenwald, but his latest post about Cass Sunstein, a close confidant of President Obama and current head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is a must-read given the talk that Sunstein could become a Supreme Court nominee should another opening present itself to the president. Glenn…