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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Republicans have cost America $1.3 trillion, not $24 billion

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Standard and Poor's rating agency estimates that the government shutdown cost the US--the country, not the government--$24 billion. This...

Jikininki--a ghost story from Japan

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Note: This Japanese ghost story was translated by the American author, Lafcadio Hearn over 100 years ago. Holly recommends it as a classic H...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Online security: We must secure the internet for personal use

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Ezra Klein, of the Washington Post's Wonk Blog, declared on Morning Joe that the rollout of Obama Care is a disaster. Problems were to b...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Gawker at the Jefferson Memorial

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(Full Disclosure: Holly is my wife) Holly Masri's "Gawker at the Jefferson Memorial" is on display at the Art League gall...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Good Guy David Koch, Meet Dark Money David Koch

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On Friday, [October 4,] the David H. Koch Childcare Center will be dedicated, in a celebration that highlights a major and ongoing...
Monday, October 7, 2013

NSA leaks: TOR and what to do about it

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The National Security Agency (NSA) has been trying to break an encryption system called The Onion Ring (TOR). This information was contained...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Beyond government by crisis: Fixing the leaks

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The United States has a written Constitution that describes how the government works. We also have rules, not included in the Constitution, ...