Who would Jesus prosecute? Justice shifts focus from civil rights to...
The New York Times reports that the Ashcroft/Gonzales Department of “Justice” (my quotes) has significantly shifted the civil rights mission of the nation’s highest prosecutor of federal law. Instead...
View ArticleIdeas have consequences – the 43rd anniversary of the Mississippi murders….
You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea. – Medgar Evers Born in 1952, I grew up in a small town in the South of the 50’s and ’60’s. The state I grew up in, North Carolina, … Continue reading →
View ArticleMartin Luther King, Jr. – our newest Scholar Rogue
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Our newest scholar/rogue is Dr. Martin...
View ArticleE-voting battles, Part 2: Report author responds to my criticism
By Martin Bosworth In response to my criticism of a policy paper decrying paper audit trails for electronic voting, report author Daniel Castro claimed that I wasn’t addressing all the tenets of his...
View ArticleE-voting screwup leads judge to void election results
By Martin Bosworth As an amusing coda to my posts discussing the need for paper audit trails in electronic voting, and the industry’s opposition to same, here’s a look at what happens when you trust...
View ArticleAre Americans smart enough to vote?
I recently offended some people, quite unintentionally, with my modest suggestion that perhaps it wasn’t in the best interests of the nation to hand over so much decision-making power to people who...
View ArticleThe ethics of cloning a caveman
Errrmmm, we can do that? The full genome of the Neanderthal, an ancient human species probably driven to extinction by the first modern humans that entered Europe some 45,000 years ago, is expected to...
View ArticleNota Bene #100: Il Planetario di Figaro
Wow, 100 issues of Nota Bene! Props to Russ for helping me for a while with this nifty little S&R feature. Never mind all that now, let’s get on with this issue. “What splendid buildings our...
View ArticleRe: New Jersey electronic voting
Right now, the East Coast is still recovering from Hurricane Sandy and the destruction she wrought. New Jersey in particular was hard-hit, forcing boards of elections to think quickly: how can people...
View ArticleWhy, oh why, Ohio? Husted again tries to suppress voter turnout
Ohio Republicans have targeted predominately Democratic voters in every way they can think of. They’d probably outlaw other parties entirely if they thought they could get away with it. Are you a...
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