Thornton accomplishes several things in this article. His primary purpose is to illustrate the genius of our system of government. Secondarily, he shows the idiocy of the MSM, specifically, CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin. Baldwin suggested, in somewhat less than eloquent prose, that the Republican's approach to controlling the house was: “Certainly not the way the Founding Fathers maybe drew this thing up.” Thornton shows that, like or not, this is precisely how the house is supposed to function.   Read the rest of this entry »

Boston – National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw. Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.   Read the rest of this entry »

Black Man Kills White Man Because He Was There.   Read the rest of this entry »

Winchester’s latest book is organized around what could have easily been a contrived theme. Apparently the author recognized the danger he was in and so backed off, making it a rough organizing principle, rather than forcing the issue. Winchester’s wife is Japanese, presumably enamoring him at least to some extent with eastern culture. Perhaps that is the source of the book’s strange organizational framework - the five classical elements. Unfortunately, Winchester's political comments and innuendos detracted immensely from what was, on the whole an interesting and well-written book. However, instead of finishing the book with a positive impression, this reviewer was left with a sour taste in his mouth.   Read the rest of this entry »

No Better Time is the story of Akamai’s founder, Danny Lewin. It is at once fascinating and ultimately heartbreaking. Akamai is a company that set out to solve the problem of World Wide Wait. Molly Knight Raskin’s book is the story of the man behind the algorithms that helped transform the internet ... and the story of the startup called Akamai.   Read the rest of this entry »

This s a synopsis of the second chapter of Richard Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences prefaced and intermingled with some thoughts from this reader. That’s the thing about a great book, it’s thought provoking. This is the third in a series of posts about this important book.   Read the rest of this entry »

Peggy Noonan had an excellent piece in last week's Wall Streen Journal which everyone should read. She reminds us why privacy is so important:   Read the rest of this entry »

Most Americans probably do not understand the scope and scale of the NSA's data collection efforts. If they did, they would understand that these numbers are almost statistically insignificant. If the abuse of power and lack of oversight documented in this article in the Washington Post, can be termed "insignificant."   Read the rest of this entry »

A perspicacious thought from Powerlineblog. You be the judge as to it's merits.   Read the rest of this entry »

Two small email service providers seemingly committed harakiri rather than comply with US government requests demands (the term request implies a choice) for information about the contents of their customers data. Well, actually one of the companies didn't get a request, but "saw the handwriting on the wall," and decided to proactively destroy its systems.   Read the rest of this entry »