One word: Immigration. Now is not the time for the United States to keep people out of the country. China and India are picking up a lot of growth and becoming more desirable places for people that want the excitement of a developing country with modern ammenities. They are creating...
AP UPDATE - Osama bin Laden was unarmed when the US commandos shot and killed him. AP UPDATE 2 - Only one person in the house was armed and shot at the special forces team, while 5 were killed. [Maybe the reason the government won't release the video is because...
I can't believe it got to the point where Obama actually felt compelled to publish his birth certificate after the State of Hawaii had already said his valid birth certificate was on file. So a group of bigotted white people got all upset that a black person finally got into...
Since he's one of the few truly great politicians in office when it comes to being able to draw from lessons of history and apply them to current day predicaments, I'm excited that Ron Paul has taken the first step today in running for the Presidency again. Maybe we'll have...
Politics are a funny thing. Highlighted by this article about California, we can see that California hasn't been doing too shabby - having above average GDP growth from 1999-2009 compared to the rest of the country taking home 50% of all venture capital dollars it's budget deficit, while large, is...
Background: I'm building a Sinatra app with the orientdb gem, and I'm working on making a couple basic rake tasks, so that people using OrientDB and ruby can have access to database tasks like activerecord has. But since I'm not using Rails, I don't have railties and personally, I'd rather...
[[UPDATE 2/1/2011 4pm: Obama just gave a speech that was aired on Al Jazeera saying that the Egyptian government should have a transition now, but I never heard him once mention the word democracy, unlike his 2009 speech in Cairo, where it was one of his central points.]] When Obama...
A couple days ago, I posted the following status to Facebook, which linked to a New York Times article about the Europeans criticizing the United States's response: Obama tells China, Russia, and the Middle East to embrace democracy and transparency, but his administration is hypocritical when the same comes right...
I know it has been over a year, but I thought the following quote in Consilience, which I am working on finishing, is great to reflect on. True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of the moral principles of a society, augmented by those...
With all of the fuss in DC surrounding Congress working on sponsoring new health care initiatives, it doesn't seem like anyone has asked this basic question: is health care truly that critical? Here's the short question and answer - if you don't have health care for a year, will the...
