Random blatherings by Jeff

Foreign Policy asked yesterday: Is Tunisia The First Wikileaks Revolution ? Events of today might answer that question. President Ben Ali...

Quoting Jacobson , The meme that opponents of Obama are crazy and dangerous has been an explicit Democratic Party campaign strategy for ov...

Wired's Stephen Levy on " The A.I. Revolution Is On ": The Kiva bots may not seem very smart. They don’t possess anything li...

Quoting LWN.net ... "Free" is awfully nice, but, as people far wiser than your editor have observed, if you are not paying for...

The CARD Act ( bill ; NYT summary ) is a failure, argues John Stossel in " Please Stop Helping Us ". Quote, Since the Card Act p...

America is a land of immigrants. The American Dream is about an idea: create a land where immigrants are welcome; a land where everyone is...

Politico: Barack Obama makes the sale Is Obama masterfully riding the center, clipping away the angered liberals and conservatives, as con...