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It is time to take Vermont out of moth balls and return it to full productive and strategic use. Trucking products from Vermont a few hundred miles makes sense. […]

The Street on Welfare
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008; Page A19
Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy.
The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of […]

As I try to read the current political tea leaves, I see a strange paradox for Senator Clinton.
The apparent disarray shown by the Clinton campaign since Iowa suggests a lack of leadership skills in the face of an unexpected twist of fate.
So you have three odd strikes against Senator Clinton:
1. Her touted experience was fooled […]

By: DR FAROOQ HASSAN
The Bush administration until recently backed Musharraf, because it needed him in its War on Terror. However, it was realised in time that it is wrong to think that support for the rule of law in Pakistan is at variance with the war against terrorists. Backing Musharraf, and his martial law, only […]

Looking into the past to imagine the future at the New England Wireless & Steam Museum’s 2007 Yankee Steam Up in East Greenwich, RI. Communications and electricity are inextricably interrelated to each other. Looking into their pasts we can imagine their futures — and ours.

The full photo set is here.

This was a featured add campaign in India as they celebrated their 60th year of independence on August 15th.
Another was:
One billion hearts; one voice

India is, of course, a huge, diverse country - over 30 states, over 200 languages.
Contrast this effort in India to unify the population and build up the country with the politics of […]

Dick Cheney ‘94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire
This is truly an amazing bit of history. “How many dead Americans is Sadam worth?”

We in the United States are now in a deep and potentially fatal Constitutional crisis. We have, at our great peril, “bought into” the false philosophy of no limits and no consequences propagated by those who champion unregulated, global, “free” market capitalism.
I now believe that our Constitutional crisis flows from the following deep […]

A 13-year-old’s award-winning essay suggests the die-off comes from feeding them too much corn syrup and trucking them long distances to pollinate crops.
By john darling
for the Mail Tribune
June 19, 2007
If the prize-winning 4-H essay of an Applegate boy is anywhere near the mark, the die-off of bees in the Rogue Valley and across the world […]

Michael Fraase has blogged on David Isenberg’s excellent SMART Letter #100.
David Isenberg has me convinced that the telecommunications and cable companies are structurally and philosophically incapable of network neutrality—the prohibition of “any service that privileges, degrades, or prioritizes any packet… based on its source, ownership, or destination.” He sums this up nicely:
“Netheads want to change […]