Uneasy Rhetoric

If there is one thing that is changing faster than the global climate, it is the rate at which scientists (and by “scientists” I am most definitely not including economists) and even nonscientists are abandoning the stance that global warming may not be at least a partial byproduct of human activity.
In today’s Bee, Dan Weintraub [...]

I’m a bit late to the whole immigration debate, but bear with me. My own opinions on the issue of illegal immigration run the gamut from understanding that it is against the law to understanding that illegal immigrants are an integral part of our economy. At its core though, I believe that illegal [...]

Willie Brown, the former Speaker of the California Assembly, former Mayor of San Francisco, consummate politician, and reason, in many people’s minds, why term limits passed in California, has said that Steve Westly is the man to beat in the Democratic primary election for governor.
Or did he?
Westly is “less informed, less knowledgeable” than Angelides and [...]

According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle (via Kim Alexander’s blog on voting technology), the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank, opposes efforts to include a paper trail with electronic voting - in fact, the Institute called requiring a paper trail with voting machines one of the top 10 policy blunders of [...]

I just got finished reading highlights from the latest Digital Future Project report from the USC Annenberg School’s Center for the Digital Future. The findings are mildly surprising: 39.8 percent if Internet users agree that going online can give people more political power while 61.7 percent of respondents, which includes both Internet users and [...]