Will Nick Clegg be a modern hero? He's promising a sweeping roll-back of the surveillance state in the UK. Barak Obama promised the same sort of thing early on in his campaign, when he was still an...
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Look at who's all for governmental transparency: Obama Veto Is Threatened on 2010 Intelligence Budget Measure Seriously, if they want people to trust the government in the United States, why do they...
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This is a great, great video. Watch it, get your friends to watch it and make them agree to get their friends to watch it: You couldn't find a clearer expression of the importance of free use rights...
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This story is interesting news. Not that I like the idea of turning every single thing we like into a "right" to having it (personally, I would be happier if rights were only checks against actions...
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The German Constitutional Court has ruled that their data retention law is unconstitutional as written. This is a great victory for those in Germany who don't want the powers that be casually observing...
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Here's an interesting TED Talk from David Cameron about the upside-down pyramid, though he doesn't use that term: While he is looking at the whole thing from a conservative small-government...
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If you're interested in the state of the rule of law in the United States, read these recent comments by the Director of National Intelligence. If this is the case, I wonder why Abdulmutallab was allowed...
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The state of South Australia recently instituted effectively banning anonymous political speech on the internet. They Government subsequently backed off the law due to outrage at the law expressed on...
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Here's another example of the upside-down pyramid in action. Protesters performing a virtual march "on top of" their real march. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/visualize_dissent_turkish_users_protest_censorship...
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This article from the Globe and Mail picks up on some of the themes that I was talking about in my post about needing a new political science, or understanding of politics. Apparently the Canadian...
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Sitting on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, trying not to fall in.
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