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Looks like the Bush administration lied again, this time about how much they expected the Medicare bill to cost. Unsurprisingly, much like every other program they introduced that would cost money, they came up with a phony number that’s far below the actual costs. I will guarantee that this new higher estimate isn’t where [...]

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In a perfect world, Bruce Schneier would be working for the Department of Homeland Security, if not running it. His CNet piece on terrorism and security comes from the pages of Information Security 101 and yet we never hear politicians speak at this level. It’s going to be to the detriment of all of us [...]

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The state of Maryland commissioned a security firm to audit the security of their electronic voting system, provided by Diebold. The results were not encouraging. The full report can be found here. I’m beginning to think that the scariest thing about Diebold’s voting systems is that Diebold already has a huge installed [...]

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My job hunt is over. A lot of people in my network passed along good leads, and I had a couple of opportunities to do cool stuff with smaller companies, but the timing turned out not to be right (they couldn’t hire me right away and I needed to be hired right away). So, I [...]

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I thought Democrats were the party that imposed massive, bureaucratic federal programs that impose on the sovereignty of states and generally make everyone unhappy? It seems like the shoe is on the other foot these days — I just wonder if voters will figure it out. The state of Virginia is trying to [...]

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I can see why politicians and political consultants are fascinated by polling. It’s as close as anyone can get to quantitatively judging what the people who vote care about and want from their politicians. Donkey Rising has an interesting look at the exit polling among voters in the Democratic primary and what they cared about [...]

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Josh Marshall’s New Yorker piece on imperialism is worth reading.

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I, like just about everyone else that actively sends email to other people, have been bitten by the latest worm floating around. It fits the pattern of most other recent worms, in that it sends itself to everyone in the victim’s address book with the return address of someone else in the address book. I [...]

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Lyn over at Medley made a nice catch this weekend on something John Ashcroft said.

Weapons of mass destruction including evil chemistry and evil biology are all matters of great concern, not only to the United States but also to the world community. They were the subject of U.N. resolutions.

What in the world does this mean? [...]

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I’ve gotten email from a ton of people about tax software, and they all said basically the same thing, which was use TurboTax in some form or another. A few people said they’d migrated away from TurboTax due to various misdeeds of Intuit, and those people said they used TaxCut. I’m going to use TurboTax, [...]

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