New Orleans Over the last couple of weeks I have flown to England, Scotland, and Canada, and as I write this I’m packing for twelve days in Delhi, Bengaluru, and Mumbai, India. I don’t fly as much as I once did, when sometimes I was on the road 60% of the time. I get to …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Enough with the Privatization of Security
Little Rock Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, appeared via video-conference to an applauding audience in Austin at the South by South West conference among the Technorati to argue for better protection of privacy data. He was lobbying for improved encryption programs and reportedly Google, Yahoo and others are on the job already. Snowden’s hope, reportedly, …
Do We Need a New Party to Turn Texas Blue?
Dallas With the results of the recent primary elections in Texas, perhaps it is time to look at the progress of Battleground Texas and the notion of “turning Texas blue,” as the Democrats call it. The hope in a nutshell is essentially that “demographics are destiny.” Robert Draper in the Texas Monthly summed it …