Toronto An organization’s convention is of course going to bring forward its supporters to speak to its faithful, so it was not a surprise to find a love feast in the remarks made by speakers at various events of the ACORN Canada bi-annual convention in Toronto, but the “why” behind the remarks were as …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Coming Water Wars, City-to-City, State-to-State
New Orleans Everyone is watching the U.S. Supreme Court for key decisions this term around race, gay rights, and other issues, but their rejection of claims from Tarrant County, Texas where Fort Worth is located in the sprawling metroplex of north Texas, on any water from Oklahoma as part of the Red River Compact, may …
Tech Companies are Lying on Privacy
San Francisco In the wake of the disclosures that the National Security Administration has been amassing data from tech companies and telecommunications outfits on personal, domestic internet activity and phone calls, the companies seem to be doing a lot of dissembling and lawyerly lying about what they are doing and not doing, even though it …