Tag Archive 'republican'

Did a US congressman leak classified intel on Twitter?

Michigan Republican Peter Hoeskstra’s taking heat for revealing his ’secret’ trip to Iraq on Twitter. Yet more proof that Web 2.0 tools are changing Washington — for good and ill.

Sarah Palin polling madness

So I got an email from one of my more rabidly liberal friends the other day. She wrote:
PBS has a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP? It shows that more people are saying YES than NO!  Let’s turn this around…..You don’t have to give your name or email address [...]

Smoking guns and broken voting machines

(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely

My last post about Sequoia Voting Systems and its painfully stupid e-voting machines inspired both cheers and jeers from the Cringe faithful.
Cringester E. N. believes we should all just grow up and accept that mistakes happen (though he seems to also believe [...]

Sequoia and e-voting: The best government money can buy

(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely

I don’t know if you’ve noticed lately, but our elected officials are being determined by people who can’t do simple math or write a comprehensible sentence in English. And no, I don’t mean people who voted for Rudy Guiliani. I’m talking about [...]