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Is Congress looking at the right VA scandal?

The U.S. Senate is finally getting on the Veterans Administration's VA case. Spurred by a class action suit which is now going to trial, Sen. Patty Murray has demanded the resignation of Dr. Ira Katz, the head of the agency's mental health wing. As...

Tags: Sen., U.S. Congress, Health Care, John McCain, VA, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Telecom immunity bill advances in Senate; Dodd promises filibuster

The battle over telecommunications immunity continued Monday with a Senate vote, 76-10, to advance for a floor vote a bill protecting the companies from lawsuits relating to cooperation with national surveillance efforts. The Times reports that most Democrats voted to move forward, as a bid by...

Tags: Bill, Federal Government, Government, Immunity, Networking, Richard Koman, Sen., Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telephony, U.S. Senate

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Ten tech-related YouTube clips you shouldn't miss

From the chimp playing Pac-Man to Jon Stewart's jabs at Sen. Ted Stevens, here's a greatest hits collection of tech videos.

Tags: jab, YouTube, video, Jon Stewart, Sen., YouTube Inc.

Image galleries 2006-07-19

Ten tech-related YouTube clips you shouldn't miss

From the chimp playing Pac-Man to Jon Stewart's jabs at Sen. Ted Stevens, here's a greatest hits collection of tech videos.

Tags: jab, YouTube, video, Jon Stewart, Sen., YouTube Inc.

Image galleries 2006-07-19

Photo: Leahy warns of growing e-surveillance

Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy warns of growing electronic surveillance during a speech at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Washington.

Tags: Patrick Leahy, Vermont, Sen., Washington, photograph, conference

Image galleries 2006-05-05

Photo: Leahy warns of growing e-surveillance

Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy warns of growing electronic surveillance during a speech at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Washington.

Tags: Patrick Leahy, Vermont, Sen., Washington, photograph, conference

Image galleries 2006-05-05

Photo: Sen. Clinton advocates energy reform

Sen. Hillary Clinton calls for "strategic energy fund" to boost investment in efficient and nonpolluting alternatives to oil.

Tags: photograph, Hillary Clinton, Sen., investment

Image galleries 2005-10-25

Photo: Sen. Clinton advocates energy reform

Sen. Hillary Clinton calls for "strategic energy fund" to boost investment in efficient and nonpolluting alternatives to oil.

Tags: photograph, Hillary Clinton, Sen., investment

Image galleries 2005-10-25

Additional Resources

Sente 6.0.17 (Mac)

Sente 5 is the premier academic reference manager for Mac OS X. Sente's iTunes-like interface makes finding, reviewing, organizing and using the academic literature in your field easier than ever. Sente (pronounced sen-tay) makes literature searches easier by providing a front-end to hundreds of data sources around the world,...

Tags: Data Source, Result, Apple Macintosh, Third Street Software, Sente 5

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Lots of talk around the American capital today on the topic of global warming. The CO2 emissions from various political factions and lobbyists alone could raise the global temp another degree or two. And that's not counting the carbon footprint of all the plane travel involved in moving...

Tags: U.S., Republican, Climate Change, U.S. Senate, Global Warming, European Union, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Don't cry for me Joe Lieberman

the patriots are rising against the socialist billThe Obamacare is gasping for air while the liberals are preparing to be booted out of the congress in 2010.The real Americans have risen again and upheld the values of the founding fathers against dangerous foreign socialist ideeas.End Socialism Now!Enough with the Commissar's...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Obamacare, patriot, socialist, socialism, reconciliation, Joe Lieberman

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Bells give net neutrality the McCain two-step

Net neutrality can only...be accomplished by a company divesting the provision of the infrastructure from the provision of the services that use the infrastructure. As long as the same company provides both services there will never be neutrality. These companies have to much at stake in delivering services that ride...

Tags: Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress

humm, I don't think we have all the facts.humm, okay.I'm gonna say that there's probably a lot of details involved, and the EPA probably didn't wake up one day, grow a green heart, and take action just because they turned green one day.And don't look now, but the Democrats aren't...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, energy battle, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Massachusetts becomes Canada as reform debate nears climax

Obamacare ship is sinkingPeople saw the light with the failed socialist experiment in mASSachusetts, so liberal politicians like Barnie Frank can stuck their health care reform where the sun doesn't shine.Yeah, the ship is sinking, but it is Obama who's rearanging the chairs to give Pelosi and Reid front row...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Podcast: Can Windows 7 erase Vista memories?

I am a linux user, but...I believe it CAN erase memories of vista just like XP erased ME. Don't get me wrong, I hate M$, but I do think they can, unfortunately, survive vista, and in all fairness, vista is not as bad as people think, it's pretty bad, but...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, podcast, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Vista memory, memory

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

T-Mobile turns Sidekick data disaster into a PR mess

This wasn't cloud computingThis wouldn't have happened with cloud computing. In a cloud architecture users wouldn't have even realized any disruption. They would have automatically been distributed among other non failed geo dispursed instances while the failed instance was automatically restarted on other hardware and restored from replicated data...

Tags: Virtualization, PDC, cloud computing, SideKick, T-Mobile, public relations

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Has Chamber become a Chamber of Horrors for its members?

There's an essay coming out in one of those MSM pubs that wll stir even more anger and argument over the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's political stance via-a-vis federal action or inaction on global warming. I've blogged about this before, most recently when Apple left the Chamber over its...

Tags: Stance, Greenhouse Gas, Apple Inc., Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Self insured may be biggest winners in health reform

more nonsenseAvoiding insurance companies and creeating death panels are not going to improve the healthcare.The only measures that can relly reform helthcare are in the republican bills that the democrats don't want you to see.Noo thanks"Intervention in maintaining wellness."If by "intervention" you mean "we know what's better for you than...

Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, patient, Dana, Obama, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Senate climate bill must lure more support to pass

That's not my conclusion, BTW, but the main sponsor of the newly proposed Senate bill on energy and climate change, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) admits she does not have the needed votes to pass her bill. But she's working on it. That could mean weeks or months of...

Tags: Bill, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-02

The Senate Dems' energy and climate bill debuts

The official name is "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act." I though the American power act had to do with invading weak countries like Grenada, Panama, Iraq and Afghainistan. This must be some other kind of power? This has to do with fossil fuel, electricity and...

Tags: Bill, U.S. Senate, Senate Dems, Transportation, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-30