Dr. DigiPol

Quiz of the day:
Q. Which country is planning to violate the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)?
a. Iran
b. Iraq
c. USA
d. none of the above
A. USA. That’s right. The USA is planning a new program to upgrade its nuclear weapons. The RRW warheads (reliable replacement warhead) will be a new generation of nuclear warheads. […]

Some of you may recognize the title as a line from the 1974 Rolling Stones song Fingerprint File. And just as their Superbowl performance proved the Stones can still rock, the Bush Administration’s performance proves that Jagger’s observation is still true.
By now, everyone knows about the NSA’s domestic wiretapping program, or as the […]

Does the President have the authority to conduct doemstic wiretaps without a warrant? According to Reuters, “(Attorney General) Gonzales said Bush has inherent constitutional powers to conduct warrantless surveillance to detect or prevent an attack. He also said a resolution passed by the U.S. Congress after September 11 authorizing the use of military force […]

You probably think I should ask, “Is the new Federal Prescription Drug program well designed?” or “Why did they create a welfare system for insurance companies?” But I am trying to maintain my focus on Internet politics. Usually, I write about Internet advocacy, but today I am focusing on government services. Specifically, […]

There is mounting evidence that plans are underway that will end up hurting the evacuees, especially the poor and black citizens of New Orleans.
First, I want to draw your attention to Naomi Klein’s recent article called “Purging the Poor.” According to evidence she has uncovered, “New Orleans is already displaying signs of a […]

Sometimes it is better to just let you read what someone else wrote.
Here is a story from Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo of Democracy Now about how the Department of Homeland Security has sent mercenaries from Blackwater to New Orleans to fight the criminals there. Remember Blackwater? They are the mercenaries that strung […]

Reports from a wide range of the news media have identified serious problems with FEMA under the Bush Administration. From FEMA head Michael Brown’s startling admission four days after Katrina hit New Orleans that he only just learned there were more than 10,000 people stranded in the Convention Center to reports that Brown sent a memo to Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff five hours after the storm hit politely asking for 1,000 Homeland Security personnel to make there way down to the Gulf coast over the next two days to FEMA turning away donations of water from Wal-Mart before the storm hit, FEMA’s gross negligence and incompetence is now common knowledge.

Below is a letter I just sent to the Editors of the Washington Post. I thought I would share it with you:

Dear Washington Post Editor,

I am disturbed to find little or no coverage in the pages of the Washington Post regarding the apparent quid pro quo arrangement between Judge Roberts, while he was sitting on the Federal Appeals panel deciding whether to apply the Geneva Convention to military tribunals in Guantanamo, and the White House, who nominated Roberts to the Supreme Court one week after he ruled in favor of the Administration.