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So last night I was walking in Tenleytown up to the metro station.  Walked by the fire department, where a bunch of firefighters were casually slumping over some benches and chairs they have out front of their station, lazily enjoying … Continue reading →

Ron Paul spoke about one possible cause for increasing oil prices: the continued insecurity involving the US possibly striking Iran. I didn’t even think of this one in my previous analysis of what could be causing conspicuous oil price increases, … Continue reading →

Lara Logan, chief CBS News foreign correspondent, went on The Daily Show and reminded us that more foreign soldiers died in Afghanistan in June than in Iraq. What little American attention there is on the long, far wars has been … Continue reading →

Last week, I attended a conference on plug-in hybrid cars and Washington policy, sponsored by the Brookings Institution and Google.org. Jim Woolsey, a security powerhouse as former CIA director and senior guy at Booz Allen Hamilton, described our continued reliance … Continue reading →

They say that the reason we don’t get more news from other countries here in the US is in large part because American news organizations have shut down their international bureaus. This is probably true to some degree, because it’s … Continue reading →

I’m so ecstatic! The board said that I was the first name they thought of for this fellowship! And the senior fellow sounds like we share a lot of the same ideas about the state of social networking! Dear Ben … Continue reading →

No Jobs Yet I just spent a few days in Newport, Rhode Island, to see the wedding for my friends Ryan and Erin. For July 4th weekend, I found out I’ll be staying at the Four Seasons HULAGHULAG for the … Continue reading →

I ended up getting an A in political economy of communications policy. My professor really loved my final paper. She said not many people are able to pull off an analysis of cultural, technological, and business influences on a product … Continue reading →

I have a theory. I remember wrestling with the idea in the 2000 election that maybe it IS actually better for a Republican to be in office for the stock market. Since I was daytrading, I was partially interested in … Continue reading →