Amtrak expands random security sweeps

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Science of Politics

Here's 2 cents for the "science" of politics.

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Science Articles || Science News Forum

Full text searches of peer-reviewed science articles are now available - apparently for free.

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Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts - New York Times

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the infiltration of right-wing militia into a U.S. Army having difficulty meeting recruitment goals. Disturbing

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The Myth of the New India - New York Times

A less optimistic view of India's rapid economic progress.

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Bush Signaling Shift in Stance on Immigration - New York Times

More tactical changes in the Bush Administration's Immigration Policies. Will this ever end (probably by November)?

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VA Laptop Recovered - Data Apparently Undisturbed

Remember that VA Laptop that was stolen? It has been recovered. And remember that "irresponsible" VA official who took the laptop home? He apparently had written permission since 2002 to have both the laptop *and* the data. This is AP, so it may show up elsewhere.

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A Secret the Terrorists Already Knew - New York Times

For those who still have doubts about the Bush Administration's SWIFT story, here is more proof that the fact-base for the story has both more nuance and less controversy than is immediately apparent.

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Hawala -- swifter than SWIFT

The issue of SWIFT's importance to the interdiction of terrorist finance has come up frequently of late. I tried to make clear the real situation in some of my comments. Hawala and other funds transfer systems are more significant thanthe Administration admits publicly.

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Damage Study Urged on Surveillance Reports - New York Times

Senator Pat Roberts has decided to seek a "damage assessment" of the NY Times reporting on SWIFT messaging system surveillance. This is a decent survey of some of the issues - with a final paragraph that is more important than most of the rest

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Letter From Bill Keller on The Times's Banking Records Report - New York Times

Whatever one thinks of the NY Times' initial decision to publish, Executive Editor Bill Keller offers a spirited defense of his newspaper.

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Democrats Cite Report On Troop Cuts in Iraq

Since the U.S. Senate just voted against two democratic party proposals to put some sort of timeline on future U.S. military activities and redeployments, I can understand the frustration.

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Police launch eye-in-the-sky technology above Los Angeles - Yahoo! News

Here is a potentially interesting application of UAV technology to civilian law enforcement. Presumably this will be less expensive than fleets of ordinary helicopters.

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Serious security flaws found in Diebold electronic voting machines

As if we didn't already have enough anxiety, new problems have arisen with Diebold electronic voting machines. Let the conspiracy theories begin...

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Senate Hearings on Bush, Now

I know some will accuse me of naked "Bush Bashing". No matter. Carl Bernstein's arguments in this article deserve a hearing. I encourage Viners to give this piece a read.

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Thank Stanislav Petrov Day

I thought that this story was a great insight into the true dangers we ran during the Cold War. Some now regard that period as predictable and safe. How short human memories are!

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A Port in the Storm Over Dubai - New York Times

At last, sanity in the port security debate. This op ed also describes an initiative that should have been launched by DHS years ago.

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Outsourcing Is Climbing Skills Ladder - New York Times

On the heels of last year's National Academy of Science's report on diminishing U.S. science and educational performance, this report of globalizing effects in the value-production chain is disturbing. National policy needs to respond to this reality.

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CableCARD certification rules out home-built Windows MCE boxes, possibly other DIY solutions

As a builder of an mce home theater pc, this story has me pretty outraged. Basically it means the end of feasible white box pc makers -- in the home theater pc field. It means hobbyists will also have a hard time.

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran issues inspections warning

Iran seems to be meeting Western diplomatic escalation at every stage in the standoff over its nuclear program

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Canadians Elect Conservative Minority Government

In a reversal of the last federal election, Canadians narrowly chose a Conservative Party government led by Stephen Harper over the incumbent Liberal Party led by Paul Martin.

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