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I’ve worked in professionally for a large discount retailer in the systems, networking, security, and programming arenas for the last 20+ years, much of it in leadership or management roles. My resume is here. More versions of it as well as more information in general, can be found here.

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The Consent of the Governed…

Today the middle-east is learning what we have always claimed for ourselves:

“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute [...]

When we look back…

When we look back at the revolution that took hold in the Middle East these past months, we need to remember at least 2 important things:

In most of the cases the regimes that are falling, are regimes that we Americans supported. That for all of the vitriol aimed at WikiLeaks, it may well be [...]

RAND on government cost controls…

There was a time during my life that RAND was considered one of the minions of anti-Christ, thus I didn’t expect to see something like this piece out of them:

Cost Controls:  How Government Can Get More Bang for Its Buck

As a short summary – it’s a very interesting piece on how [...]

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Sometimes I think Robert Reich is a little too “mainstream”, but I’ve got to give him credit, this takes balls to propose:

http://robertreich.org/post/3317811319

Go Robert!