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How Do the Presidential Primary Candidates Stack Up?

Published on January 24, 2016 By sirrahc

“Under every stone lurks a politician.”  — Aristophanes Some of you may remember back in October, when I posted a table of several (potential) candidates for Speaker of the House and their scores from several thinktanks. Well, I thought it might be both fun and educational to do the same for the Presidential primary candidates […]

Primer on Net Neutrality

Published on March 1, 2015 By sirrahc

“Title II regulation of the Internet is a solution in search of a problem.”  — Logan Albright, Research Analyst at FreedomWorks I confess, I have been putting off taking the time & effort to get up to speed on this whole “Net Neutrality” thing. I mean, I had the gist of it but didn’t know […]

Hoo-ray for Chile! (Obama/Pelosi/Reid, Please Take Note)

Published on February 8, 2010 By sirrahc

Outside of South America, I would be willing to bet that most people think of Chile as just another developing, “third-world” country with a handful of (relatively) wealthy people lording it over the peons. And, a few years ago, that would have been a fairly accurate description. Inflation was skyrocketing, the people were dirt poor […]