On Wednesday November 30th, I accompanied a group of registered voters to perform a recount of precinct votes at the Lehigh County board of elections, and was quite surprised by what I found in the back room. A Dell server, vintage 2006 running Windows Server 2000 Service Pack 0. A company called ElectionIQ manages the […]

If anyone here has recently been following the Snowden NSA revelations, it may seem like the NSA has a giant magnifying glass on our lives online. Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and I am sure other companies have allowed the NSA to “Hoover” our data indiscriminately. But there are steps you can take to regain however […]

Today, I break my rule on not posting a picture of my face on the Internet. As you may see, I have a reason. Below, I am pictured with Congressman Charles Dent, whom I met last evening at the Allentown Jewish Community Center, as he was having a “Town Hall” meeting. Though he reminds me […]

Hello again. I apologize in advance for this long post. However, I feel a simple picture or meme will not suffice to express all the information I wish to convey, so here goes.   Glen Greenwald is a reporter for The Guardian, a large daily newspaper based in the United Kingdom. . He is the […]

  Recently, I have begun posting the following to a few discussion groups I have been reading recently: I wish to expand on the initial page I made at http://realchange.us/the-gist-of-it-all/almost a year ago that describes , in part, how a beneficial change can be made for all. To better understand the words below, I ask […]

I heard it said earlier today “Jobs are an unintended consequence of the quest for profit.If we stop demonizing the quest for profit, the inevitable consequence would be a return of jobs.” That got me to thinking on the points below:   The quest for profit is the quest for power. And as we all […]