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Date: November 11th, 2009

Navajo Code Talkers to attend NY Vets Parade

11 November, 2009 (12:31) | History, Human Interest, Military | By: ricjames

One of the unsung stories of WWII was the involvement of the Navajo Code Talkers in the Pacific Theater. In our always-on, digital world we forget that secure communications over large distances was incredibly difficult 70 years ago. Computers as we know them today simply didn’t exist, making electronic encryption an impossibility. Radio and telephone [...]

Kelo site dropped by Pfizer

11 November, 2009 (10:23) | Eminent Domain, Human Interest, Law, Politics | By: ricjames

In July 2005 the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Kelo v. New London, essentially saying that a local government could execute an eminent domain taking against a private property holder for the purposes of giving that property over to a 3rd private party so that a development could be done that might generate [...]

Happy Veterans’ Day

11 November, 2009 (09:24) | Human Interest, Military | By: ricjames

To those who served, to those who still do…to those who came home in glory, or in silence, or not at all…to those fought pitched battles in war, quietly watched in peace, or did the myriad of thankless little jobs no one ever heard about but upon which campaigns were won…to all of those who [...]