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The first nationally televised debate (C-SPAN) on the subject of mandatory voting, or voting duty, occurred in Washington D.C. on June 27, 2011 (watch it at: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/DebateonMa). Why did it take so long? Because discussing this topic has been a taboo in electoral, legislative and main media arenas. Taboos afflict all know cultures, anthropologists tell…
Dear Cisco Shareholder: Thank you for your e-mail support for my demand that Cisco’s bosses disgorge some of that $43+ billion in cash that management is stockpiling, back to its owners – the shareholders. My criticism and demand for a 50 cent annual dividend and a special $1 per share dividend were reported in the…
Dear President Obama: Yesterday’s Washington Post published a page one article headlined “President Waging A Charm Offensive. Obama woos big donors to help fund early campaign expansion.” Later in the article appears this unseemly behavior by a public servant paid for by public funds: “A key player in the closed-door donor recruitment is White House…
Why do many serious readers of newspapers go first to the Sports section? Maybe because they want to read about teams playing fun games by sports journalists and columnists, who have more freedom to use imaginative words and phrases than others in their craft. The trouble is that ever-more organized and commercialized sports are squeezing…
John T. Chambers, CEO Cisco Corporation 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, California, 95134-1706 Dear Mr. Chambers: Cisco share valuation may not be one of your priorities but your owners A little history is instructive. In March 2000 Cisco stock soared above $80 per share. There have been no splits since that time. In the…
The meticulous Harvard Law Review editors should be rolling over in their footnotes. The recidivist violations of constitutional and statutory requirements by their celebrated predecessor at that journal – Barack Obama has reached Orwellian dimensions in the war against Libya. You see, the widespread daily bombing of Libya, the strict naval blockade of Muammar Gadhafi-controlled…
The 45th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) next month should remind all who have used this wonderful citizen tool against government secrecy and cover-ups of FOIA’s towering champion Congressman John Moss (D-Calif.) As a legislator, John Moss was a wonder of integrity, diligence, strategic and populist follow-through. Although Moss was not a…
Dear President Obama: My name is E.coli 0104:H4. I am being detained in a German Laboratory in Bavaria, charged with being “a highly virulent strain of bacteria.” Together with many others like me, the police have accused us of causing about 20 deaths and nearly five hundred cases of kidney failure – so far. Massive…
NEWS RELEASE In a statement released in Washington, DC today (Friday, June 3) consumer advocate Ralph Nader, responding to growing media coverage and developments in the Atlanta area on the risks posed by water fluoridation, said, “It’s way overdue for this country to have an extended and open scientific and regulatory debate on fluoridation. There…
It is time to shine the light on the big, affluent corporate lawyers who anonymously create those non-competitive fine print contracts we all have to sign to purchase goods and services. It’s time for an open letter to these Darth Vaders of business law who have destroyed our freedom of contract and built a new…