Category Archives: Politics

Obama’s Plan to Loosen Comcast’s Stranglehold on Your Internet

Posted on January 14, 2015 by StevenTorresRamos

President Obama glad-handed some network engineers in Cedar Falls, Iowa today. No, it was not a campaign stop. (He’s done running for president.) The commander-in-chief’s visit to the local utility office of Iowa’s first gigabit city is a mission statement: … Continue reading →

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The Real Life of Uncle Sam

Posted on September 29, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

As a personification of the United States, Uncle Sam is at once beloved and detested.The insistent cartoon — clad in stars and stripes and bearing great semblance to Abraham Lincoln — was, and to some extent still is, lauded as … Continue reading →

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Absent major changes, Puerto Rico faces a fiscal calamity – Economics – AEI

Posted on August 15, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

Puerto Rico needs to stop spending, and it can start with its bloated bureaucracy. Some 24% of all jobs are in government, compared with 16% in the U.S. Other fixable problems include what The Economist calls “inflated benefit payments, for … Continue reading →

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Healthcare.gov revamp promises simpler sign-ups

Posted on June 6, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

It’s almost universally accepted that Healthcare.gov’s launch was an absolute nightmare. The next iteration may very well not be, thanks to the new blood that’s been working tirelessly on a redesign since last November. As Wired tells it, once the … Continue reading →

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How Obama’s Power Plant Regulations Will Transform Our Electric Grid

Posted on June 2, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

President Obama and the EPA have just taken their biggest and boldest step ever to fight climate change. The Clean Power Plan, unveiled by the EPA today, is far more important than the Keystone XL pipeline—if also far less sexy … Continue reading →

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Obamacare and you: Do I have to have Obamacare? – CSMonitor.com

Posted on April 7, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

I’m not really political, but people have asked me about this quite a bit. “I don’t know why, so don’t ask”. So here it is I found the most straight forward article I could find and here it is… STR … Continue reading →

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FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light

Posted on December 7, 2013 by StevenTorresRamos

Scary. Insane. Ridiculous. Invasive. Wrong. The Washington Post reports that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computers camera \”without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording\” for years now. What in the hell … Continue reading →

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Sweden Is Closing Prisons Due to Lack of People to Put In Them

Posted on November 12, 2013 by StevenTorresRamos

As the prison population spirals out of control in the United States, Sweden finds itself with an interesting and opposite predicament: it has too many prisons and not enough prisoners. For this reason, the Scandinavian country recently decided to shutter … Continue reading →

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Detroit emergency manager files bankruptcy

Posted on July 18, 2013 by StevenTorresRamos

DETROIT AP — Detroit on Thursday became the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy, as the state-appointed emergency manager filed for Chapter 9 protection.Kevyn Orr, a bankruptcy expert, was hired by the state in March to lead … Continue reading →

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Puerto Rico delegate seeks vote for statehood

Posted on May 16, 2013 by StevenTorresRamos

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico AP — Puerto Ricos representative in Congress is seeking an unprecedented yes-or-no vote on whether the island should become the 51st state, submitting a bill Wednesday that riled many in the U.S. territory.The proposal by Pedro … Continue reading →