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British Prime Minister Apologizes for Treatment of WWII Codebreaker Alan Turing

by Misha Houser • September 10, 2009 • Comments Off

Editor’s NOTE: ThisÂ item about the British government’s mistreatment of the German Enigma code-breakerÂ because he was gay, sent to my by a friend in northern California, Jeffrey Taylor,Â who is a Techie for Equality. Number10.gov.uk The Prime Minister has released a statement…

by Dan Chmielewski • August 10, 2009 • Comments Off

While the Register’s Orange Punch bloggers are always pretty quick to highlight any information that declares Global Warming to be a hoax or something based on flawed science, it’s always good to get information from other resources.Â In this case,…

by Chris Prevatt • August 6, 2009 • 1 Comment

The OC Register’s Fermin Leal reported yesterday on the Santa Ana Unified School District’s effort to assist in the battle against global warming and rising energy costs. Santa Ana school adding solar power system Saddleback High may soon produce up…

by Dan Chmielewski • July 24, 2009 • 2 Comments

While Obamacare is referred to regularly, in derogatory terms, to the Canadian healthcare system by Americans who continue to insist we have the best healthcare in the world, the blog Sadly, No! documents how we do compared to our neighbors…

by Chris Prevatt • July 20, 2009 • 1 Comment

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” â€” Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969 Fourty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz AldrinÂ became the first people to landÂ on the moon. They landed at 20:17 UTC (13:17 PDT) on July 20…

by Dan Chmielewski • July 17, 2009 • 3 Comments

Dr. Orly Taitz, who’s leading the OC charge that President Obama wasn’t born in this country and lacks a US Birth certificate, is having her own credentials as a lawyer questioned. According to a post in the blog, A Candid…

by Dan Chmielewski • July 17, 2009 • Comments Off

I was all of eight years old and allowed to stay up late to watch history unfold on my grandfather’s black and white TV. It’s been 40 years since Neil Armstrong uttered the words, “That’s one small step for man…one…