Webster is Principal and Founder at Bruce F. Webster & Associates, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He works with organizations to help them with troubled or failed information technology (IT) projects. He has also worked in several dozen legal cases as a consultant and as a testifying expert, both in the United States and Japan. He can be reached at bwebster@bfwa.com, or you can follow him on Twitter as @bfwebster.
Philip Klein over at the American Spectator analyzes the Baucus Healthcare Bill and finds (surprise!) that the Democrats are playing fast and loose in order to get a favorable estimate from the Congressional Budget Office: Given that the CBO only puts a price tag on the first 10 years of a piece of legislation, Democrats […]
![The Loma Prieta quake — 20 years (and a few days) later [updated]](http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2005/15/images/fig27.jpg "The Loma Prieta quake — 20 years (and a few days) later [updated]")
Yeah, I should have written and posted this yesterday, but I didn’t realize it was the 20th anniversary until today (thanks to this post). Sandra and I, with seven of our nine kids, had moved to Soquel, California in early 1988. Actually, we were five miles outside of Soquel; we bought a home in the […]
Eugene Robinson, at the Washington Post, expresses more disappointment about President Obama: President Obama’s brief display of drive-by compassion Thursday in New Orleans was, for me, by far the worst outing of his presidency thus far — and the biggest disappointment. . . . “I wish I could just write a check,” Obama said. If […]
It’s about to move into commercial real estate (emphasis mine): Investors who bought into the deal were confident that real-estate manager Tishman Speyer would be able to greatly boost profits by raising rents in Manhattan’s sizzling apartment market. But today, the 56-building, 11,000-apartment property is suffering from a slowing New York economy, a lawsuit that […]
From Minnesotans for Global Warming via American Thinker, we have the following quote (Discover Magazine, 1989) from Warmist Stephen Schneider: On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means that we must include all […]
Matt Welch over at Reason reminds us of a critical historical event that, curiously, we don’t celebrate: November 1989 was the most liberating month of arguably the most liberating year in human history, yet two decades later the country that led the Cold War coalition against communism seems less interested than ever in commemorating, let […]
. . . except it’s getting harder and harder to tell just what season it is. Hat tip to The Consumerist. ..bruce w..
Hat tip to American Digest. IMPORTANT UPDATE! You can help Pres. Obama to get an actual vote for the Heisman Award! Vote early and vote often! ..bruce w..
