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No-bid Obamacare
The primary contractor for the failed Healthcare.gov web site — the Canadian firm CGI — was hired with a no-bid contract. Cronyism generally doesn’t surprise me, especially from these guys, but in this...
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Still no Obamacare transparency
I noted on Monday that two major contributing factors to Healthcare.gov’s failure came not from typical government incompetence, but from the Obama administration’s own political malfeasance: (1) They...
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Thermocline of truth
A superbly prophetic of prediction of disaster in the Obamacare exchanges. UPDATE: This quote from Nancy Pelosi: At a Thursday afternoon press conference, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi was asked...
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OMG
Healthcare.gov is 500 million lines of code. 500 million! By comparison: Yeah, I’m sure they’ll be able to fix it really quickly. . . POSTSCRIPT: The caption is a little inapt, since Healthcare.gov is...
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Obamcare problems pervasive
As a general rule, just don’t believe anything the Obama administration says: An executive of the largest contractor working on the federal health insurance exchange website told Congress Thursday that...
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Healthcare.gov violates security standards
It’s a good thing that Healthcare.gov doesn’t work, because the system is also insecure: As HealthCare.gov was being developed, crucial tests to ensure the security and privacy of customer information...
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Robot lies
I suppose programming robots to lie is a big step forward in making them behave like humans.
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HHS won’t disclose security breaches
HHS, which under the execrable Obamacare law gets to make its own rules, has decided that it will not be required to disclose any security breaches, even to the people whose information is stolen. And...
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Court rejects net neutrality, again
The DC Court of Appeals has unanimously rejected the Obama administration’s second effort to impose network neutrality. (It unanimously rejected their first effort in 2010.) This is a good thing. In...
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Obamacare malware
Just when you thought Obamacare’s woes couldn’t get any worse: U.S. intelligence agencies last week urged the Obama administration to check its new health care network for malicious software after...
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Iron Beam
Years ago, liberals made an ideological commitment to the idea that missile defense was impossible. It’s easy to understand how: Reagan was for it, and liberals were against everything he was for. Why...
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It goes without saying
If Obama won’t follow his own health care law, he certainly won’t follow his own website privacy policy. I do find it amusing that he uses the same tracking company as YouPorn.com though.
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LightSquared
The LightSquared debacle still isn’t quite over; the remains of the politically connected company are now suing the government over its denial of a permit to operate. Since I was strongly opposed to...
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With the recent FCC action on net neutrality, a lot of people are worked up, but almost no one seems to know what it actually means. Here is what it is all about: The Internet is a protocol for...
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