Nathan Lustig

Rick Santorum finished a surprise 2nd place in the Iowa Caucus yesterday after gaining a ton of ground in the past two weeks with a huge grassroots campaign that took him to every county in Iowa.  Santorum finished a surprising 8 votes short of front runner and establishment candidate Mitt Romney and did it with [...]

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There’s been lots of talk in tech circles about SOPA and PIPA the last few weeks and I wanted to write a post for the non techie to try to explain what’s going on.  For more details read Fred Wilson’s overview and the SOPA Wikipedia entry.  The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect [...]

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The US has a spending problem.  The US also has a revenue problem.  Anyone who believes it’s one or the other and not both is not being intellectually honest.  Our government spends too much on many of the wrong things and has unfunded liabilities in the trillions of dollars for health care and social security. [...]

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I’ve been watching the #occupy movement pretty much since it started about a month ago, first from retweets from some of my friends, next on facebook and now finally in the mainstream media.  Some of my more liberal friends and liberal bloggers that I read are getting incredibly excited, saying that they believe that the #occupy [...]

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I’ve been watching US/NATO involvement in Libya for the few months and have a few thoughts.  Just like Saddam Hussein, Mummar Gaddafi was a dictator who abused his own people to varying degrees.  There are horror stories coming out about some of the things his regime did to citizens and its clear that we’ve lost [...]

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I just made my first trip to the supermarket after coming back to the states today.  It was amazing to see how much more expensive food is than when I left.  I had read that food prices had gone up, but I hadn’t realized how bad it was.  I bought three bags of groceries and [...]

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