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Response from Representative Sam Graves

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Thank you for contacting me regarding the ongoing situation in Syria. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue and welcome the opportunity to respo...

Politics

Syria: Contacting Senators Blunt and McCaskill and Representative Sam Graves

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In the shadow of the anniversary of Dr Martin L King’s "I Have a Dream" speech, I have some other words of Dr King I’d like to share with ...

Health care/Politics/Technology

This won’t scale

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’m a software engineer. One concept that constantly comes up in software engineering is "scaling". We have to make sure any systems we write ar...

Debt/Politics

Calculated interest

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Kenneth Ballard / 7 Comments

Currently one of the hot topics floating around the country is the idea of the government stepping in and purchasing all of the student loan debt that is curren...

Politics

Apologizing to our veterans

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Another Veteran’s Day has come upon us. Many people around the country will be making their various symbolic displays of cultish patriotism while belittli...

Politics

You took the knife from our backs and plunged it into your chest

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

There’s a saying that you must get behind someone before you can stab them in the back. This is how the Tea Party definitely feels, I’m sure. For th...

Politics

Defining "equal work"

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Kenneth Ballard / 2 Comments

Oftentimes many will cite an alleged "pay gap" between men and women. Despite this notion having been refuted time and again, it is still proffered in...

Politics

Endangering Big Bird?

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Mitt Romney has recently taken a bit of heat for saying that funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting should be cut. I happen to agree with that stanc...

Politics

False Hope and No Change… from either Democrats or Republicans

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Aren’t campaigns for President fun to watch? You see a bunch of people who have aligned themselves behind a particular moniker that is supposed to describ...

Politics

Political arm candy

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Representative Paul Ryan [R-WI(1)] can, in many respects, be called "diet Ron Paul", in that economically and fiscally, Paul Ryan wants many of the th...

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