CALLAHANTICS

I n early 1990, I began attending The American University in Washington DC while a dear friend continued as an undergrad at Santa Clara University in California. Thanks to her having remarkable computer savvy, she came up with a brilliant method for us to communicate with one-another across the country without the extraordinary price of long distance telephone calls. We went into the University's mainframe systems Lab in August of 1990 and she showed me how to utilize Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS), to chat with one another on two computers.  It was amazing at the time and it was a good way to stay in touch. A few weeks later, I was typing to my friend when suddenly, another conversation began….”Hi! I’m Mark. Where are you?”  I replied, “I’m Rebecca and why are you on my computer?” He worked for an Intelligence Community Agency and we went on to become very good friends. I learned relatively quickly that the Intelligence Community, US Military and Academia were all sudde

Tom Steyer , Oprah Winfrey , George Soros , Warren Buffett , Jon Stewart , Stephen Colbert , John Oliver , Samantha Bee , Bill Maher , MoveOn.org ,  Bernie Sanders , Elizabeth Warren , Kirsten Gillibrand ,  Barack & Michelle Obama , and (if you are still able) Hillary, Bill, Chelsea & The Clinton Foundation  here’s a strategic suggestion to advance our country toward an outcome that I honestly believe each of you want — help disenfranchised Americans to reinstate their ability to vote. Don't just say that you want to help. Promote and fund the multiple grass roots operations out there to assist elderly, persons with disabilities, deployed military who come back and find they are erased from the voter rolls and all other currently disenfranchised voters in getting the required identification and transportation to polling sites. Don't wait for SCOTUS to come back on Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute telling you that purging doesn't violate the National Voter Re