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At least one place your vote will be counted
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- Wednesday 10th September 2008
Amidst the certainty that this presidential election will be a close one, and that hundreds of thousands of Americans – poor people, students, the elderly, and virtually anyone who might vote Democratic – will either be kept away from the polls or have their votes mysteriously invalidated, let us remember something quite obvious: Americans are not the only ones effected by this vaudevillian…
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The RNC & The DNC in 60 seconds
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- Tuesday 9th September 2008
RNC:
DNC:
Thanks to Mark…
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Defending Sarah Palin
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- Friday 5th September 2008
Thanks to KG
But wait! There’s more!
What do real, deep Republican thinkers like Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan think of Palin? Let’s listen in while they guest on a TV chat show when they don’t realize the mics are…
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“It’s important that I do what I know to be the right thing”
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- Tuesday 2nd September 2008
Someday – if we’re very, very, good, and work very, very hard – Dennis Kucinich will be president.
This is excerpted from a short Q & A the NY Times ran recently:
Are you saying the Bush administration is likely to declare war soon just to help Republican candidates pick up some votes?
Well, you know, they increased the funding to Georgia a while back for military purposes.
You…
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The Onion calls the election
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- Friday 29th August 2008
My apologies if you’ve already seen this, but in case you haven’t…
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election…
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“I care a lot more about the process than I care about the victory.”
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- Thursday 14th August 2008
Stephen Spoonamore has a rather impressive resume as a computer security expert (and the last line of the resume is funny).
He’s a Republican. He worked on the 2000 McCain campaign, Bloomberg’s campaigns, and Giuliani’s campaigns.
He thinks that electronic elections are completely fraudulent, and that every national (and many state) elections between 2000 and 2006 were stolen by…
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Star chamber trials, now with U.S. branding
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- Thursday 7th August 2008
Hamdan has been found guilty in a military trial at Guantanamo. His defenders couldn’t question certain witnesses, hear certain testimony, see certain evidence, or ban confessions obtained during, after, or under the threat of, torture.
As Scott Horton wrote in Harper’s:
When the Founding Fathers looked for a model that reflected the abuses they objected to-in short what they intended to…
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The return of a useful website
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- Monday 4th August 2008
After an absence of many months, The Memory Hole – “rescuing knowledge, freeing information” – is back.
Sort of like a Smoking Gun, but about stuff that…
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Lessig keynote address at netroots nation last week in austin, TX.
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- Thursday 31st July 2008
Excellent talk to the blog army about how money changes outcomes and erodes trust in supposedly impartial processes.
The presentation is up to the usual blazing Lessig standards, with a few new details: a black jersey a la the Dynamic CEO Style (Jobs, etc.), and more overt politics and cheerleading.
Sound is very low, and, along with the video, is occasionally dodgy….
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News website worth checking on a daily basis
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- Thursday 31st July 2008
With traditional newsroom budgets shrinking under pressure from the investment community and corporate owners, there’s a quiet crisis in the world of newsgathering.
Even if there’s a reporter with the time and intelligence available to do investigative reporting, and an editor who can find the money to sustain an investigative project (all of this highly unlikely at most papers and other…
