Politics

Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster

Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:45:20 GMT

Stealing an election, live on CNBC:

Bev Harris, who has been working tirelessly since the passage of the Help America Vote Act to inform people of the dangers present in this new

MassINC - Beyond Red and Blue

Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:04:32 GMT

An interesting look at regional (cutting state lines) voting patterns.

Ishbadiddle: Ten Steps For Taking Back The Country

Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:02:24 GMT

Moving forward after the heartbreak of 2004/11/02.

Jefferson on the "reign of witches"

Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:47:28 GMT

Thomas Jefferson, from a letter he sent in 1798 after the passage of the Sedition Act:

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve,

The Electronic Voting Machine Project

Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:29:52 GMT

A worldwide group of scientists, engineers, political scientists, legal scholars, and voting-rights activists are working on developing a PC based voting machines that will be easier to use, more secure, ... read more

The New Yorker: The Choice

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:22:24 GMT

What a scathing, beautiful indictment of this administration. The New Yorker, hardly what anybody would pick as a liberal / progrressive mouthpiece, shreds Bush's presidency in no uncertain words, ... read more

Top 35 Trends that say Kerry will Take the White House in November

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:36:32 GMT

An interesting and hopeful analysis.

Really Scary: Bush-as-Messiah

Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:09:20 GMT

Ron Suskind's NYT analysis of the "certainty-at-any-cost" nature of the current presidential culture is chilling.

The Lone Star ICONOCLAST endorses Kerry

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:12:48 GMT

Bush's hometown paper, who endorsed him in 2000, is endorsing Kerry:

Four items trouble us the most about the Bush administration: his initiatives to disable the Social Security

LA Times: "Is He a Dope?" (via blog.johnkerry.com)

Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:12:48 GMT

About whom does the op-ed writer ask these questions, do you think?

Does this man think through his beliefs before they harden into unwavering principles? Is he open to countervailing

Here's what happened to the Republican Party

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:18:08 GMT

Garrison Keilor's scathing analysis of the decline of the "party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen" lays out, with considerable punch, what has puzzled me for years: what happened to the ... read more

I, Cringely: Why We Send So Many Americans to Prison and Probably Shouldn't

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:34:24 GMT

Cringley reports a fasicnating (in a horrifying, sick-making way) on the decision of the Department of Justice to bury a study they commissioned back in 1982 on the new federal sentencing guidelines. ... read more

Barack Obama's Speech (washingtonpost.com)

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:58:24 GMT

WOW! What an amazing tour-de-force, aimed squarely at the center of our values.

Thanks to Larry Lessig for the link.

Al Gore: Our Founders and the Unbalance of Power

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 02:54:56 GMT

In a speech to the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, Vice President Gore skewers the unprecedented power grab being perpetrated by the current administration, framing it clearly in terms ... read more