Category Archives: Politics
Debunking Health Care Lies (by Reading the Bill) — Blog — OpenCongress
At OpenCongress, we’ve had the official text of the House health care bill available online for a month for people to read and get the facts: H.R. 3200 – America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Anyone can easily permalink and comment on any individual section of the full [...]
Mexico’s drug war — The Big Picture — Boston.com
In December of 2006, Mexico’s new President Felipe Calderón declared war on the drug cartels, reversing earlier government passiveness. Since then, the government has made some gains, but at a heavy price — gun battles, assassinations, kidnappings, fights between rival cartels, and reprisals have resulted in over 9,500 deaths since December 2006 — over 5,300 [...]
America’s Best Places For Alternative Energy — Forbes.com
The “cubic mile of oil” – a metric roughly equivalent to the amount of oil consumed worldwide each year – is frequently used to explain the challenge facing solar, wind, geothermal and biomass power.
So what would it take to replace the amount of energy in a cubic mile of oil? Roughly 4.2 billion solar rooftops, [...]
xkcd: Election ...
I actually know the feeling here!
I’m a Christian and I’m voting for Barack Obama on Tuesday (in large part) because of his stance on life issues.
I had intended to write a longer post about how I think a pro-life stance must be holistic, incorporating not only the issue of abortion, but I have not. So I will be borrowing words.
Tim pointed [...]
I started looking up high-fructose corn syrup after those dubious propogandacommercials about how “everything’s OK guys.” (I agree with the poster of the video that it does seem akin to a tobacco commercial.) Turns out it’s worse than I thought.
I knew that import tariffs made sugar expensive and have driven producers to use corn (cheap [...]
Palin hits Obama for ‘terrorist’ connection — CNN.com
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed Sen. Barack Obama’s political relationship with a former anti-war radical, accusing him of associating “with terrorists who targeted their own country.”
Palin’s attack delivered on the McCain campaign’s announcement that it would step up attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate with just a month [...]
NPR: Palin, Biden As Visual Poets
The audio of the debate isn’t music. But, here is a bit of visual poetry based on the candidates’ utterances during the debate via Wordle.
Well, NPR beat me to the idea, but I’m glad someone did it.
For the record, here are McCain’s and Obama’s from last week’s debate.
One wonders whether the Democrats, and Senator Obama, ever had any intention of delivering this bailout, or whether they always thought there was more to gain, politically, from letting the package die on the House floor.
JohnMcCain.com — Where Was the Leadership?
What bothers me about this article is that it doesn’t paint a complete picture.
According to the New [...]
Nate Silver to Republicans: Raise Taxes ...