It is a sign of their wrong path that party strategists are holding onto the same identity politics they have used since the 1960s to divide Americans into hyphenated special-interest groups.
Der 44. US-Präsident ist gewählt. Was kann die Welt erwarten? Der Schlüssel zum Verständnis liegt in seinem Wesen. (Kommentar von Christoph von Marschall)
I wasn’t going to do this, but then someone ask me to do it, and someone else told me (to my horror – not that it would be insane for anyone, but insane for her) that she was for Clinton. So consider this my precinct captain duty for the lessig blog.
A look at the policies of Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama reveals that the candidates have actually laid out two competing economic philosophies. The fight over health insurance is just one part of their disagreement.
We are currently in the first phase of the project, with the goal of creating scrapers and flat data files for each of the fifty States
Major goals and phases
1. Collect URLs of State Legislature and Legislative Information Pages
2. Grab legislators and legislation
1. Build scrapers and obtain data files for legislation in each of the fifty states
2. create sponsor relationship between legislators and legislation
3. Grab votes
1. Build scrapers and obtain data files for legislator votes on legislation
2. create voting relationship between legislators and legislation
4. Build tools on top of data
The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. The name Copperheads was given to them by their opponents, the Republicans, because the venomous, although not usually deadly, copperhead snake can strike without warning (unlike a rattlesnake). They were also called "Peace Democrats" and "Butternuts" (for the color of the Confederate uniforms). Perhaps the most famous Copperhead was Ohio's Clement L. Vallandigham.
And if this doesn't work, please google "wikileaks".
Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis
Gordon's "journalism" here is useless as a source of information, but it does offer a glimpse into what the Bush Administration wants the public to ponder as it methodically constructs a pretext for attacking Iran. Gordon's article consists of thirty-four
PR-Profis sind Meister im Verdrehen von Fakten: Ob Klimawandel, Arbeiterrechte oder Irak-Krieg - in den USA werden jährlich zig Milliarden Dollar für Meinungsmanipulation ausgegeben, sagt PR-Kritiker Stauber im SPIEGEL-Interview - und erklärt die gäng
he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies.
A nice statistics ahowing how any state where the average iq was above 100 voted for Kerry, and Avery state where average iq was below 99 voted for Bush.
This site is a crossroads for data on the status of legislation, the activities of representatives, campaign contributions and other statistics, and public commentary.
ven starts an illegal war, and then still wins the popular vote by a larger margin then before, what does that tell us. Great nation my ass, we are just all a bunch of red neck bible thumpers
Even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11th, Bush is still engaged in distortion, deception and hiding from you the real causes. .... So I shall talk to you about the story behind those events and shall tell you truthfully abo
After the release of Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore received a flood of letters and emails from disillusioned and angry American soldiers serving in Iraq. Here, in an exclusive extract from his new book, we print a selection
Whether a blog leans left, right or sideways, as a collective force they are working to keep reporters honest. Journalists may not like their methods -- having your work sliced and diced in public is no fun -- but the end result may be better-quality news
A quiet couple in Berkeley got sick of being ignored by the system. So they built a new one. How MoveOn changed the face of fundraising, brought P2P to political advertising, and reinvented grassroots activism.
I\'m declaring September 11 \"International Enough Day.\" Enough flag-waving, enough violence, enough nationalism. Enough already. September 11 was not an American tragedy, it was a human tragedy. It was a tragedy not just for the people in the US who die