Mending Gabby’s Fences
September 29, 2006
Gabby Giffords’ latest campaign video is causing consternation in some Democratic circles, including one which is a major base of her biggest, and arguably most important supporter, Raul Grijalva. Some immigration rights and Hispanic civil rights activists are concerned that Gabby’s latest ad ‘Safe’ conflates the issue of homeland security to avert terrorism, with
Compromising with Torture
September 28, 2006
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind." – Mohandas Gandhi "There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce
True Majority Calls for Paper Ballot Funding
September 27, 2006
Support emergency funding to the states to print paper ballots in the upcoming election. From a True Majority action alert:"Paperless electronic voting machines will be used once again this fall, and already during the primaries they failed. In Maryland crowds of legal voters were turned away from the polls when the machines couldn’t be started.
Vote For… Hackeneyed Political Moonshine
September 27, 2006
The Ad Council recently released a series of political spots aimed at boosting youth voting. The ads, and an Onionesque companion web site, highlight to superior qualifications for office of several more or less inanimate objects. The ads are just brilliant and deserve some viral love.
Bringing the National Intelligence Estimate to the Districts
September 26, 2006
UPDATE: The Administration is predictably refusing to release anything but a redacted version of the Key Judgments section of the NIE, even while slyly implying through Administration members and proxies that the devil is in the details of the report. They had a pretty good strategy – release selected portions before any pressure to release
Gifford/Graf Debates
September 25, 2006
The campaigns have come to an agreement on debates. There will be six debate with two televised, if you consider Access cable and KUAT to be televised. I’m rather surprised there are so many. I would have predicted 2 or 3, all televised. And I would have packed more of them into mid-October. Should be
Learned Limb Returns Again
September 25, 2006
Learned Limb, Christ’s own Justice, is back with fresh and timely posts on current legal and religious affairs. Shove your toungue in your cheeck and drop in on him.
