CounselForChange - Lawyers Protecting Voters
The Obama website has information for lawyers who are interested in protecting voters' rights here. If you're in Florida, you can also get more info about volunteering to help at the polls here.
View ArticleMcCain thinks Palin is Nation's Leading Energy Expert
Hat tip to Americablog, who posted about this interview earlier today, and CBS Newsblog who transcripted it. McCain has no energy and little coherence in this interview with Rob Caldwell at WCSH in...
View ArticleSarah Palin: Not Worth the Risk (Our Ad, if we had a 527)
The weekend Sarah Palin was put on the ticket, I posted something in my personal blog, which turned into a project by me and a few of my friends to make an ad that we would love to put on the air, if...
View ArticleMcCain now wants to criminalize embryonic stem cell research
McCain finally answered ScienceDebate2008's 14 questions this past week, and the position he takes in those answers is different from his 2007 position on stem cell research - so different that he now...
View ArticleAverage Americans Think About the Economy Every Day. Why Can't McCain?
Average Americans in large cities and small towns think about the economy every day. John McCain clearly doesn't have to think about the economy the same way that average Americans do.
View ArticleMcCain: "If I were a dictator, which I've always aspired to be..."
Earlier today, Cobalt called our attention to McCain's interview with the Des Moines Register's editorial board. If I were a dictator, which I've always aspired to be, I would write it [the bailout...
View ArticleHey there, Joe Six-Pack
A friend of a friend posted a fantastic exploration of who Joe Six-Pack really is can be on her LiveJournal. Since she doesn't have an account here on DK, I asked if I could crosspost it and she gave...
View ArticleMy grandma called me in tears this morning
My phone rings every morning with a call from my blind 86 year old grandmother, so she can tell me whatever political news she heard on the morning shows and I can add to her information what I read...
View ArticleVoting in South Florida
I went this morning to participate in early voting; there were lines but they weren't terrible, the parking was easy and free (which is rare on South Beach) and my kids helped me throughout.
View ArticleDid you miss the infomercial? Catch it on YouTube
If you don't live in the US. If you don't own a tv. If you weren't home. If you were home, but were busy doing something else. If you were sleeping. If there was a fire drill halfway through. If you...
View ArticleFall Back - But what to do with an extra hour?
Tonight, everyone in North America will get an extra hour, as we turn our clocks back at 2 AM local time. What will you do with that extra hour?
View ArticleWHITEHOUSE.GOV has been updated!
No longer will we have "43" at whitehouse.gov - there is a new era on the web, and its home page is http://www.whitehouse.gov . One of the best things about it? The ethics section. ETA: Thanks to all...
View ArticleHow's that hopey-changey thing working for ya?
My twitterfeed, my facebook, my RSS reader, my blogroll and much of my email has been full of comments - short and long - about tonight's amazing votes and speeches and actions and change. So many good...
View ArticleHow are things at your polling station?
I'm serving as a poll watcher at a precinct that's in a South Florida school. There's no candidates or their supporters with signs outside, which strikes me as weird and somewhat sad, but there's been...
View ArticleUPDATED 3x: No, Sarah. Blood Libel does not mean what you think it means.
If we hadn't seen her act so ridiculously before, I'd say this latest video was inconcievable. I don't know who wrote the speech she read off a teleprompter (it's reflected in her glasses) in the video...
View ArticleMiami-Dade School Superintendent on Trayvon Martin
I wanted to share a portion of the letter that our school superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, wrote to the Miami Herald today regarding Trayvon Martin. You can read all of it on the Herald's website here.
View ArticleGawker Shares Reams about Bain & Romney Fortune
Gawker today posted hundreds of pages of documents allegedly created by Bain Capitol and various related companies that get into details of Mitt Romney's holdings and his fortune. Their main story...
View ArticleRomney: We'll keep the good parts of Obamacare! Updated re Roe v Wade
What Romney just said on Meet the Press: “I’m not getting rid of all of health care reform. Of course there are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I’m going to put in place. One...
View ArticleAmerican Future Fund poll
Just got an autocall from the American Future Fund with a poll - a very simple one about who I'm voting for for president, who I voted for in 2008, and who I'm voting for for Senate - but it had a few...
View ArticlePowell's Endorsement and my 90 Year Old Grandma
Back in 2008, I posted this Diary about my grandmother's reaction to the Powell endorsement. I just got off the phone with her regarding Powell's endorsement on CBS today.
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