I'm surprised I haven't seen more about OpenCongress in the sites I read. It is one of the better Congressional resource sites I've seen. I can't wait for the next release which will include the ability to tag bills, and...
Posted 03/16/07 @03:12 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I've been researching the PATRIOT Act which naturally leads me back through US history and similar cycles of radicalism. While pausing on the 1920 Wall Street Bombing and the later Palmer raids I came across this excellent quote. Then US...
Posted 03/03/07 @05:19 PM · Feedback (0/0)
A Pew Research study finds Americans are uneasy with mix of religion and politics. However, there is one group that is totally comfortable with religion and politics mixing: White Evangelicals. 60% of White Evangelicals believe the bible should have more...
Posted 08/28/06 @11:29 AM · Feedback (0/0)
William Saletan's article in Slate about the liquid world makes some thoughtful points about our current woes in fighting terrorism. The idea of treating a threat with a 1% chance of success the same as a 95% chance of success...
Posted 08/14/06 @09:38 PM · Feedback (0/0)
My rep Eddie Bernice Johnson voted against Network Neutrality by supporting HR5252. I'm pretty disappointed with her. This bill was sponsored by Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Rep. Charles Pickering (R-Miss.) and Rep. Bobby...
Posted 06/14/06 @07:20 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I received a response to the email I sent to Senator Cornyn's office respectfully asking him to clarify his views on elimination of income tax, institution of slavery, and application of the death penalty for blasphemy, homosexuality, idolatry, heresy, evil...
Posted 04/30/06 @08:18 PM · Feedback (0/0)
All of those little white dots are people marching up Ross Ave. in downtown Dallas. The NYTimes has an article on the march. The Dallas Morning News has great photos of the event, a couple of them by 2004...
Posted 04/09/06 @09:28 PM · Feedback (1/0)
The recent "War on Christianty" conference in Washington D.C. featured some prominent Christian Reconstructionalists. I wasn't fully aware of their agenda. Basically the goal is to institute a new government built around the Old Testament. Things that would be different:...
Posted 03/30/06 @10:26 PM · Feedback (0/0)
GovTrack.us provides RSS feeds of your house and senate representatives. All told you can track People, Subjects and Bills. They also have a General tab that lets you mark other events for tracking that don't fit under the other three...
Posted 01/13/05 @05:37 PM · Feedback (0/0)
Despite the grim picture for progressive politics across the country my new home in Dallas County bucked the trend. Three new Democrat judges, and a new lesbian, Latina, Democrat sheriff. The trend seems to be based on demographics rather than...
Posted 11/03/04 @11:37 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I'm surprised that the country turned out for Bush. I really thought his failures would be clear to the majority of Americans. I'm not clear what's next. When I talk to my mother, who voted for Bush, we see the...
Posted 11/03/04 @11:31 AM · Feedback (0/0)
Jim Gilliam has an extract from a recent Bill Moyers speech. He quotes a huge chunk about the power Dispensationalists have been able to amass. Bill Moyers doesn't use that term in his speech but he's talking about Dispensationalism. It's...
Posted 09/26/04 @11:45 PM · Feedback (0/0)
I continue to be amazed at the uses people keep finding for the Internet. Right now I'm listening to an mp3 stream of live coverage of protests at RNC-NYC put together by anoise. People call in by cell phone live...
Posted 09/02/04 @08:50 PM · Feedback (0/0)
Poll shows Americans still uninformed about Iraq. [a new poll] finds that a large majority perceives the Bush administration making assertions about pre-war Iraq in sharp contrast to the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission and the Senate Intelligence Committee. Eighty...
Posted 08/20/04 @09:21 PM · Feedback (0/0)
Journalists head into the fray to rescue cohorts from Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf. Makes one wish our domestic political reporters had the same kind of guts. Despite Kerry holding a substantial electoral advantage for the last six weeks the...
Posted 08/19/04 @08:11 PM · Feedback (1/0)
The Christian Science Monitor has really done a great job with it's coverage surrounding the war in Iraq. Right now, they are the only Western reporters reporting on fighting in Najaf this week. They've had great, solid reporting for the...
Posted 08/08/04 @10:22 PM · Feedback (0/0)
Since reading a May New Yorker article about Barack Obama my ears perk up whenever I see or hear his name. I was excited when I heard he'd be speaking at the Democratic Convention. Last night he delivered a...
Posted 07/28/04 @07:54 AM · Feedback (1/0)
During the 1980s I grew from 6 to 16. Remembering them now I felt oppressed by the world around me. I followed presidential politics but did not go much beyond that for many of those years. I remember my shock...
Posted 06/13/04 @10:55 AM · Feedback (0/0)
Now here's a blog with refreshing honesty about why they're drawn to public service. I have a "glamour job" on the Hill. That is, I could not care less about gov or politics, but working for a Senator looks good...
Posted 05/21/04 @07:46 PM · Feedback (0/0)
One of the most riveting personal sagas that has played out over the last few years has got to be Michael Newdow's fight to right a wrong. As an Atheist he is looked upon unfavorably by almost 60% of the...
Posted 03/26/04 @07:22 PM · Feedback (0/0)
Somebody was schooled on Face the Nation. I love the part where Rumsfeld says that nobody said Iraq was an immediate threat, show me where someone said that and then Friedman starts in. He reads out part of a quote...
Posted 03/20/04 @09:36 AM · Feedback (0/0)
According to a Zogby poll about attitudes towards the war: "Greatest support is among Republicans (91%-8%), while only 46% of Democrats are supportive and 52% are opposed. Independents support the war 69% to 30%." What kind of automatons make up...
Posted 03/25/03 @01:27 PM · Feedback (0/0)
