Truth, Justice, and All-American Allergen-Free Apple Pie
Straight Talk in a Crooked World
In a world rife with bigoted extremists who want to destroy us and our way of life, it is mind-boggling to think that Barack Obama could get voted back into office. I’ve followed politics since I was very young and never before have I seen an administration more shifty, more two-faced, or more inept on […]
Read More Voting AmericanTheĀ nonpartisan website OnTheIssues (http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm) has a quiz that will help match your values with the presidential candidate who most closely represents them: http://www.ontheissues.org/Quiz/Quiz2010.asp?quiz=Pres2012 The quiz makes the distinction between social and economic issues and by clicking on corresponding links you can find out what a particular candidate believes. What a useful tool for undecided voters […]
Read More VoteMatch QuizPeggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal nailed the general feeling of “huh?” I had about the State of the Union speech tonight: a speech about everything is generally a speech about nothing. It was like a huge, fluffy pastry that, once bitten into, was found to be hollow on the inside. I’m still hungry. […]
Read More State of the UnionThis week Law.com featured a brilliant website called MapLight, http://maplight.org/. Don’t let the fact that this came out of Berkeley scare you. MapLight follows the money trails from organizations and corporations to legislators and legislation. In other words, you can see where political contributions are coming from and what they’re intended for. Click around on […]
Read More MapLight(Originally published November 3rd, 2010… and I can’t say the 2011 election has been any better.) Cue the sinister āinvestigative reportingā synthesizer noteā¦ The TV screen oozes forth in black and white, centered on a tilted photograph of a disheveled man in an āIām with Stupidā t-shirt who looks like he just had his eyes […]
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Truth, Justice, and All-American Allergen-Free Apple Pie 