TimesCommunity.com reports on Prof. Colleen Shogun’s research: It used to be that having 50 competitive races in the 435-member U.S. House of Representatives was low, but that number has now fallen into the low teens, noted Colleen Shogun, associate professor of government and politics at George Mason University. Under the current system, incumbents are likely [...]
Karyn Strickler proposes a corporate death penalty (or read a copy with more links) which kills people, but leaves the corporation intact: (emphasis mine) “The Corporate Death Penalty Act could provide that every member of the Board of Directors and executives of a corporation who knew, or should have known about the likelihood of their [...]
What are the Democrats waiting for? How does supporting a liar to retain her high office credentials help convince the country that the Democrats care about telling the truth? A majority of Democrats voted to confirm Condoleezza Rice. If all the Democrats had voted not to confirm her, it would not have changed the outcome [...]
It seems that death, taxes, and criminal corporations are three things you can count on. Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman released another of their annual top 10 criminal corporations lists this year covering just some of the 2004 lot. It appears that Coca-Cola is killing, abducting, and torturing workers and their families in the Colombian [...]
According to their press release, Media Matters for America says there is “No Room for Progressives on Cable News Inauguration Coverage”. They list the few “Democrats or Progressive Commentators” who appeared on TV to cover Pres. Bush’s second inauguration. This is similar to the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) survey which concluded that during [...]
Today, newly-elected Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) voted to endorse the nomination of Condoleeza Rice as Secretary of State. The darling of the Democratic Party cast his vote after it was clear the ‘yeas’ (pronounced “yays”) would have it (and after a couple of ‘yea by proxy’ votes). The final vote from the US Senate Foreign [...]
Groklaw.net says that “Eric Kriss, Secretary for the Executive Office of the Administration of Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has kindly given us permission to share with you audio of his recent speech on Open Formats [...]“. I’m glad to see a warm reception for OpenOffice.org‘s work on OASIS (their upcoming portable and freely [...]
IBM recently made a pledge to what they call “open source software” developers. If you’re new to this concept (or if you think you understand what the term “open source” means), I strongly encourage you to read about the differences between the open source and free software movements. Fellow blogger featherston has commented on the [...]
Read the Socialist Worker‘s interesting article on health care in the US—U.S. health care in Critical condition. Some money quotes: “Real health care reform—not more corporate welfare for the insurance and drug industries—is possible. The evidence lies in the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, a key legacy of the civil rights movement–or Canada’s dismantling of [...]
In a speech to the National Press Club, Sen. Kennedy said “We cannot become Republican clones. If we do, we will lose again, and deserve to lose.” Coverage from Democracy Now! (listen to Amy Goodman read the headline), and CNN. At first, this seems hopeful, as though at least one Democrat gets what progressives have [...]
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