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Moses Kagan
moseskagan.com -Lost in all of the talk about Sarah Palin is the fact that being governor of Alaska is not like being governor of any other state in the country.Alaska draws all of its revenue from the oil & gas industry, to the point where citizens don't need to pay taxes. In fact, each resident of Alaska receives an annual check from the government.This allows the government of Alaska to avoid making painful choices about budgeting. It also means that the governor of Alaska is by d more »
Ryan Barrett
ryanbarrett.typepad.com -I watched Obama’s acceptance speech last night at Vox Populi in Boston, among about 300 other supporters, politicos… and those obvious few who snuck in for the free booze. Funny, I never thought I’d see the day when the patrons... more »
Susie Madrak
susiemadrak.com -Iraq Veterans Against The War:
IVAW members in Denver on Wednesday where they led a march of ten thousand to the Democratic National Convention to deliver a message to Barack Obama calling on the Democratic nominee to endorse the three main goals of IVAW: Immediate withdrawal, full veterans benefits, and reparations for the Iraqi people.
Following a [...] more »
Jane Porter
janeporter.wordpress.com -Home.
That’s where I’ve been for the past 2 weeks, hence the lull in writing as of late.
What a journey though - train from Jyväskylä to Helsinki, fly to Frankfurt, fly to Montreal, bus to Ottawa and after a quick shower, jump in a car and drive to Thunder Bay…. (that last part is a [...] more »
Susie Madrak
susiemadrak.com -From the allergens! I slept on the couch last night while I aired out the paint fumes from my bedroom, but apparently there’s so much dust in the living room, they invaded my respiratory passages and I woke up with a killer sinus headache, the kind where you’d gladly slice away the top front quadrant [...] more »
Mike Boon
www.mikeboon.com -Toronto gets its first scramble intersection today as Yonge and Dundas is now scrambled. That means vehicle traffic stops with red lights in all four directions, followed by a pedestrian free-for-all, where people cross the intersection in any direction they choose: left, right, diagonally.
It's worked elsewhere and I think it's a good idea for intersections like Yonge and Dundas. It's wo more »
Craig Newmark
cnewmark.com -Wherein I plug networked, grassroots democracy, which begins to realize the vision of the Founders, direct democracy. David's the author of the highly regarded memoir Night of the Gun (Michael Smith recorded us.) Part 1 is here. more »
Thomas Hawk
thomashawk.com -ABC News: ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors ABC News has a disturbing report (complete with a video of the incident) where one of their producers, Asa Eslocker, was arrested on a public street while attempting to take pictures of Democratic Senators leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. more »
Susie Madrak
susiemadrak.com -Go read the rest at Joe Bageant’s place. Best damn piece I’ve read in a long time:
“Moving to the Center” is not a move to where the center of public opinion is, but it is a move to the center of where elite consensus is. Once the boundaries of that elite consensus are understood, then [...] more »
Susie Madrak
susiemadrak.com -Hillary Clinton just motioned to suspend the nomination vote and make Barack Obama the nominee by acclamation. He has accepted the nomination.
Somewhere, Maureen Dowd just blew an aneurysm. (As did the rest of the Villagers.) more »
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