The Case for Kos & Effect: CA-08 in 2010
Yesterday, Master Kos charted a course to the Promised Land, laying down a gauntlet to the Establishment in an inspiring diary entitled "2010 will be primary season". He advocated planning now to...
View ArticleHelp Find Stenchy a Dance Partner (MD-05)
As Kos recently pointed out, a number of old stale Democrats were responsible for the passage of FISA, and he proposed mounting a slate of netroots challengers to take them on in the 2010 primaries....
View ArticleTrivial Epiphanies @ The Revolution
All year long we have been subjected to an unending parade of frivolous, meaningless nonsense masquerading as "issues" in the Presidential campaign. The mainstream media repetitively parrots every bit...
View ArticleMcCain's Assault on Batteries
Sen. John McCain's recent proposal to establish a $300 Million prize competition to develop a new battery package for electric vehicles is actually a lot worse than it looks. This light bit of...
View ArticlePot & FISA: Linked, but Not How You Think...
The 2008 FISA bill which will pass the Senate on Tuesday significantly raises the stakes on the Marijuana legalization front, but not for the reasons that might come to mind. Its not about how...
View ArticlePost-Election "Patriotism in Action"
It's February 1st, 2009. President Obama's historic inauguration, and dramatic address to the nation went off without a hitch. The new Administration has sent cabinet nominations to the 111th Congress,...
View ArticleTinfoil Hats & FISA: Just wait a few years.
In Thursday's widely ignored framing piece ("Pot & FISA: Linked, but Not How You Think...") about the potentially strange relationship between the campaign for marijuana legalization and the long...
View ArticleA Carbon Future: Now 'Up In The Air'
Today's Congress Party victory on the No-Confidence motion in New Dehli got scant coverage in U.S. media, reported more in the business press for its likely trade benefits to the American nuclear...
View ArticlePlatform for "The New Reality" - Part I
The following are conceptual elements being submitted to the 2008 Democratic Platform through Barack Obama's "Listening to America" web utility, and to the 2008 Republican Platform via the RNC's Online...
View ArticlePlatform for "The New Reality" - Part II
Platform for "The New Reality" Part I addressed the path to a new National Environmental Energy Infrastructure, a Science & Technology Policy for Modern America, and Social Justice for National...
View ArticleGidget as Veep: Palin' by Comparison
As a Republican for Obama, I cant help but wince when my old party blunders on, further into the wilderness. Team McCain realized they were in a hole, and handed Grampy a shovel and told him to keep...
View Article3:00AM Phone Calls: You Decide
Because the Obama campaign has been ineffectual [thus far] in attacking McCain (the "he's just like Bush" meme simply isnt working), the public has settled into a comfort zone with the belief that...
View ArticleAn America Flush with Infrastructure: Why They're ALL "Bridges to Nowhere"
In the stampede to bring new infrastructure 'investment' programs onto the agenda of the incoming Obama Administration, Progressives are in the process of being seriously rolled by the Old Left, and...
View ArticleWhither the Poor? Bailing from the Bottom Up...
Amid all of the political pandering to "the middle class", with "middle class tax cuts" and a "Commission on the Middle Class" led by the Vice President, and the whirlwind of rhetoric abuot "helping...
View ArticleWhat's in Vial #3?
Have any other news junkies out there connected these three dots over the last few days?ITEM: Ft. Dietrick, MD - USAMRID (Army germ warfare lab) concedes that three vials of highly infectous viral...
View ArticleMemo to Kundra (CIO) & Chopra (CTO)
[Open letter to the new federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and new federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra]Gentlemen:Below are given 10 specific reccommentations with respect to IT...
View ArticleCybersecurity vs. Human Extinction
The recent White House Cyberspace Policy Review which charts a path for the Administration's high level cybersecurity initiative, incorporated input from all the normal constituencies and stakeholders...
View ArticleLaunch TWITSAT, End Tyranny
The ongoing situations in Iran, China, and elsewhere demonstrate the potential for social networking communications to confront corrupt totalitarian impulses run amok. The problem has been that...
View ArticleReducing Cost in Health Care
Lost in the debate over who to cover with health insurance and how to structure it is any meaningful discussion of how to substantially reduce the costs of these [already bloated and oversubsidized]...
View ArticleHow to Quench the "Obama Backlash" on the Right
As one of those Republicans for Obama (who is still behind the President), I hold a helpful perspective on how the White House, and Organizing for America might act dynamically to quench the rising...
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