Tag Archives: Government & Politics

2009 Feb 26 Thursday

Speech Wars

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Very cool tool that graphs the frequency of words in presidential speeches over time: Speech Wars – State of the Union Addresses, History of Politics

by Jeff @ 6:12 pm

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2009 Feb 26 Thursday

Support for Shepard Fairey (via Signalnoise.com)

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Given the nature of Fairey’s art and his methods of appropriating found imagery, the argument is quite understandable and I’ve read countless valid points on both ends of the spectrum. Obey Giant blurs a lot of lines. Signalnoise.com | The art of James White » Support for Shepard

by Jeff @ 2:00 am

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2009 Feb 13 Friday

secret history of the credit card: interviews: elizabeth warren (via frontline, PBS)

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…bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We’re a nation of debtors. Why do you think people left Europe to come to the United States? They left because they were in debt… frontline: secret history of the credit card: interviews: elizabeth warren | PBS

by Jeff @ 12:57 am

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2009 Feb 06 Friday

Barack’s potty mouth (via April Winchell)

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Ms. Winchell has uncovered some hilarious audio from Obama’s reading of one of his books: Ray, a fellow classmate of Obama’s, was also bi-racial, and also trying to define himself. But what set him apart was his colorful manner of self-expression. Ray cursed like a motherfucker. April Winchell » Barack Obama is tired of your [...]

by Jeff @ 8:50 pm

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2009 Feb 04 Wednesday

Iran to be renamed “Blogistan”

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Iran is blowing up…with blogs. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that Iranian bloggers are mainly young democrats critical of the regime, we found a wide range of opinions representing religious conservative points of view as well as secular and reform-minded ones, and topics ranging from politics and human rights to poetry, religion, and pop [...]

by Jeff @ 10:58 am

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2009 Jan 29 Thursday

Obama’s a Mac guy!

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Awesome!!!!!! x_obama2.jpg (JPEG Image, 811×540 pixels)

by Jeff @ 11:12 am

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2009 Jan 21 Wednesday

Judge OKs 1st suspension in Gitmo cases (via Yahoo! News)

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The first step towards closing Gitmo has been taken. I will try to chronicle the important events that define Obama’s presidency here. The motions, filed just hours after Obama’s inauguration, will be heard in the cases of five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks and of Canadian Omar Khadr, who is accused of killing [...]

by Jeff @ 9:50 am

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2009 Jan 09 Friday

Op-Ed – What You Don’t Know About Gaza (via NYTimes.com)

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NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip. Op-Ed Contributor – What You Don’t Know About Gaza – NYTimes.com

by Jeff @ 11:44 am

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2008 Dec 29 Monday

The People’s Republic of America

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Sounds like a scary title. Sounds so…Chinese. But according to this video, a democracy is the last thing we want in America (ok, second or third to the last thing we want). Unlike we products of public schools, the Founding Fathers of our country knew the difference between a republic and a democracy. That difference [...]

by Jeff @ 5:33 pm

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2008 Dec 27 Saturday

The Buzzwords of 2008 (via NYTimes.com)

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If political buzzwords in 2008 had a temperament, they would be erratic. But enough already. We’re suspending this story to return to Washington immediately. We’re appointing ourselves “buzzword czars,” bent on putting “strict limits” on their use and proliferation. Politicians discussing the economic crisis will be forbidden from deploying that horribly overbaked “Wall Street vs. [...]

by Jeff @ 2:29 pm

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