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get out the non-vote

It has started. YouTube – George Allen’s Campaign Attempts to Suppress Democratic Votes. Lets hope that Nancy can add election reform to the already packed agenda. I don’t see it in the The Book, the Democratic Plan for ‘07.

Hacking Democracy

“Hacking Democracy” follows Harris – a middle-aged writer and literary publicist from Seattle who first became interested in voting difficulties shortly before the 2002 race – as she travels the country to sound the alarm about what has become the most talked-about problem in elections, the dangers posed by the paperless electronic voting machines. Harris… Continue reading Hacking Democracy

Bushenfreude

And yet Bushenfreude—the phenomenon whereby high-income beneficiaries of the Bush tax cuts use their windfalls to fund Democratic candidates—is still raging this election season. If anything, it’s more intense than in 2004. Around the country, high earners with million-dollar homes, foreign cars, and fancy jobs, people who have won the meritocratic race, are furious at… Continue reading Bushenfreude

Evangelicals Fear the Loss of Their Teenagers

if current trends continue, only 4 percent of teenagers will be “Bible-believing Christians” as adults. That would be a sharp decline compared with 35 percent of the current generation of baby boomers, and before that, 65 percent of the World War II generation. From Evangelicals Fear the Loss of Their Teenagers – New York Times… Continue reading Evangelicals Fear the Loss of Their Teenagers

Kissinger’s back in the White House

Bob Woodward’s disclosure of the influence of Henry Kissinger on the Bush administration’s Iraq policy both is and is not a surprise. After all, we have known for a long time that the bungling old war criminal has his admirers within the White House. From Slate Magazine Hitchens called Kissinger a gargoyle. I couldn’t agree… Continue reading Kissinger’s back in the White House