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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
Swiss Votes to Use 'Unbreakable' Code {voting machines}
Post Date: 2007-10-13 10:48:32 by Zipporah
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Swiss Votes to Use 'Unbreakable' Code By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press Writer GENEVA (AP) -- A new "unbreakable" encryption method will be keep votes safe for citizens in the Swiss canton (state) of Geneva in the country's upcoming national elections, officials said Thursday.The city-state will use quantum technology to encrypt election results as they are sent to the capital on Oct. 21, said Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva.A computer in Geneva, provided by the company id Quantique, will fire photons, or particles of light, down a fiber-optic link to a receiver 62 miles away.If anybody wanted to eavesdrop on the line, they would need to intercept the ...
Rep. Regula Joins Growing List of Retiring Republicans
Post Date: 2007-10-12 19:56:42 by Brian S
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Republican Rep. Ralph Regula, a veteran appropriator and dean of the Ohio delegation in the House, announced Friday that he will retire at the end of this Congress. He is the 13th House member, and 11th Republican, to announce plans to depart then. (The two Democrats in the group are running for the Senate.) Five senators, all Republicans, also are retiring. Regula, 82, was first elected in 1972. He has served longer in the House than all but one other Republican — Florida’s C.W. Bill Young, with whom he serves on the powerful Appropriations Committee. Regula, a member of the committee since his second term in Congress, currently is ranking Republican on its Financial Services ...
The Hamiltonian Ground
Post Date: 2007-10-12 10:22:22 by robin
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October 12, 2007 Op-Ed ColumnistThe Hamiltonian Ground By DAVID BROOKS Alexander Hamilton was an ambitious young striver and created an economy where people like him could rise and succeed. He used government to rouse the energies of the merchant class, to widen the circle of property owners and to dissolve the constraints on commerce and mobility. Abraham Lincoln was another ambitious young striver. As a young politician, he championed roads, canals and banks so enterprising farm boys like himself could ascend and prosper. While he was president, the Republican Party passed the Homestead Act, which gave people access to property they could enrich and develop. It passed the Land Grant ...
Nobel Prize likely to increase pressure on Gore to run
Post Date: 2007-10-12 10:14:17 by robin
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Nobel Prize likely to increase pressure on Gore to runStory HighlightsAnalysts predict Al Gore will resist pressure to run for president in 2008One Gore confidant says former VP doesn't want to battle Sen. Hillary ClintonPoll shows 13 percent of Democrats want Gore for their party's nomineeDraftgore.com ran ad this week in The New York Times urging him to run(CNN) -- Political analysts expect that Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize win will increase the pressure on him to run for president.But those who know him well predict he'll resist the pressure and stay out of the race.The former vice president and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the ...
Pink Elephants on Parade
Post Date: 2007-10-10 19:41:14 by Zipporah
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we are all mark foley now dept. Pink Elephants on Parade The RNC is trying to capitalize on that whole “pink sports apparel for ladies who pretend to like sports” thing by selling their own brand of offensively “feminized” Republican merchandise. They call it “Pink Elephants,” which manages to suggest both homosexuality and DTs-induced hallucination. Great job guys!RNC Store
National Fundy “Pro-Marriage” Group Strong-Arms in Tiny State Races
Post Date: 2007-10-10 18:49:28 by Zipporah
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Talk2Action: …a billboard went up over I-91 near the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield — comparing Democratic state Rep. Angelo Puppolo to Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold. At issue is Puppolo’s vote last June not to allow a state constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage to appear on the ballot in 2008. …”Tactics like this reinforce my belief that I did the right thing,” Puppolo told The Springfield Republican. “I voted to keep discrimination off the ballot and out of the Massachusetts constitution.” This group is what Talk2Action calls “the long arm of Dobson.” They’re “Focus on the Family” funded, and they ...
All eyes on Ontario
Post Date: 2007-10-10 00:04:01 by kiki
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Will Ontario usher proportional representation into North America? Welcome to readers from south of the border. All eyes in the electoral reform movement are on Ontario, Canada which is set to vote on a referendum to change its voting system on October 10. Several multi-partisan citizens coalitions have pulled out all the stops to mount public awareness and advocacy campaigns for mixed member proportional representation - or MMP for short. Nor are the party old guards taking this lightly because their ability to manipulate the voting system to their benefit is threatened. Background Ontario has a parliamentary system. There is an elected legislature. October 10 is also the date of the ...
MSNBC Poll on Michigan Republican debate [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-10-09 18:30:51 by JiminyC
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21209617
Romney Is His Own Biggest Campaign Donor
Post Date: 2007-10-06 08:51:26 by Zipporah
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Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, speaks during a campaign stop at MaryAnn's Diner in Derry, N.H., Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007.(AP Photo/Jim Cole) Romney Is His Own Biggest Campaign DonorBy JIM KUHNHENN – 11 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney once said financing his own campaign would be a "nightmare." Writing checks, he said this week, is "painful." It doesn't seem to be stopping him. Romney is his presidential campaign's most generous supporter, lending $17.5 million from his personal fortune so far. His Republican rivals are bracing themselves for him to do it again. And again.Romney is hardly the first ...
Log Cabin Republicans Attack Mitt Romney In New Ad
Post Date: 2007-10-06 08:36:12 by Zipporah
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Via TPM: (h/t BillW) This is just too funny. The Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group, is running a new ad in Iowa that seeks to undercut Mitt Romney’s standing with social conservatives by praising his past record of doing battle with conservatives on social issues when he was governor of liberal Massachusetts. The ad pretends to be praising Romney by highlighting Romney’s record fighting on behalf of liberal issue positions against conservatives — whose support, of course, he needs right now as he seeks to win Iowa and other states in the GOP Primary. To do this it uses quotes from his past ads and clips of him declaring his social liberalism during debates when he ...
Revolution in Jesusland: building bridges between progressives and born-agains
Post Date: 2007-10-05 19:16:05 by Zipporah
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Zack Exley, one of the smartest progressive online activists I know, has been maintaining a blog called "Revolution in Jesusland," about the evangelical resurgence, with an emphasis on bridging the gap between progressive activists and evangelicals. This is a laudable effort, and Zack's tackling it with wit, humility and a great deal of intelligence. First, progressives will never achieve their goals as long as they are hostile toward and ignorant about the faith of 100 million of their own people who are born again Christians. Second (and we know how difficult this is to believe) there is an incredibly large and beautiful social movement exploding among evangelicals right ...
Clinton Strategist Represents Blackwater
Post Date: 2007-10-05 18:34:17 by scrapper2
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Mark Penn is the chief strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, working 24/7 on her behalf (indeed, he is known to send email at 2 a.m.) and earning tens of thousands of dollars in fees. With that sort of day-and-night job, you would think Mr. Penn would have time for little else. Indeed, other Clinton senior advisers took leaves of absences or turned down clients in order to work for the campaign. But he somehow manages to remain president of Burson-Marsteller, a publicly traded global public affairs firm. And as such, he is inevitably linked to Burson’s clients — not all of whom are, shall we say, on Mrs. Clinton’s Christmas card list. Today we ...
Confusion in New Hampshire
Post Date: 2007-10-05 15:28:51 by ghostdogtxn
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Is Rudy Giuliani the Republican Oprah?
Post Date: 2007-10-04 19:19:54 by Zipporah
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Is Rudy Giuliani the Republican Oprah? He’s back! He is also running out of material, but out of a sense of duty here’s the latest Abrad 2008 Join Rudy video, this time focusing on such important problems as Obama being Irish and/or a Kennedy, and Hillary not being black enough to win.The Republican Oprah? [YouTube]
Mitt to Beg Voters to Overlook His Scary and Confusing Religion
Post Date: 2007-10-04 19:14:59 by Zipporah
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Mitt to Beg Voters to Overlook His Scary and Confusing Religion 28% of Americans refuse to vote for a Mormon, which poses a problem for Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Because unlike black people or New Yorkers or any number of the other groups of people who won’t vote for Mitt, most of those 28% are probably Republicans. And Mitt gets harassed about his nutty beliefs and magic pajamas by yahoos like us everywhere he goes, when he’d much, much rather talk about how none of his sons are gays and how we need to save all the stem cells from Osama bin Pelosi. According to Robert Novak, Romney has no idea how to deal with the Mormon thing, which is why he keeps ...
RON PAUL ON ABC NEWS
Post Date: 2007-10-04 17:18:56 by Artisan
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Obama defies Reid, blocks Bush FEC nomination
Post Date: 2007-10-04 16:38:07 by Mekons4
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BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 10/4/2007 11:09AM Obama Blocks Vote on Von Spakovsky in Senate! Stops Harry Reid's 'Deal' to Move Forward with GOP 'Voter Fraud' Zealot's FEC Nomination... A Democrat does the right thing for a change! What are the odds these days? And will it hold? Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama (D-IL), had recently (and correctly) called on Bush to send up an "acceptable" nominee to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), instead of the anti-Democracy, anti-voter villain Hans von Spakovsky. "His record of poor management, divisiveness, and inappropriate partisanship makes him an unacceptable nominee to the FEC," ...
Domenici has brain-wasting disease (that figures)
Post Date: 2007-10-04 09:49:43 by Mekons4
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N.M. senator Domenici to retire over brain disorder By DAVID ESPO Associated Press TOOLS Email Get section feed Print Subscribe NOW Comments Recommend WASHINGTON — Sen. Pete Domenici is retiring after a generation as a dominant Republican voice on budget matters in Congress, deferring to health concerns after six terms in office. A draft statement prepared for Domenici's formal announcement today disclosed that the 75-year-old New Mexico Republican has a progressive disease that can cause dysfunction in the parts of the brain important for organization, decision-making and control of mood and behavior. "The progress of this disease is apparently erratic and ...
Sen. Domenici to retire from Senate
Post Date: 2007-10-03 17:12:30 by Mekons4
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Sen. Domenici expected to retire. The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza reports that Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) is “expected to announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate in 2008.” Domenici continues to be “dogged” by questions about his role in the U.S. attorney scandal and the ouster of David Iglesias. The stampede for the door continues.
Does Mitt Romney Know What "Civil Liberties" Are?
Post Date: 2007-10-03 12:31:16 by Artisan
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ROMNEY: "DON'T FORGET. THE MOST IMPORTANT CIVIL LIBERTY I EXPECT FROM MY GOVERNMENT IS MY RIGHT TO BE KEPT ALIVE" civil liberty One entry found for civil liberty. Main Entry: civil liberty Function: noun : freedom from arbitrary governmental interference (as with the right of free speech) specifically by denial of governmental power and in the United States especially as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights -- usually used in plural - civil libertarian noun or adjective http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=civil+liberty
Whoopi Goldberg: Pelosi Admirer Extraordinaire (Offers To Do Threesome)
Post Date: 2007-10-02 19:51:00 by Horse
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Sure, politicians always appreciate a warm welcome when they appear on daytime TV talk shows. But the welcome House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got today on ABC's chick TV show "The View" was more than warm - it was downright steamy. Even before Pelosi walked on stage to take her seat at the round table, the show's moderator, Whoopi Goldberg, and its co-hosts - with former news anchor Barbara Walters leading the pack - started flirting with the speaker's husband, Paul, who was seated in the front row. "You wanna take a look at Nancy Pelosi's handsome husband?" Walters asked the audience. Yes, came the answer in the form of whooping and hollering. Poor guy ...
To win (Ron Paul)
Post Date: 2007-10-02 14:16:48 by Peppa
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To win Our goal is to win. We have 96 days, maybe less. We have one shot. ***** Yesterday afternoon, the Ron Paul 2008 staff came together to hear that message. I shared it with them then. I share it with you now. Our goal is to win. Ron Paul wins the Republican nomination. Ron Paul becomes our next president. We have 96 days, maybe less. The first contest will be January 5 in Wyoming. But Iowa will change its date to be earlier than Wyoming and New Hampshire will do the same. Michigan will hold its primary on January 15. South Carolina and Nevada are set for January 19, followed by Florida on January 29. We have one shot. The time is right for this Ron Paul Revolution; there are ...
Time to Boycott Voting
Post Date: 2007-10-02 13:27:18 by statusquobuster
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Time to Boycott Voting Joel S. Hirschhorn After many years of political disappointment, more progressives, liberals and conservatives – and certainly moderates and independents – know in their hearts that voting for Democrats or Republicans is a waste. Just imagine if voter turnout was cut to 25 percent or less! Let the whole world see Americans boycotting a broken and corrupt political system and rejecting what has become a delusional democracy. To keep voting in an unjust political system makes us willing political slaves that the rich and powerful elites exploit. Just leaving the major parties is not good enough and, besides, most Americans are not party members. We need a ...
GOP Is Losing Grip On Core Business Vote
Post Date: 2007-10-02 13:24:47 by Mekons4
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GOP Is Losing Grip On Core Business Vote Deficit Hawks Defect As Social Issues Prevail; 'The Party Left Me' By JACKIE CALMES October 2, 2007; Page A1 WASHINGTON -- The Republican Party, known since the late 19th century as the party of business, is losing its lock on that title. New evidence suggests a potentially historic shift in the Republican Party's identity -- what strategists call its "brand." The votes of many disgruntled fiscal conservatives and other lapsed Republicans are now up for grabs, which could alter U.S. politics in the 2008 elections and beyond. Some business leaders are drifting away from the party because of the war in Iraq, the growing federal ...
Goldwater/Miller 08! You gotta see this
Post Date: 2007-10-02 13:04:33 by Mekons4
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This is great. I've met CC several times (she works in PR) and I met her grandfather three times. Sign me up! Welcome to Goldwater/Miller ’08...the Sequel! “Better late than never,” we say! Our heroes, our grandfather and father, ran for Presidaental and Vice President in 1964, and now we’re making our own fun run for the White House. Why? Well, number one, we want to make a point that today’s Bush administration/Republican party is not something that Barry Goldwater or Bill Miller would recognize. These men stood for something that is sorely missing in today’s political landscape...true honesty. So, let’s be honest, this is clearly just a cheap ...
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