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Category Archives: Politics
Liveblog: TACD IP conference
As part of my New Years’ resolutions, I want to blog more about events that I attend. Today’s (I think — my brain isn’t working 100% yet this morning) the first event I’ve been to this year, I’ll start here. … Continue reading
Obama on public financing: a “broken system”
See the video where he explains why the campaign is opting out of public financing. With this kind rhetoric, Obama might be setting up to move on campaign finance reform early in his administration…
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Why the Democrats should pass campaign finance reform in ’09
My friend Nelson Pavlosky and I were watching Larry Lessig’s speech at the National Conference for Media Reform — a barn-burner refrain of his recent talks on corruption. Nelson mentioned that Lessig has been affiliated with the Obama campaign, and … Continue reading
Everybody4
There’s a certain irony in the fact that Lessig and Berman have endorsed the same candidate.
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Now blogging @ Florida Progressive Coalition
Florida Progressive Coalition is a group blog about politics in Florida from a progressive perspective. I recently started blogging there. My posts so far: Florida fails the working poor Progressive messaging from… the Chamber? To follow my future posts, grab … Continue reading
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Obama now organizing in Florida
I heard an interesting item tonight: now that Florida’s primaries are over, the Obama campaign is coordinating with its supporters in Florida. Apparently, the campaign asked supporters to host election night house parties on the evening of the March 4 … Continue reading
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(Don’t) Draft Lessig [UPDATE: Yes, do]
Update: The premise of all this is made irrelevant in the announcement video posted at lessig08.org. The campaign to draft Larry Lessig to run for Congress in California’s 12th district has grown markedly since I first blogged about it. The … Continue reading
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Echoes from history: W. J. Bryan v. evolution in Florida
Florida is in the midst of a hullabaloo about whether to add evolution explicitly into the state’s teaching standards for science. Sadly, there is opposition, and as you might expect, most of the opposition appears to be premised on religious … Continue reading
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