tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342462902012-01-16T11:51:53.885-08:00Bobby Abrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854796390864486509noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34246290.post-38018507960581287572012-01-02T19:50:00.000-08:002012-01-02T20:04:58.039-08:00

Last month, Glenn Greenwald wrote a post criticizing W. Gardner Selby's Politifact analysis of one of Ron Paul's recent statements: PolitiFact and the scam of neutral expertise Greenwald pointed to Selby's work as, yet another, example of politically biased sources being cited as "neutral experts". From the blog post: But the real import of PolitiFact‘s analysis is that it relies entirely on

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I spent an amazing three days at the Drug Policy Alliance conference in Los Angeles this month, absorbing a wealth of information about the damage our draconian "War on Drugs" is causing society. The video below was aired during one of the panel discussions, and I thought it was especially effective at personalizing the social costs of these misguided policies. It's a video of someone

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Last August, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, responding to a black caller whose white husband's friends were passive-aggressively mocking her race, said the word "nigger" 11 times. Here's the full audio: Unsurprisingly, it caused an uproar, prompting her to apologize before announcing the end of her decades-running radio program. She insists that she was only trying to make a "philosophical point"

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. Today was the first time I've been screened as a juror. There was only one case being tried at this court today; someone facing several drug related charges. I was the very first juror to be screened, and the prosecutor began the screening. He asked asked me several questions to determine whether or not I'd be able to judge the case, impartially, and eventually asked me if I knew any police

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I just received this e-mail from MoveOn: I wonder if they are going to target Dennis Kucinich... Dear MoveOn member, We won a big victory on health care on Saturday when the House of Representatives passed a bill that includes a public health insurance option. But dozens of conservative Democrats sided with Big Insurance to vote against it. We've got to show that voters will make them pay a

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When it was introduced, Facebook's newsfeed caused an uproar over privacy concerns. Users were initially unable to control what appeared on the newsfeed, and cried foul. A few, though, defended Facebook, claiming the anger overblown because there was no change in information privacy, just a change in information publicity. How people could believe a thing could be made more public without being

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As much as Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve have been mentioned in the news as of late, most people still don't have the slightest idea of how the Fed conducts it's monetary policy. I figured it'd be useful to write up a primer on the topic, so here it is.Nearly all of this information in the rest of this post comes straight from the Federal Reserve's educational website:Fed101There are some

Bobby Abrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854796390864486509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34246290.post-23833221954702522252008-10-24T12:26:00.000-07:002008-10-24T12:29:55.762-07:00

This episode of "This American Life" is a co-production between Chicago Public Radio and NPR news; it goes over the details of just how the housing crisis came to pass in a very straightforward and accessible manner. This is tailor-made for those that have absolutely no background in finance or economics.It's about an hour long, but it's absolutely worth your time. Download it to your iPod and

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Here's yet another amazing, must-see interview from the Daily Show's Jon Stewart Part 1 The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c Douglas Feith Uncut Pt. 1 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealthcare Protests Part 2 The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c Douglas Feith Uncut Pt. 2 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full

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Ron Paul is pro-life. While he is against a Federal ban on abortion, he wants to overturn Roe vs Wade and let each state decide whether or not it should be legal. I'm pro-choice and don't believe any state should have the right to outlaw the procedure. Yet I still support Dr. Paul. I do so for practical reasons as well as on principal.Practical:Roe vs Wade isn't going to be overturned. The

Bobby Abrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854796390864486509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34246290.post-46139234021512687242007-12-26T02:25:00.000-08:002007-12-26T02:34:15.635-08:00

Alonzo doesn't vote.He had better watch out. Diddy's about."Vote or Die!" Diddy cries,"Vote, or you'll be seein' my .45!"So Alonzo reads,and he inquires.The boy's inspired!He runs off! Votes Green!Diddy CAPS his ass.......shrugs Diddy, "He wasted his vote."----------Why do you bother voting? Because an election is supposed to reflect the will of the people?Why do you vote, when your one vote

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Mike Mejia argues that despite Ron Paul's opposition to socialized health care, voting for him would best improve the chances of seeing that goal realized.Ron Paul: The Pragmatic Choice:-)

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Headline!Definition Changing for People's PrivacyThe government is literally spying on us:The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco. Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect a device in 2003 that he says diverted and copied onto a

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A few weeks ago, the Republican Jewish Coalition refused to allow Ron Paul speak at their "Victory 2008 Republican Jewish Coalition Candidates Forum". The reason: He opposes aid to Israel.Does this amount to being anti-Israel? Seeing as how this "U.S. aid" is really just a subsidy for its own defense industry, not at all. So says Israeli libertarian Boris Karpa. Check it out.

Bobby Abrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00854796390864486509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34246290.post-63394277388597874762007-10-27T08:20:00.000-07:002010-03-16T15:19:16.898-07:00

Democrats worry Bush's setting up a war with Iran. And for good reason; this administration has tried to use "diplomacy" to trigger a war at least once before. No joke. In Fall of 2002, Bush made an appearance at the U.N. demanding Iraq be pressured to shutdown its (non-existent) WMD program. U.N. Resolution 1441 was passed to give Saddam Hussein's Iraq one last chance to comply with its "

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Ron Paul has raised $5,080,000 dollars this quarter, which is already earning him a LOT of media attention. Highlights:From Reason Magazine:So he's raised about $8.2 million and spent $2.9 million, a burn rate of around 35 percent. That's a little lower than the burn rate for the frontrunning candidatesFrom the NY Times' The Caucus:On Tuesday, The Hotline, a political newsletter, speculated, “If

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...at least not from their point of view, Justin Raimondo points out.The last three links in his post are 3 parts of a documentary about "the most vulnerable civil rights movement in the world": The Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization. Check it out.

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I usually find bigotry funny. Absurdity is at the root of all humor, and a ranting bigot is nothing if not absurd.Case in point: Here's an excerpt from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial talk at Columbia University:In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country. We don't have that in our country.Really!??I read that quote, looked at a picture of the guy, and realized

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Back in 2006, after details of Bush's illegal wiretapping program were leaked, there wasn't any hope of stopping the President from playing dictator. The Republicans controlled Congress and had no problem watching Bush hack away at our rights. Nevertheless, Russ Feingold (one of the only Democrats with backbone) decided to at least attempt to hold the President accountable. He introduced a

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I'm still friends with undergrads who are in need of stress relief! Bored old people are welcome to participate as well :-)CopterSpearTossMini-GolfSnow TrooperCurveballTennis ChallengeMaze GameSki (no score)

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A quote from this article:We live in a country where thousands of people boycott television networks if they allow a bare breast or question religion. Yet scores of those same people will be eating out of Fox's hand those two nights, when it allows a (alleged) murdering scumbag to promote a book describing how he would've killed the mother of his children. You know, if he really did it. Which he

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Here's a letter I sent to the Hartford Courant (slightly modified for this post):Lieberman's supporters laud him for being one of the few truly bipartisan politicians in our government. Just what does mean for Lieberman to be "bipartisan"? It means not denouncing Bush for deliberately deceiving the public into supporting the war. (Perhaps he feels it was justified?) It means devitalizing checks

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So why are we in Iraq?To get those weapons of mass destruction!Wait no, Iraq's Arsenal Was Only on PaperAnd apparently, this administration was well aware of that months before the invasion, and deliberately deceived the public into supporting the invasion.To stop a dictator who threatened the world!...with his non-existent "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs), and feeble army?So we get rid of an

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