Want to express what you think Obama should do when he becomes President? You can go to White House 2 and make a list of what you would do if you were President.
The website owner plans to present this to President Obama, and it would be great to have some conservatives weighing in over there. [...]
An open letter to Sarah Palin
Dear Mrs. Palin,
Speaking to you American-to-American, average Jane-to-average Jane, woman-to-woman, and mother-to-mother (in exactly that order), I do indeed think you cost Mr. McCain the election to the position of President of the United States of America. I’m not saying you’re entirely to blame, dear, but you were a very [...]
It’s educated vs uneducated now.
We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images [...]
20 tasks now that the election is over, by Robert Waldrop (who not only is the president of the Oklahoma Food Co-op, but a friend IRL):
Now that the election is over, it is time to go to work.
If you are happy about the election, the ideas below will help you do your part to heal [...]
McCain’s concession speech last night was very classy. I wish he would have given those kind of speeches when he was running his campaign. He didn’t have that whine or the fake dad-trying-to-act-cool mannerisms that made him seem bumbling and wimpy rather than statesman-like.
He almost seemed relieved to have it over with, to tell you [...]
I got to my polling place at 8 am after dropping the kids off, and for the first time ever there was A LINE to vote. Not just a few people — this line stretched down two halls, out the door and all the way down the sidewalk. There must have been at least a [...]
If you have early voting, go do so to beat the rush! Our early voting opens today at the county courthouse.
Here’s some tips taken from an email I got today from ColorOfChange.org (yeah, they’re probably liberal, but I didn’t get anything like this from our party):
Vote early to beat the lines.
Double-check your polling location before [...]
Get out the popcorn, the blaming has begun.
Total party implosion, anyone?
The sad part of this is that some people are blaming McCain. He got the nomination by being who he was, then the party by all accounts pressured him to change things.
Colin Powell speaks out about McCain’s campaign, and why he’s endorsing Obama
If you watch the video I’ve linked to, General Powell references three major issues with the McCain campaign: McCain’s inability to show leadership on and understanding of the problems facing 21st century America; his lack of judgment in picking his vice presidential candidate; [...]
Former Representative Jim Leach (R-Iowa), speaking at the Democratic National Convention (8 minutes, YouTube, safe for work/children)
As someone who enjoys historical discussions, I think his analysis of the four major philosophical debates of America’s history is spot on. The environmental party used to be the Republican one, and we’ve strayed from more than protecting the [...]
Class war, populism, and Republicans
… I was won to the conservative side by ideas and intellectuals.
Now things are different. Now it’s the conservatives who have ossified, and who have become largely defined by retrenchment around resentment. When I wrote “Crunchy Cons,” I was gratified by the fellow conservatives who wrote to say how much they [...]
Since we already know who I’m not voting for (either of the top dogs … personally, I like Obama a lot, but not his policies), I went and found the platforms of the other three parties running for president (in order of how much I like them):
Libertarian Party
Constitution Party
Green Party
I would encourage everyone to read [...]
Because that implies we’re not independent, and considering the matter, I tend to agree.
Take a look at this article: Why “Drill, Baby, Drill” does not translate into effective national energy policy . Lots of good information, but the key to the issue lies right here:
[...] the faster we use up the little oil we have [...]
Newsweek has a commentary up on Sarah Palin that I found interesting. If you can get past the blatant attacks on religion (the man comes out front and says he’s an atheist), you get to a statement that sort of sums up what’s wrong with the way we choose a President:
Ask yourself: how has “elitism” [...]
I’ve found this site instead: On The Issues
Here they have all the candidates, with how they stand on the issues, as well as a quiz that matches you with the candidate whose beliefs are closest to yours.
Want to know if something said in a political ad is true? Go to FactCheck.org, where both sides are put under the microscope. There’s a video that summarizes the findings for the week up in the left corner, if you’re short on time.
I’ll tell you why.
(If you trigger easily, you might want to skip this. It’s ugly.)
Let’s pretend that one day your wife doesn’t come home. Maybe she was going to the grocery store, or on her way home from work, or on her way to pick up the kids. It gets later and later, and you [...]
Here’s an article I just ran across: No Hope for a Sensible Energy Policy
THERE IS A REASON I chose “Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here” as the subtitle of the study of energy policy I just completed under the auspices of the Washington-based Hudson Institute. That reason: decades of listening to politician leaders [...]
I honestly still don’t know who, if anyone, I’m going to vote for.
McCain’s speech (what I heard of it so far) didn’t really excite me. (in the interest of full disclosure, I had a headache, had taken allergy medicine, and fell asleep through part of it; I’m going to find it on YouTube and listen [...]
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