Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages

One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to working on ( Read more... )

As I predicted generally in January and more specifically in September, the presidential candidate with the biggest campaign budget won.

The current total numbers from Open SecretsObama: $639,174,281 ( Read more... )

Any thoughts on how an Obama administration changes (or not) the NGO scene?

(I'm looking at you, sarendipatree.)

Whatever happens today, remember that there's not one secret ultrapowerful group pulling strings behind the scenes and playing out American politics like some puppet show of the absurd for its own inscrutable purposes.

There are at least two.

You know what would spur economic growth, create a vast number of jobs, prod our educational system, build hope for the future, and incidentally give us even more military leverage?

A 700 billion dollar bail-out of our space program.

Here's the essential problem I run into when I try to define my political stance ( Read more... )

Going with the working theory that the successful candidate is the one who spends the most money on their campaign, and barring any significant changes in the next couple of months, Barack Obama should handily win the presidential election.

From the Testimony on Campaign Finance Reform back in 2000:
In today's world of media-centered, high-priced ( Read more... )

Poll Republican National Convention

95% of the contested seats will go to the candidate who spends the most money on their campaign.

The presidential election will be won by the candidate who spends the most money on their campaign.

Just like 2004.

1994 NY Times excerpts from a Rudy Giuliani speech, pointed out by mplsfish:

We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a ( Read more... )