January 26, 2007 – 7:50 pm
The Boise Weekly has an excellent opinion piece that recaps just how bad our current health care system is.
January 4, 2007 – 6:19 pm
As evidence, a thread from Daily Kos. Brian Nelson’s explanation for how Sen. Barack Obama’s picture got paired with a caption that read “Osama bin Laden” on the front page of Yahoo! News is perfectly reasonable. Yet nearly no one who replies in that thread actually believes him. It’s absurd, and sad.
January 3, 2007 – 8:07 pm
Tomorrow, this country’s first Muslim congressman will be sworn into office, using a Quran. But not just any Quran: Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, will use a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson during his ceremonial swearing-in Thursday. The chief of the Library of Congress’ rare book and special collections division, [...]
November 17, 2006 – 9:35 pm
Protect Marriage Arizona has given up any hope that the continued counting of the early ballots would miraculously make Proposition 107 pass. Arizona is now the first state in the nation to defeat a constitutional amendment to define marriage as only a union between one man and one woman. A statement issued by Protect Marriage [...]
November 2, 2006 – 11:15 pm
Dust off your winmodems, it’s time to subvert democracy! The phone modems are turned on at 7:00pm on election day allowing the precincts to report totals. This phone communication method is fundamentally stupid. It opens the “crown jewels” (the central database of votes) to outside manipulation by anybody who has that phone number, often NOT [...]
October 15, 2006 – 10:13 pm
I received my early vote-by-mail ballot the other day, and here’s the side that is completely dedicated to propositions. All 19 Arizona state props made it to the ballot, plus one local to Pima county. I thought for a moment about just voting no on all of them in a sort of protest against propositions, [...]
September 30, 2006 – 9:11 pm
Unbelievable. How do I put this in words as clearly as possible. If the U.S. government decides, for reasons of its own, that you are an “illegal enemy combatant,” i.e. that you are someone who “has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States,” they can detain you [...]
August 24, 2006 – 10:55 pm
Go read the entirety of Bruce Schneier’s opinion piece on What the Terrorists Want: But our job is to remain steadfast in the face of terror, to refuse to be terrorized. Our job is to not panic every time two Muslims stand together checking their watches. There are approximately 1 billion Muslims in the world, [...]
August 18, 2006 – 12:29 am
From today’s ruling: In finding that the NSA program of intercepts of domestic communications is also unconstitutional, the judge remarked: “The President of the United States, a creature of the same Constitution which gave us these [First and Fourth] Amendments, has undisputedly violated the Fourth by failing to procure judicial orders as required by FISA, [...]
According to the cover story of this week’s Tucson Weekly, there could be 19 propositions on the Arizona ballot this November. You’d think this was California! Since it’s proven successful in bringing Republican voters to the polls in other red states, we’ll have to vote on an amendment to the state constitution that would ban [...]