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Politics & News Channel Posts

• Obama draws diverse crowd of eager volunteers
  This past Saturday I attended a voter registration drive hosted by Barack Obama's campaign. At 10am the office was packed, with volunteers pouring out the front door. They had to announce [...]
• Burma and the UN
  An angry cyclone pounded Burma last week and left a bitter cloud of despair in its wake. As entire villages now battle to survive, thousands of aid workers sit just over the borders waiting for the [...]
• McSame's Disastrous Economic Policies
  Don't look now, but the Straight Talk Express has derailed again. Lately, the senior Senator from Arizona has been serving up enough whoppers to make the Burger King proud. Surely by now someone [...]
• Civil Unions Inevitable Despite Backward Adherence to Religious Interpretation
  An intersection of personal reading and casual conversation this weekend led me to think again about the issue of gay marriage. I read an article in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine [...]
• World Food Crisis Originating from Multiple Sources
  Everyone who has stayed up late to watch bad movies and old TV shows is familiar with ads from non-profit groups soliciting funds to feed the poor. These commercials use heart-rending images of [...]
• Thrifty Homes
  It's back to the future all over again for the environmental movement. Maybe those Bronze Age architects with their homes of straw and sod had the right idea after all. Indeed modern builders have [...]
• Summer Blockbusters: Reason to Look for Alternative Forms of Entertainment
  I was reading one of The Onion’s AV Club lists about summer blockbusters the other day that made me think about the upcoming crop of bloated, overrated films. The article listed 18 summer [...]
• Lights Getting Smarter
  While oil companies and public utilities continue to seek the Holy Grail of alternative energy, smaller businesses are quietly developing innovative new ways of reducing power consumption. The [...]
• “The Future of the Internet” is the Future of Alternative Media
  I watched some of Tuesday’s hearing in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation about the “future” of the internet. The name of the hearing sounds like it was created in [...]
• The NFL Draft: Another Rich Person’s Stock Market
  I love sports and I am a huge football fan (I grew up in Green Bay so I don’t think I could be anything else.) It is tough to admit to everyone that I spend hours on Saturdays and Sundays [...]