It is a sign of their wrong path that party strategists are holding onto the same identity politics they have used since the 1960s to divide Americans into hyphenated special-interest groups.
Der 44. US-Präsident ist gewählt. Was kann die Welt erwarten? Der Schlüssel zum Verständnis liegt in seinem Wesen. (Kommentar von Christoph von Marschall)
I wasn’t going to do this, but then someone ask me to do it, and someone else told me (to my horror – not that it would be insane for anyone, but insane for her) that she was for Clinton. So consider this my precinct captain duty for the lessig blog.
A look at the policies of Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama reveals that the candidates have actually laid out two competing economic philosophies. The fight over health insurance is just one part of their disagreement.
We are currently in the first phase of the project, with the goal of creating scrapers and flat data files for each of the fifty States
Major goals and phases
1. Collect URLs of State Legislature and Legislative Information Pages
2. Grab legislators and legislation
1. Build scrapers and obtain data files for legislation in each of the fifty states
2. create sponsor relationship between legislators and legislation
3. Grab votes
1. Build scrapers and obtain data files for legislator votes on legislation
2. create voting relationship between legislators and legislation
4. Build tools on top of data
The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. The name Copperheads was given to them by their opponents, the Republicans, because the venomous, although not usually deadly, copperhead snake can strike without warning (unlike a rattlesnake). They were also called "Peace Democrats" and "Butternuts" (for the color of the Confederate uniforms). Perhaps the most famous Copperhead was Ohio's Clement L. Vallandigham.
And if this doesn't work, please google "wikileaks".
Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis
Gordon's "journalism" here is useless as a source of information, but it does offer a glimpse into what the Bush Administration wants the public to ponder as it methodically constructs a pretext for attacking Iran. Gordon's article consists of thirty-four
PR-Profis sind Meister im Verdrehen von Fakten: Ob Klimawandel, Arbeiterrechte oder Irak-Krieg - in den USA werden jährlich zig Milliarden Dollar für Meinungsmanipulation ausgegeben, sagt PR-Kritiker Stauber im SPIEGEL-Interview - und erklärt die gäng