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You absolutely have to have this t-shirt. I don’t care if you’re an Obama supporter, a McCain supporter, or a vegan. It’s hysterical.
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Adding to the count of things to excoriate the Bush presidency over, two more signing statements instructing the executive branch to ignore parts of laws that were passed.
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Too bad Wired didn’t get deeper into the science behind Symphony Hall’s acoustics. I’d love to read a really physics driven discussion of how the hall works.
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All about DisplayPort, the new display technology on Apple’s laptops.
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Programmer as Journalist is a pretty good meme. I’d argue that Dave Winer’s Newsjunk falls into this category.
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Campbell Brown states the obvious: Yes, it’s a smear, and yes, it shouldn’t matter if he were an Arab or a Muslim.
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Christopher Buckley: did he jump out of the National Review, or was he pushed? Whatever. Sounds like the conservative press is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic again.
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The independents are speaking up, and they’re saying, “McCain hasn’t addressed the real issues. He’s only touched on them very narrowly. This is a time when we need to address issues much more clearly than they ever have been in the past.”
Day: October 15, 2008
Voter registration vs. voter suppression
What does it say about our politics that one party regularly tries to engage new voters and the other regularly tries to suppress them? If you believe the complaints from the GOP, they’re just trying to stave off widespread vote fraud. But study after study has shown that there is no widespread vote fraud conspiracy, which surely the Republicans know full well. Salon’s article Behind the GOP’s voter fraud hysteria covers some of the studies, including the fact that from 2002 to 2005 only one person was found guilty of registration fraud, 20 were found guilty of voting while ineligible and five people were found guilty of voting more than once, while the GOP worked to ensure that thousands more were disenfranchised.
And that’s really what the voter fraud suppression efforts are about: disenfranchisement on a massive scale.
Hey, Republicans: how about you go out and register your own voters rather than suppressing newly registered ones?