Is it unethical to donate money to political campaigns in states in which you do not live?

You can register to vote online on Moveon's websiteAlso, if you live in the Pittsburgh area, the Kerry/Edwards campaign is organizing a round of donations for the flood victims of the area ( Read more... )

Ever since I watched Arnold and Cheney and Bush speak at the Republican national convention, I've been wondering where would the Republicans take us if they won another four years? Given that the original justifications for invading Iraq all turned out to be wrong or blantantly false, they spent a good deal of time during the convention selling the ( Read more... )

Tonight, I watched an excellent Frontline (PBS) episode on the current state of al Queda. I highly recommend that you watch it.

( Highlights and spoliers )

During the RNC, Dick Cheney made some biting remarks which stung at John Kerry's voting record. For example, Cheney said, "During the 1980s, Senator Kerry opposed Ronald Reagan's major defense initiatives that brought victory in the Cold War." However, Kerry had only voted against some of the many, many weapons systems bills that went through ( Read more... )

I need help. I'm turning into a political junkie. I've been watching the Democratic national convention the past few nights. I've even been watching some very dull governors speak...

So far, the best speech was given by Barack Obama. He's a member of Illinois's state senate who is running for the United States Senate. The transcript doesn't do his ( Read more... )

Bush isn't dumb. He's a gifted politician. He certainly didn't get a Republican majority in the House and Senate by good luck. The real problem, it seems, is that he's just not interested in the governing part of being President. Bush is the Justin Timberlake of politics. All style. No governing.

( Excellent analysis from Molly Ivins, a reporter from Texas )

We watched Oliver Stone's JFK the other day. I started poking around the web to attempt to figure out what was fact and what was Oliver Stone's paranoia. I found an interview with Jim Garrison, the only man to ever bring charges in the assasination of JFK.

I think Al Gore has finally given the critique of the Bush Administration that has been brewing in the back of my mind. All of the things he talks about are consistent with what I've read in Paul O'Neill's book, in various news articles over time, and in Richard Clarke's book ( Read more... )

Fuckin' government. The government is after Greenpeace for sailor-mongering - the practice of bringing whores and liquor onto ships to entice sailors to come ashore. No, really. The whole organization is under indictment. Why? No, they didn't have any actual whores. It was because they wanted to stop illegal logging of endangered mohogany which the ( Read more... )