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Here’s an interesting visualization called Follow the Oil Money. It shows you the relationships of the presidential candidates to oil money. Very nice.

ExpectMore.gov is a government site that tracks and displays whether or not federal programs are performing as expected. I think this is great, I’ve often said that I wouldn’t mind paying taxes if there was more transparency. These kinds of sites are in my opinion a step in the right direction.

Many have a love or hate relationship with the Ron Paul movement. His vocal supporters, and strict constitutional policy seem to excite some and turn others off. However, what a president like Ron Paul could accomplish would be questionable given the resistence he would probably get from Congress. Seems to not be […]

Politimetrics is a project to use statistical analysis to predict the winner of the 2008 election. As fanciful as that sounds it’s actually quite interesting.

Check out this Interview With Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney On Technology Issues so far it’s the only one that I’ve seen where a candidate has talked about tech issues directly. This of course is of great interest to me. I’m in no way endorsing Romney, but I think it’s important to do all […]

The fact that this administration has gone back and pardoned it itself for any war crimes in the past. They’re bailing out the risky lenders who are causing the sub prime crash due to their ridiculousness, they did manage to get rich though. Oh, and the phone companies are being given amnesty for […]

Congress is entertaining a lobby from the RIAA to pass a bill that would tie federal college funding to universities hunting down digital pirates. Now, let’s not forget that it’s not the job of congress to shill for the corporate scum bags at the RIAA or any other corporation. Let’s put aside the […]

Along with the previous post about readable laws. I found this interesting website as well. SHARP Network is a site to catalog wiki style the positions and statements of presidential and eventually local candidates on scientific issues. The goal is to at a glance be able to determine a candidates position on […]

I found this great project where someone has create a wiki to make the law human readable. No longer do you have to understand legalese, you can just go here and find it in common english. I think it’s a great community project and something that I’d been looking for myself since wading […]

I’ve just finished watching the 2008 South Carolina Fox debate. Seriously, the amount of rhetoric, bullshit and crass racism spewed by most candidates is absurd. Let me list a few for you:
Fred Thompson around 5:30 makes a joke about Iranians meeting the virgins in heaven. Funny Fred, hilarious.
Around 9:10 McCain jokes about […]