Please, make sure you vote tomorrow. Vote on your lunch break. Leave work early and vote. Stop in and vote on your way to work in the morning. This is one of the most important elections in history, and every vote counts. Whether you are voting for my candidate (Obama, of course) or not, please [...]
I interrupt this broadcast for this great video from The Daily Show. If you don’t do politics, don’t watch. But I love John Stewart for this type of stuff:
With energy at the top of the political agenda right now, and Americans demanding action from their leaders, the Sierra Club has released a new side-by-side comparison to help its members and the public compare the energy plans of John McCain and Barack Obama. The scorecard examines the candidates’ energy plans in four key areas: [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What are the major environmental issues that our next president, be it Obama or McCain, will have to confront? Global warming is unquestionably the most pressing environmental issue facing whoever ends up in the White House in January 2009. Not only does climate change impact – and in most cases exacerbate – other [...]
I am not taking sides (yea right…go Obama!) but according to Newsweek and Jonathan Alter, Hillary is even closer to losing the nomination now than she was before last night’s “wins”. Why’s that? Hillary Clinton won big victories Tuesday night in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island. But she’s now even further behind in the race [...]
Huh? Well, so says big-time Clinton supporter and surrogate speaker Tom Buffenbarger, president of the machinists’ union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers). From MSNBC: But it was Obama supporters for whom Buffenbarger saved his most vitriolic contempt, and he proved that the Democratic Party”™s coalition is nothing if not fragile. Channeling Howard Beale [...]
Parade Magazine has come out with their list of the Top Ten Worst Dictators again (how does a year go by so fast?), and it looks like the same old faces made the list again. When are these guys going to disappear? And what could be the most eye-opening fact about this year’s list is [...]
