http://citizenlehew.com/ Political philosophication and whatnot. en-us Copyright 2008 Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:34:36 -0500 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:05:50 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.15 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Well now here's some good news! The first commercial version of a new kind of power plant, called a "Solar Tower", is set to be completed in Australia in 2006. This thing is cheaper than a coal plant with the same power output, and produces no pollution whatsoever! Of course there's no way our energy sector will allow this hippy crap to set foot on our soil, so it really is going to be up to us to push like hell for this. Make a mental note.... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000068.html Journal Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:34:36 -0500 According to a report just released by Rep. Henry Waxman and his Committee on Government Reform posse, there's a significant amount of evidence that the Social Security Administration (which has traditionally been non-political) has jumped into bed with the President to sell his private accounts plan. Who knew? Kevin Drum picks a few choice excerpts from the report which show various SSA literature that had painted a rosy picture of things in 2000, but had became dark and scary by 2004. Which is kind of funny, considering the date for Social Security Armageddon has been steadily pushed out for the... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000067.html Journal Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:24:54 -0500 Senators Boxer, Clinton, and Kerry recently introduced the Count Every Vote Act, a great looking bill which tackles some long-overdue issues in the battle for electoral reform, namely giving felons back their right to vote, declaring Election Day a national holiday, and... wait for it... making verifiable paper trails on all electronic voting machines mandatory. Now I ask you, what red-blooded American wouldn't leap to support this bill?! Let's see, is there anyone out there who would stand to lose if more low-income and minority people were allowed to vote, and then their votes were actually counted? Hmmm, well now... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000066.html Journal Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:16:32 -0500 Just when you thought the PNAC was the hottest cabal in town, it turns out they may have just been hogging the spotlight! Check out these characters: Ever wonder how the right always seems so coordinated in the strategy. How all the multitude of organizations they've created all seem to use the same playbook? How they all manage to focus on the same talking points each day, day after day, year after year. Well it's no accident. But how do they do it? The answer my friends lies in a little known organization with the innocuous sounding name The Council... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000065.html Journal Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:11:10 -0500 "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." - Hunter S. Thompson... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000064.html Quotes Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:54:56 -0500 For the couple of you out there who read my site through an XML feed, I've got some good news and some bad news... The good news is I just added an Atom feed. I'm not sure how that's much better than a good ol' RSS feed, but I figure the more options the better. Anyway, the bad news is that in the process I moved all the feeds into a feeds directory, so that should screw you up nicely.... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000063.html Site Admin Sun, 20 Feb 2005 02:32:43 -0500 I'm not really sure which is worse... the fact that our government has continued unabated it's practice of torturing prisoners in secret gulags all over the world, or that the American people for the most part don't really seem to give a crap about it. I guess David Rees was right:... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000062.html Journal Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:18:28 -0500 Uh-oh! It looks like there may be a little life left in the 9/11 investigations yet, courtesy of Rep. Henry Waxman and friends: We are writing to request that our Committee hold hearings to investigate two extremely serious questions raised by an article that appeared in this morning's New York Times. The first question is whether the Administration misused the classification process to withhold, for political reasons, official 9/11 Commission staff findings detailing how federal aviation officials received multiple intelligence reports warning of airline hijackings and suicide attacks before September 11. The second question relates to the veracity of statements,... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000061.html Journal Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:28:51 -0500 So Karl Rove yesterday, during some sort of troop-rallying speech, once again trotted out the fact that "conservatism is the dominant political creed in America". I've definitely heard that one more than once lately, so just to clear the air I think it's time for the Conservative America Challenge. It goes like this: Instead of always pushing the conservative agenda under the cover of some Orwellian doublespeak or in some other way sugar coating it's true intentions, the latest case in point being the Social Security issue, for this challenge the administration should for once just come right out with... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000060.html Journal Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:04:44 -0500 Even as Bush presses on with his Bamboozlepalooza Tour and the mainstream media does it's best to not "get involved", it has become painfully evident to the rest of us that Bush's Social Security "reform" plan (or at least what's been revealed) is highly suspect. If you want to dig into why, our resident economics terminator Paul Krugman has been on the case (see here, here, here, and here), Josh Marshall has been doing all-star work, as has the rest of the blog community. You can even calculate how much money you're going to lose. But the fact is, even... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000059.html Journal Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:36:14 -0500 So it's official... Howard Dean is now the chairman of the DNC. Hell yeah! As he said today: This was the first race for DNC chairman truly driven by the grassroots of this Party. And so, I want you to know this is not my chairmanship, this is our chairmanship. I really think that Dean "gets it", and I'm really optimistic that this is going to be a red-letter day for the Democratic party. Now we just need to brace ourselves for the right wing smear campaign that you know is coming. The blog community is rallying to support our... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000058.html Journal Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:37:15 -0500 When various lefties stress about the signs of a rising American fascism that's one thing, but when conservatives themselves start joining the chorus it might be time to take notice: I don't think there are yet real fascists in the administration, but there is certainly now a constituency for them --hungry to bomb foreigners and smash those Americans who might object. And when there are constituencies, leaders may not be far behind. [...] [T]he very fact that the f-word can be seriously raised in an American context is evidence enough that we have moved into a new period. The invasion... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000057.html Journal Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:36:54 -0500 Boy, the State of the Union speech last night was a zinger, wasn't it? I think the Rude Pundit says it best: "...the moment when Safia Taleb al-Suhail embraced Janet Norwood, whose son was killed in action in Iraq, resides in a stomach-churning netherworld between revolting and disturbing. It was revolting for its exploitation of the pain of this mother as a political prop for Bush's speech. Byron Norwood, a Marine Sergeant from good ol' Texas, was killed in the destruction of Fallujah. It was disturbing because the media's perception of the hug was such a product of desired delusion:... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000174.html Journal Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:31:06 -0500 "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - Franklin D. Roosevelt... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000173.html Quotes Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:37:33 -0500 Let's make 2005 the year that we demand an upward trajectory. Have a good one, everybody...... http://citizenlehew.com/archives/000172.html Journal Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:57:02 -0500