Category: Blogosphere

‘New Politics Institute’ Event

I just attended an event hosted by an organization called the New Politics Institute featuring Markos Moulitsas and Joe Trippi. Although both Moulitsas and Trippi focused a bit too much on the Ohio special election, talking about how it had “proved” the power of the new medium, overall it was a good event by an […]

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John Roberts: The Early Years

Oh yeah, John Roberts sounds totally harmless … … He wrote vigorous defenses, for example, of the administration’s version of a voting rights bill, opposed by Congress, that would have narrowed the reach of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He challenged arguments by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in favor of busing and affirmative […]

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Old Content

MY HOSTING COMPANY, HOSTONCE.COM, HAS DELETED MY WEBSITE I do not have a recent backup, so I will be re-creating much of this content from various sources. For news about Washington, D.C. see DCist.com For news about Ann Arbor, MI see ArborUpdate.com In the meantime, here’s the content from the past year from Google’s Cache: […]

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$200 Reward for Recovery Script

My hosting company, Hostonce.com, deleted the mysql database containing the content this blog contained for one year. When I found out this occurred, I saved from Google’s cache all the category index pages from the past year. Your challenge: write a script that will extract from these HTML pages my old posts, and help me […]

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Bill Clinton

I thought Bill Clinton’s speech at yesterday’s Campus Progress conference was the best I’ve ever seen him give. They’ve posted the audio (mp3) and video here. —–

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Purple Line

Ok, I should have blogged this map a long time ago. The Sierra Club advocates construction of a new Metro line to ease traffic and slow sprawl. See their website for more information. —–

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