Real ID Act
Following up on Miguel’s post about the Real ID act that supposedly is passing through Congress via a clever hack, in fact the Real ID Act is its own act in its own right, and it’s not merely a hidden...
View ArticlePersonal Democracy Forum
Real ID post follow-up I may have been a bit harsh in my last post about Real ID bloggers not pointing people to the text of the legislation. Seems that they were, at least one that Miguel was linking...
View ArticleMedia Collusion
In a market with just a few players, deals between the players should raise eyebrows. If Microsoft and Apple decided to collaborate on a new PC with Mac OS and Microsoft Office all built in, we would...
View ArticleImpersonal Attribution
Continuing my unending diatribe on the mass media, take a look at this headline from Boomberg news: Representative Ney to Plead Guilty in Abramoff Case, People Say Who say, exactly? I mean, thanks for...
View ArticleWhat’s a quote after all?
As usual, CNN seems to have forgotten some journalism basics. Quote marks indicate quotations, right? A clip begins of now-resigned Donald Rumsfeld giving his take on Iraq. He says the war in Iraq was...
View ArticleMeaningful Reform
About a year ago following a few scandals, the House and Senate saw a flurry of Congressional reform legislation get introduced… and then promptly ignored. Finally, however, we may see meaningful...
View Article“State of the Union” Is The Title Of This Post
There’s something funny about the title of this post, and it’s what happened at the start of the State of the Union tonight. (By the way, kudos to MSNBC for posting the transcript, as spoken,...
View ArticleThe Open House Project
(Just here for archival purposes…) On my GovTrack blog: It’s rare when Congress asks the people for help being transparent, and so I’m particularly pleased to announce the formation of The Open House...
View ArticleHave we forgotten how to have an opinion and still be fair?
Maybe it was never true, but I have this sense that we’ve lost something in American public discourse over the last century. We’ve lost the conception of having an opinion and still being fair. It’s...
View ArticleVoting guide for DC’s Democratic Primary on 4/1/2014
Though I’ve lived in DC for getting on 4 years, I still feel lost in local DC issues. So in preparation for tomorrow’s primary, and with the help of some Code for DC members, I collected some of the...
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