H.R. 3 is trou­bling enough, but H.R. 358 takes the debate to a whole dif­fer­ent level.

Posted on February 14th, 2011 by Sky
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Dis­guised as anti-abortion leg­is­la­tion, H. R. 3 raises legit­i­mate ques­tions about the true intent of its sponsors.

Posted on February 14th, 2011 by Sky
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Sit­ting U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Joe Bar­ton (R-TX) today apol­o­gized to BP, appar­ently on behalf of him­self, for the $20 bil­lion dol­lar escrow account that the Admin­is­tra­tion has just set up for Gulf Coast dam­ages and recov­ery. In a con­gres­sional tes­ti­mony with BP exec­u­tives he said: I’m not speak­ing for any­body in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives but myself. […]

Posted on June 17th, 2010 by Sky
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Here is how the grass­roots works. In Maine yes­ter­day, an orga­nized bloc of tea-bagger del­e­gates to their state repub­li­can con­ven­tion over­whelm­ingly voted to scrap the pro­posed GOP party plat­form and replace it with their own version[1], writ­ten by a group called the Maine Refounders. The new plat­form raises many dis­turb­ing issues. Rather than tear into […]

Posted on May 15th, 2010 by Sky
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Here’s an inter­est­ing wrin­kle on the bank bailouts.

Posted on April 16th, 2010 by Sky
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I have a con­fes­sion to make. Zen Potluck was never sup­posed to be about pol­i­tics. Visit my About Page and you’ll read my sim­ple pledge to talk about sus­tain­able, con­scious liv­ing, and yes, maybe even food. You see, my part­ner and I like to cook and break bread together. Regard­less of sched­ules, we man­age to commune […]

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by Sky
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Tonight I wrote the fol­low­ing in a dis­cus­sion thread on one of the main­stream media web­sites cov­er­ing the Mass­a­chu­setts sen­ate elec­tion. Thank­fully, direct feed­back has been mostly pos­i­tive and con­struc­tive, which is a hopeful sign.

Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Sky
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A friend sent me this chain email today: Pro­posed Amend­ment #28 to the US Con­sti­tu­tion Con­gress shall make no law that applies to the cit­i­zens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Sen­a­tors and/or Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, and Con­gress shall make no law that applies to the Sen­a­tors and/or Rep­re­sen­ta­tives that does not apply […]

Posted on December 31st, 2009 by Sky
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I will let yesterday’s Ed Schultz inter­view with Alan Grayson (D) — Florida speak for itself, except to note two things. First, Rep. Grayson pre­sented facts to sup­port his argu­ments, and sec­ond, he did this within proper House floor guide­lines. The lat­ter is impor­tant, because the right wing cur­rently is try­ing to link Grayson’s prepared […]

Posted on October 2nd, 2009 by Sky
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Dear Pres­i­dent Obama, In pon­der­ing the lunacy of the teabag­gers, it dawns on me that they’re send­ing you teabags only because in 2009 they can’t board a crusty old frigate in their knot­ted knick­ers and pasty old wigs to hurl bales of raw tea leaves into Boston Har­bor. Although they’d like to. That’s kind of funny. I […]

Posted on September 14th, 2009 by Sky
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