Jun
30
Vivek Kundra , federal CIO, and Macon Phillips , White House new media director, unveiled Office of Management and Budget’s IT dashboard this morning at the Personal Democracy Forum Conference in New York City. And the PDF attendees gave him a well-deserved standing ovation. The dashboard was built to monitor more than $70 billion in government information technology spending, showing all contracts within every agency, and is one of the features of the redesigned USASpending.gov , re-l
Jun
30
Pete Martin and Zachary Roth have an excellent piece on how Republican nominees have made the Federal Election Committee disappear. It’s a great example of the kind of story that is too politically loaded for the mainstream media: FEC watchers say the commission’s three Republicans—Donald McGahn, Matthew Petersen, and Caroline Hunter, each nominated by President Bush—are acting out of philosophical opposition to the very idea of regulating campaign money. “It’s the Republican caucus
Jun
30
A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed by David Boies and Ted Olsen, who argued for Al Gore and George W. Bush, respectively, in the historic confrontation over the 2000 Florida recount. They have found common ground in the defense of intellectual honesty regarding the federal civil rights issues caught up in a state [...]
Jun
30
This morning’s Newsday looks at the administration’s move to end the HIV travel and immigration ban, and features insights from Immigration Equality’s executive director, Rachel B. Tiven. From this morning’s story : The federal government moved one step closer to officially ending its long-standing ban on HIV-positive individuals visiting or moving to the United States, a move hailed by gay rights and AIDS advocates Monday. The Department of Health and Human Services wi
Jun
30
By Graham Rae. 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day . “My generation is zero/I never made it as a working class hero” - Billie Joe Armstrong. Let’s face it, Green Day are an unfortunate phenomenon at best. They came to world prominence in 1994, shortly after Kurt Cobain had blown his head off. The kids of America (and, by extension, the rest of the American-electronically-colonized world) needed a bit of comic relief after this grim (or hilarious, depending on your view of Cobain) mus
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