Archive for January, 2009

Site Issues

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Blogging, Technology

We were SLAMMED by reddit today, so my apologies about the site not being accessible. That’s what happens when you get 3,000 page views per hour. In any event, I’m working with our dev team to optimize the site in a variety of different ways so it doesn’t happen again. Thanks for sticking with us.

January 26th, 2009 | Permalink| No Comments »

ReadTheStimulus.org

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Economy, Legislation, Technology

Pretty self explanatory. A site dedicated to searching through all the 1,500+ pages of the new stimulus bill. Here’s a sample… 1/23 Bill Text: PDF/TXT 1/22 Approved Amends: PDF/TXT 1/21 Telecom Amends: PDF/TXT 1/16 Tax Provisions: PDF/TXT 1/16 Health & Insur.: PDF/TXT 1/16 Energy Amends: PDF/TXT 1/15 Committee Report: PDF/TXT 1/15 Bill Text: PDF/TXT Now, [...]

January 26th, 2009 | Permalink| No Comments »

Obama To Let States Determine Emissions Standards

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Cars, Energy, Environment

This should be welcome news for all of you Federalists. From NY Times: WASHINGTON — President Obama will direct federal regulators on Monday to move swiftly on an application by California and 13 other states to set strict automobile emission and fuel efficiency standards, two administration officials said Sunday. The directive makes good on an [...]

January 26th, 2009 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

The Economic Downturn In Ohio

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Economy, Jobs, Video

The following story about DHL from 60 Minutes is absolutely heartbreaking. And people really think we can fix the economy with tax breaks? This is going to get a lot worse.

January 26th, 2009 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

No Case Files Exist For Guantanamo Detainees?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Barack, Bush, Guantanamo Bay, Law

Just when I didn’t think I could be shocked by the previous administration’s decisions… From Wash Post: President Obama’s plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials — [...]

January 26th, 2009 | Permalink| 7 Comments »

Extreme Modernism

By donar | Related entries in Barack, Cartoons, Iran, Islam, Obama, Political Graffiti
January 26th, 2009 | Permalink| No Comments »

Russ Feingold Wants To End Governor Appointed Senators

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Constitution, Democrats, Good Decisions, Law, Senate

I like the idea in theory, but I always thought that Governors replaced Senators because it’s too costly to have special elections and somebody needs to serve in the interim. Still, this seems like the type of amendment that could easily garner bi-partisan support. From Political Wire: The controversies surrounding some of the recent gubernatorial [...]

January 26th, 2009 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

What Obama’s Approval Numbers Tell Us About Where We’re Headed

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, History, Polls

Yes, Obama’s approval numbers are extremely high right now… So what’s the big deal? These numbers will come down as his presidency moves forward, right? Well, sure, but when looked at in historical context they provide an interesting glimpse into what he can get done in the near term. Especially when compared to Reagan in [...]

January 26th, 2009 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

Meet The Press For 1/25/09

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Economy, Meet The Press, Video

The economy is at the topic du jour once again. Take a look… I wrote yesterday about Republicans needing ideas other than tax cuts, and that was based on what John Boehner said during the broadcast. And, as reported elsewhere, they can’t continue to expect Americans to support tax cuts for the wealthy. It simply [...]

January 26th, 2009 | Permalink| No Comments »

Tighter Financial Regulations On The Way

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Economy

Obama signaled early on that he’d do this and with Geithner’s nomination all but certain, the tough work of making sure banks don’t get “too big to fail” will begin soon enough. From NY Times: Broad new outlines of the administration’s agenda have begun to emerge in recent interviews with officials, in confirmation proceedings of [...]

January 25th, 2009 | Permalink| No Comments »