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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:08:23 -0700

Obama's Senate Record: 110th Congress
Based on discussion in the US Politics Forum, I've searched the Library of Congress THOMAS database for Sen. Barack Obama's...
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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:05:09 -0700

McCain's Senate Record: 110th Congress
Based on discussion in the US Politics Forum, I've searched the Library of Congress THOMAS database for Sen. John McCain's...
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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:21:35 -0700

Visual Analysis Of McCain's Acceptance Speech
Normalized analysis: Original Image At Wordle Using Wordle, I've created a visual analysis (comparable to a tag cloud) of...
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Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:07:51 -0700

Missed A Convention Speech?
Then check the C-SPAN archives. It's not intuitive, but click that big "Flash" button on the right-hand side of the page,...
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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:12:30 -0700

Palin Energizes Republican Delegates
Photo: Getty Images I don't agree with everything she said -- especially when Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) implied we can drill...
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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:27:30 -0700

Visual Analysis Of Palin's Acceptance Speech
See Original Image At Wordle Using Wordle, I've created a visual analysis (comparable to a tag cloud) of Sarah Palin's...
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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:25:55 -0700

Public Campaign Money Subsidizes RNC, DNC
RNC, Day 3. Photo: Getty Images Color me amazed: the Democratic and Republican National Convention organizers could count on...
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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:48:21 -0700

Ron Paul's Minneapolis
Watch on C-SPAN or YouTube The event was billed as the "Rally For The Republic," and, for about 12,000 Ron Paul fans, it...
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Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:45:31 -0700

Wordless Wednesday: The Threatened Polar Bear
Ida, a 19-year old polar bear, swims in the Central Park (NYC) Zoo, 2005. Photo: Getty Images In 2005, the Natural Resources...
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Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:52:50 -0700

Palin A Financial Hit
On a holiday weekend, when many Americans are either away from home or ignoring the news, the McCain campaign raised at least...
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Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:23:48 -0700

North Pole Becomes An Island
Image: NSIDC/NOAA via London DailyMail Comment Period Still Open on Climate Change Report For the first time in 125,000...
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:53:27 -0700

Comcast Announces Data Limit
Effective 1 October, Comcast customers will be limited to 250GB of traffic month, according to ReporterNews. According to...
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:30:30 -0700

Bush, Cheney Skip RNC Appearance
Photo: NOAA; click image for larger view President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will not be speaking at the...
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:48:25 -0700

FF3 And State Management
Update: This is a Mac-only problem. Hopefully someone can tell me why FF3 does not appear to be “reading” a logged...
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:15:38 -0700

RNC Postpones Opening Of GOP Convention
Bowing to the inevitability of Gustav's havoc and sensitive to appearance, the Republican National Committee has canceled...
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:40:16 -0700

Gustav: Look For Gas Price Increase
Reuters reports that US refineries in the Gulf have "shut nearly all offshore oil production and were racing to bring down...
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Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:57:43 -0700

FF Session Manager Goes Crazy!
Firefox just forced version 3 on me …. because FF 2.x crashed. (I had already downloaded the update.) When I got the...
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Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:05:27 -0700

New Orleans: Evacuation On Third Katrina Anniversary
Photo: NOAA - Click Image For Larger View With Hurricane Gustav taking aim at the Gulf, in general, and New Orleans, in...
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:38:00 -0700

Katrina: The Third Anniversary
Data from Katrina Livability Statistics It's been three years since Hurricane Katrina wrecked havoc on the US Gulf Coast,...
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:50:22 -0700

McCain Picks Palin
Photo: Getty Images Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, 44, is the Republican vice presidential nominee, setting up a contest in...
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:48:49 -0700

Visual Analysis of Obama's Acceptance Speech
Click Image to See Larger View Using Wordle, I've created a visual analysis (comparable to a tag cloud) of Barack Obama's...
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:45:46 -0700

Obama's Acceptance Speech
If you had any doubt that politics today is almost indistinguishable from entertainment, this long-shot of the "stage" where...
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:57:51 -0700

McCain Congratulates Obama
Click Image To View YouTube Clip Tonight the McCain campaign is airing a 30 second ad -- on cable and in key states --...
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:55:54 -0700

LBJ : The Architect Of The Great Society
Wednesday (sorry, I'm a day late!) would have been Lyndon Baines Johnson's 100th birthday. From May 1964: "The Great Society...
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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:49:10 -0700

EU Copyright Following US Tracks
According to ArsTechnica, the European Union is proposing to expand musical copyright terms from its current 50 years by adding...
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