Climate Change Legislation & the Developing Word

Yale 360 reports that India, like China before them, has announced that they will not agree to emissions’ restrictions. Obama has said that he opposes trade sanctions against countries who do not agree to carbon caps. From the Times’ article: The House bill contains a provision, inserted in the middle of the night before the [...]

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Making Calls for Obama

Though I’ve contributed to Obama’s campaign, I hadn’t yet given much of my time other than talking to friends and family about why I think he’s the best candidate. Like a lot of liberals out there I was starting to have pre-election jitters so I decided to make some Get-Out-the-Vote calls for Obama’s campaign. The [...]

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How Much is Your Vote Worth?

In today’s NYtimes, an interesting article / chart that scrutinizes the ‘one person, one vote’ principle of our democracy. While the electoral college was been derided for ages now, the writers look at the three factors which give votes value relative the electoral bounty of their state. First, since electoral votes equal the numbers or [...]

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How Divided Are We? Pt I

Elections, which present us with stark binary choices, naturally tend to divide rather than unite the American public. Supporters become so fervent that they can’t imagine how someone could support the other guy.  Rather than assert any shared common ground, the candidates themselves reinforce their distinctions while paradoxically crawling toward the middle ground where any [...]

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Obama’s Infomercial

So if you weren’t tuned in to TV tonight, you might have missed Barack Obama’s 30-minute ad called, “American Stories, American Solutions:” I wasn’t tuned in myself as I don’t have TV with reception, but quickly found the video on his website. There wasn’t anything groundbreaking but I enjoyed watching it nonetheless. There’s something remarkably [...]

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