Illinois, From the Colder Prairie Now
Because, you know, only white people can play Norse God Roles: Part of this that is underlying the anger is that there is a significant Norse pagan(is that correct?) religious movement in the White Supremacist movement. Kyle Rogers sent a message to the members of Council of Conservative Citizens. Kyle RogersDecember 15, 2010 at 10:45am […]
A couple folks I know are helping out with a IBM’s Smarter Cities Challenge and asked me to take a look at it–I approve wholeheartedly as it brings out my tech geek and marries it to my city redevelopment ideas. Here’s a bit from IBM: Could your city use an infusion of IBM talent and […]
Steve Benen points out the problem with stopping the compromise on taxes: But let’s say they’re all wrong. Let’s assume, for the sake of conversation, that the liberal economists don’t fully appreciate the larger principles at stake here; their stimulus projections are overly optimistic; and their entire perspective is skewed by weakness, a poor understanding […]
Susan Collins blocking DADT legislation. In a nutshell, Collins is asking Democratic leaders for unlimited debate on the defense bill. Reid, in turn, is offering Collins a compromise: votes on 10 separate amendments, seven of which would come from Republicans, three of which would come from Democrats. Collins has responded that this isn’t good enough, […]
I haven’t been terribly motivated to blog since the election largely because elections take it out of me. All of the energy expended and afterward I can’t read one more press release and so this year, I took some time off somewhat unplanned. It’s always only a matter of time until politics draws me back, […]
Repeat after me–Census redistricting data are publicly available within 24 hours of confirmed receipt by state governments. Apparently this small fact is not clear to reformers and editorial boards pushing for changes to redistricting. Before people start spouting off on redistricting reform, they should read how the US Census handles the data. What all of […]