Obama Selective Service Registration: Another Obama Record, Another Question

‘’ ‘′ ‘′ ‘’ ‘’ Barack Obama, Selective Service Registration: Questions, More Questions, Still More Questions No Curiosity Excited in the Mainstream Media About Obama’s Selective Service Registration Learning a Lesson from the 1990s Clintons Say what you will, Debbie Schlussel is interesting. Last week, the motor behind debbieschlussel.com posted an interesting article about the Selective Service registration of Barack Obama. Multiple screenshots–complete with letters A-H highl

Arianna Huffington and Jay Rosen: Thanks to the People Who Worked on OffTheBus; Here’s What Comes Next

We thought the 12,000 people who participated in OffTheBus during campaign 08 would like to know: they're finalists for a Game Changer award given by the WeMedia Project. WeMedia's purpose is saluting innovation. Our purpose today is to thank the people of OffTheBus for opening up the campaign news and commentary "game" by their participation. Thanks for all the writing, reporting, recording, digging, web searching, e-mailing, news scanning, tape editing, expertise-sharing, columnizing, team pl

Arianna Huffington and Jay Rosen: Thanks to the People Who Worked on OffTheBus; Here’s What Comes Next (HuffingtonPost)

The OffTheBus project went live in July 2007 as an experiment designed to cover the amazing presidential election of 2008 - and it succeeded beyond all our expectations. OffTheBus was such a success that HuffPost intends to make the methods developed and honed by OTB an integral part of our editorial process.

The Counting Continues - 11/17/2008 (WLIO NBC Lima)

The voting is long over for the 2008 presidential election, but the work and the counting to wrap up the election goes on. Ohio's election chief has launched a statewide audit of election results similar to a review she ordered after the March primary.

Porter County may seek more election employees (The Times of Northwest Indiana)

VALPARAISO | In the wake of the busy presidential election, Porter County Clerk Pam Fish plans to ask the county council tonight to hire two new election employees and shift others around to comply with state election laws and to meet the growing demands ahead.

Feminist therapy on BlogTalkRadio at 9pm ET Monday

I meant to post this earlier today, but better late than never. Lynette Long’s new call-in show starts in 15 minutes, and based on the temperature in my comment threads, I’d say the timing couldn’t be better. (Lynette, by the way, is the therapist whose friends were attacked in the restaurant Friday night.) Here’s the press release: No Quarter Radio is proud to present Sins of Omission with Dr. Lynette Long, the new weekly call-in show about sexism in our society. Every week Dr. Long will fo

Tomorrow the Democrats decide on Traitor Joe!

Reuters Call or email you Senators, Scissorheads and tell them to fire the bastid. He should not be rewarded for campaigning, actively, against his own party.

Why the Republicans lost

(This was submitted to Pajamas Media over the weekend, but unfortunately, they ran enough on this subject and thus couldn't consider it.) If one were to take the triumphalism of self-declared moderates and liberals at face value, one would have to conclude that the 2008 election represented a serious defeat for conservative ideas. Some have even gone so far as to suggest jettisoning everyone from supports of James Dobson, to anyone remotely inspired by Milton Friedman or F.A. Hayek. The prob

432 - North American Tree News

--Today for you 30 news articles about earth’s trees! (432nd edition) http://forestpolicyresearch.org --To Subscribe / unsubscribe to email format send blank email to: earthtreenews-subscribe@lists.riseup.net OR earthtreenews-unsubscribe@lists.riseup --Deane’s Daily Treeinspiration texted to your phone via: http://twitter.com/ForestPolicy Index: --Canada: 1) Chignecto Game Sanctuary needs wilderness protection, 2) Sensitive forest secured in Lake Simcoe Region, 3) Nat-Geo on Muskwa-Kechika

Amy White Catalogues Pro-Choice Reasons to be Happy About Election 2008

On the night of November 12, Ohio University Assistant Professor of Philosophy Amy White appeared before a meeting of the ACLU in Columbus, Ohio to deliver an assessment of the results of the election of 2008. Like most observers, White discussed the implications of the presidential race, but then very quickly turned local. My transcription of her remarks regarding election results in the area of reproductive rights: Reproductive rights? This is an area, I believe, in which we can breathe a hu