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#1 5 July 2008 - 04:31 PM Pangloss 


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Politics FAQ & Useful Links

This post is intended to be a reference for three kinds of information:
1) How to go about posting on the politics board (rules and guidelines) (coming soon).
2) Helpful links to reference sites that are useful for discussion here.
3) Links to previous discussions on hot topics so you can refer back to how we talking about an issue before.

To that end I could use everyone's help, especially with the second and third points, which you can start adding to right now by replying to this thread. This thread will be open but moderated -- I'll be able to see your replies but I'll only tap certain ones for visibility. Others will be deleted after useful information is culled and added to the FAQ post. You can contribute to the guidelines section as well if you want to write up any helpful suggestions about posting here.

FAQ Post Begins Here
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Frequently Asked Questions about the SFN Politics Subforum
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Useful Reference Links for Political Discussion
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News
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BBC Front Page (CDarwin)


Legal References
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Pending Government Legislation Watch List
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FISA Amendments Act of 2008 - Regarding current US wiretapping regulation.


Government Watchdogs
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GovTrack - Useful for looking at specific legislation in US legislature.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)


Government Offices & Individuals
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US Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain, Official Web Site
US Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator Barack Obama, Official Web Site


Historical References
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Significant SFN Political Discussions By Subject
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Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction
7/1/08

US Economy, Late Bush Administration
7/3/08

FISA and Other US Wiretapping Laws/Legislation/Discussion
7/4/08, 7/9/08

This post has been edited by Pangloss: 14 December 2008 - 02:16 AM

According to the US Census Bureau almost 75% of those who live below the "poverty line" own a car (31% own 2+), 43% have a 3-bedroom house, 97% own a color TV, 78% have VCR or DVD, 62% have cable or sat TV, 89% have microwave, and over half have a stereo. 89% have "enough to eat", 80% have A/C, only 6% are overcrowded, and avg child dietary consumption is on par with children of middle an upper income parents. Wouldn't it be nice to know if we have any POOR people in this country?

"No one party can fool all of the people all of the time. That's why we have two parties." - Bob Hope

"They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality." - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs commenting on the "professional left", Aug 10, 2010.

"Pangloss, Every time you open your mouth, your brains are on parade!"
- Norman Albers
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#2 5 July 2008 - 04:48 PM Pangloss 


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(Note: This thread has been merged into the FAQ.)

This thread is intended as a reading list for the members, by the members. It is open and unmoderated, but a few rules apply. The general idea is to post links to articles here without any discussion. You can explain briefly what issue the article addresses or why it is interesting, but the idea is not to provocate or advertise or evangelize a specific point of view.

It's okay to pass along an article you feel might convince people of a certain viewpoint, but the purpose of the thread is really to share articles of interest that we come across in our own reading outside of the forum.

So a few ground rules:

1) No replies to specific posts, except for the following reasons:
a) Correcting a broken link (expect me to edit the broken link and delete your reply).
b) Add another article on the same subject.

2) Just include the links, without explanation if possible, but if necessary a brief explanation of the link is okay.

3) Try not to hound us with a bunch of links on the same subject. If you really feel compelled to do that, I can gather some links from previous posts into a single post for you. Or just do that yourself and I'll delete your previous posts in the thread.

4) Please try to keep the physical length of your post to a bare minimum, to allow for rapid reference scanning by members later on. We want to be able to search and refer to this thread in discussions; that's part of the idea (this is also part of why the extraneous conversation is being kept to a minimum).

I'm starting a separate thread to discuss this thread, so you can post any questions there. :-)

This post has been edited by Pangloss: 13 December 2008 - 12:07 AM

According to the US Census Bureau almost 75% of those who live below the "poverty line" own a car (31% own 2+), 43% have a 3-bedroom house, 97% own a color TV, 78% have VCR or DVD, 62% have cable or sat TV, 89% have microwave, and over half have a stereo. 89% have "enough to eat", 80% have A/C, only 6% are overcrowded, and avg child dietary consumption is on par with children of middle an upper income parents. Wouldn't it be nice to know if we have any POOR people in this country?

"No one party can fool all of the people all of the time. That's why we have two parties." - Bob Hope

"They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality." - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs commenting on the "professional left", Aug 10, 2010.

"Pangloss, Every time you open your mouth, your brains are on parade!"
- Norman Albers
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#3 7 July 2008 - 12:03 AM DJBruce 


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United States Supreme Court Decision on "District of Columbia v Heller", concerning the District's ban on firearms. (Warning: PDF!)

The Wikipedia also has a lengthy, sourced article on the case here:
http://en.wikipedia....umbia_v._Heller

This post has been edited by Pangloss: 7 July 2008 - 04:02 AM
Reason for edit: detail added by moderator (thanks DJBruce for the 1st submission!)

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift."

"A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more."
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#4 7 July 2008 - 12:08 AM DJBruce 


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http://www.law.corne...n.overview.html
http://memory.loc.go...constRedir.html
http://www.foundingf...deralistpapers/
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift."

"A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more."
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#5 7 July 2008 - 04:12 AM Pangloss 


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Conservatives may fight McCain on convention floor.
http://www.washingto...8070602322.html

RNC makes first battleground-state ad buy, focusing on balanced energy plan.
http://elections.fox...eground-states/
According to the US Census Bureau almost 75% of those who live below the "poverty line" own a car (31% own 2+), 43% have a 3-bedroom house, 97% own a color TV, 78% have VCR or DVD, 62% have cable or sat TV, 89% have microwave, and over half have a stereo. 89% have "enough to eat", 80% have A/C, only 6% are overcrowded, and avg child dietary consumption is on par with children of middle an upper income parents. Wouldn't it be nice to know if we have any POOR people in this country?

"No one party can fool all of the people all of the time. That's why we have two parties." - Bob Hope

"They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality." - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs commenting on the "professional left", Aug 10, 2010.

"Pangloss, Every time you open your mouth, your brains are on parade!"
- Norman Albers
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#6 9 July 2008 - 02:08 PM Pangloss 


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T. Boone Pickens made headlines yesterday regarding his new wind power venture.

Today he writes in the Wall Street Journal, explaining his overall energy strategy from an investor's perspective.

http://online.wsj.co...emEditorialPage

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US Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt writes about Congress' lobby-driven efforts to stop competitive bidding in Medicare equipment purchasing for the elderly.

http://online.wsj.co...emEditorialPage

This post has been edited by Pangloss: 9 July 2008 - 02:08 PM
Reason for edit: multiple post merged

According to the US Census Bureau almost 75% of those who live below the "poverty line" own a car (31% own 2+), 43% have a 3-bedroom house, 97% own a color TV, 78% have VCR or DVD, 62% have cable or sat TV, 89% have microwave, and over half have a stereo. 89% have "enough to eat", 80% have A/C, only 6% are overcrowded, and avg child dietary consumption is on par with children of middle an upper income parents. Wouldn't it be nice to know if we have any POOR people in this country?

"No one party can fool all of the people all of the time. That's why we have two parties." - Bob Hope

"They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality." - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs commenting on the "professional left", Aug 10, 2010.

"Pangloss, Every time you open your mouth, your brains are on parade!"
- Norman Albers
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#7 17 July 2008 - 05:58 AM Pangloss 


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Slate op/ed on changing the War Powers Act:
http://www.slate.com/id/2195152?nav=wp

Howard Kurtz on the death of Tony Snow:
http://www.washingto...8071302054.html

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From the Wall Street Journal and Cook Political Report. What's interesting about this image is mainly the lower portion, which indicates how currently-competitive seats are leaning amongst voters in those districts.

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Interesting article from Politico.com about Oliver Stone's efforts to make his upcoming film "W" as realistic as possible.
http://www.politico....0708/11776.html

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The New Yorker's very long biography on Obama's early days. This is the story that came out this week (for next week's issue) that has resulted in controversy, not for the story, but for the cover that the New Yorker ran.

Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama

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Fannie, Freddie spent $200M to buy influence

This post has been edited by Pangloss: 16 July 2008 - 04:44 PM
Reason for edit: multiple post merged

According to the US Census Bureau almost 75% of those who live below the "poverty line" own a car (31% own 2+), 43% have a 3-bedroom house, 97% own a color TV, 78% have VCR or DVD, 62% have cable or sat TV, 89% have microwave, and over half have a stereo. 89% have "enough to eat", 80% have A/C, only 6% are overcrowded, and avg child dietary consumption is on par with children of middle an upper income parents. Wouldn't it be nice to know if we have any POOR people in this country?

"No one party can fool all of the people all of the time. That's why we have two parties." - Bob Hope

"They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality." - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs commenting on the "professional left", Aug 10, 2010.

"Pangloss, Every time you open your mouth, your brains are on parade!"
- Norman Albers
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#8 22 July 2008 - 04:39 PM Pangloss 


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The Wall Street Journal's Shelby Steele explores the differences between Jesse Jackson's approach to black-white relations versus Barack Obama's.

http://online.wsj.co...emEditorialPage
According to the US Census Bureau almost 75% of those who live below the "poverty line" own a car (31% own 2+), 43% have a 3-bedroom house, 97% own a color TV, 78% have VCR or DVD, 62% have cable or sat TV, 89% have microwave, and over half have a stereo. 89% have "enough to eat", 80% have A/C, only 6% are overcrowded, and avg child dietary consumption is on par with children of middle an upper income parents. Wouldn't it be nice to know if we have any POOR people in this country?

"No one party can fool all of the people all of the time. That's why we have two parties." - Bob Hope

"They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality." - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs commenting on the "professional left", Aug 10, 2010.

"Pangloss, Every time you open your mouth, your brains are on parade!"
- Norman Albers
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#9 17 October 2008 - 01:42 AM bascule 


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I've been using this site for the past several months to track the polls:

fivethirtyeight.com

(538 is the number of electoral votes, btw)

It was developed by a guy named Nate Silver who originally wrote a model for predicting baseball games called PECOTA. The model predicted the Rays would turn it around, going from losing 96 games to winning 90. They ended up winning 97. Who'da thunk it? PECOTA did.

Now he's turned to predicting elections. His model runs 10,000 times a day, and analyzes the history of polls vs election results with a data set going back to the '50s.

He predicts Obama has a 94.7% chance of winning... on election day.
Radicalism: The conservatism of tomorrow injected into the affairs of today.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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#10 21 January 2010 - 09:02 PM Pangloss 


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Good article from today's LA Times overviewing the recent history of American relations with Haiti, including the policies of the previous two US presidential administrations.

http://www.latimes.c...0,6934198.story
According to the US Census Bureau almost 75% of those who live below the "poverty line" own a car (31% own 2+), 43% have a 3-bedroom house, 97% own a color TV, 78% have VCR or DVD, 62% have cable or sat TV, 89% have microwave, and over half have a stereo. 89% have "enough to eat", 80% have A/C, only 6% are overcrowded, and avg child dietary consumption is on par with children of middle an upper income parents. Wouldn't it be nice to know if we have any POOR people in this country?

"No one party can fool all of the people all of the time. That's why we have two parties." - Bob Hope

"They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality." - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs commenting on the "professional left", Aug 10, 2010.

"Pangloss, Every time you open your mouth, your brains are on parade!"
- Norman Albers
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#11 27 January 2010 - 02:40 PM Syntho-sis 


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I hope someone finds this relevant.

World's smallest political quiz.
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." Albert Einstein

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
- Voltaire
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