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Verified Voting is Essential for Democracy

There are a lot of people who argue that the election was stolen via the electronic machines. There are a lot of people who say that is a myth. Wether you subscribe to the theory that the election was stolen or not, two facts remain absolutely imperical: 1) people do NOT trust the paperless electronic […]

Stolen Election or Nation of Idiots?

As of 7:12am Eastern, only 112,596,922 votes are counted… That seems a little low to me. It would indicate an increase of 10% over the 2000 election, but that is less of an increase than I expected with the massive voter turnout and registration efforts. Additionally, I find it hard to believe that just over […]

31 Minutes to Vote

At 7:09 this morning, my wife and I got into line outside Evergreen Precinct’s Polling Place at Mountain View Elementary School in Haymarket, Virginia. It is the first election we have voted in where the line at Mountain View extended outside. As usual, there were campaigners from both the Republican and Democratic parties outside the […]

How to Make Elections Fair and Open

Two things really shock me: 1) There are, according to the highly suspect election results of 2000, roughly 50 million voters who thought that George W. Bush and his administration was their best choice in 2000. That baffles me. Even worse, according to the polls – a lot of those ~50 million STILL think that […]

Stem Cell Research; Ron Reagan Jr Speaks Out

WOW! I don’t know much about Ron Reagan Junior, but I heard his non-political plea for science at the Democratic National Convention. I did not think much of it. Yet, here he is writing a big article for Esquire in which he really states an eloquent case against President Bush. I do not agree with […]

Why You Should Vote; Thou Shalt Not Kill

I resent that Bill Maher suggests that religious people support George Bush and scientific people don’t. I am religious, and my religion says that people who cause death for personal gain are evil. Since the war in Iraq was so clearly fought so that the American taxpayers could be fleeced by George Bush’s constituents, and […]

Integrity in Elections; Bush has None

Vice President Dick Cheney and others continue harping on the same question over and over again even though it has already been answered a dozen times by Senators John Edwards and John Kerry. They (the Republicans) keep repeating the question about why the senators voted against funding the war and they continue to try to […]

Hope for the Future, Obama

While watching the Democratic National Convention on PBS tonight, I think I just saw a possible presidential candidate in Barack Obama, the Illinois State Senator who is running for U.S. Senate and delivered a transcendant keynote speach at the DNC in Boston. He proposes something I have found harder and harder to do myself, that […]

Marriage is About Love, not Fear

Kojo Nnamdi just had delegate Bob Marshall on his show talking about the Federal Marriage Amendment. I am appalled, as a voter in district 13, Bob Marshall has NEVER represented me. He is abhorrent to me in every way, and his stands on women being subservient and against same-sex unions are simply crimes against humanity. […]

Politics of Fear

What the heck is wrong with our president? How can he believe the world is a safer place today than it was before the invasion of Iraq? More people hate the United States than ever before. I feel far less safe because of the madman in the oval office. How can he site Afghanistan as […]