edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
A vote has been called on the "Stupak" amendment, by Michigan Democrat Bart Stupack, which would expand a ban on government funded abortions by banning abortion coverage in any insurance policy sold...Unless we get linked by a very high-traffic blog, Saturdays and Sundays tend be our slowest days where we see a huge drop-off in the number of visits we get. It seems most people would rather spend times with their families and friends than follow politics.
Perhaps that’s why House [...]
If you asked the premier rock critics, at the time I was young and impressionable and on the outside looking in at your America, they would tell you the greatest and most socially significant song from the greatest and most socially significant band would be Eleanor Rigby from The Beatles. [...]
Barry Ritholtz of the Big Picture pens a scathing post about Warren Buffet:The conventional wisdom is that the 49 Democrats from congressional districts that backed John McCain last fall are those likely to tip the balance in the current debate on health care.
Given the results of last Tuesday’s elections, however, those Democrats for districts which delivered 45% of their votes [...]
Over at Skeptical Hypochondriac, I mull over a few recent findings from a Pew/Annenberg study on how we’re being impacted by the rise of social networks.
[...]As I research the idea of male aggression for the chapter in my dissertation on why men need the goddess Athena, I encounter reams of evidence, from the social as well as the natural sciences, which provide substance to my “gut” suspicion of the term, “marriage equality.”
In their 1989 book, [...]
The phone lines to the offices of two Democratic holdouts from the San Joaquin Valley have been tied up all day.
Reps. Jim Costa and Dennis Cardoza have not yet committed to vote for the...The Rose Institute in the news this week:
The Orange County Register wrote an article about the Rose Institute’s article “California: A 2010 Congressional Battleground?”
USA Today online linked to the article as well
Inland Empire politics blog, The Contra Costa Times, The Oakland Tribune , [...]
Protesters demonstrate against health care bill outside the Capitol.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher got time during today’s floor debate for just one sentence. And the Huntington Beach Republican said he opposes the health reform bill because the measure will “take hundreds [...]
10.2% Unemployment Rate. That’s the ‘official’ rate. The real rate is probably more like 17%, counting underemployment and those no longer counted.
The verdict so far on the stimulus bill and construction job [...]
"Sometimes you have to play through the ugly to get to where you want to be."Mark W. Holmerud, bishop of the Sierra Pacific synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and John T. Steinbock, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno, wrote a commentary in today's Fresno Bee calling on Congress to reform health care. You can click here to read the [...]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi,flanked by Rep. James Clyburn, left, and President Barack Obama, right.
President Barack Obama was in the White House Rose Garden a few minutes ago urging lawmakers to vote yes on health reform even [...]
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Alternative Energy News fills us in on the One Laptop Per Child XO human-powered laptop. 2,500 prototypes are now being used.
" [...]Atlas Shrugs posted this video. Watch it. When you string years of Obama's public references, praise, slips of the tongue, and allusions to Islam, he reveals a deeper affinity with Islam than one would expect if he did not feel his identity to be Muslim. Contrast this public affiliation with Islam to [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has just declared that health care legislation will pass the House tonight, following President Obama's visit to the House.
"We will be making history with our vote,"...
There’s a war going on in Ameica, and the stakes are nothing less than Glenn Beck’s internal organs.
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Opponents of health care reform rallied in the shadow of the Capitol this week.
The House of Representatives descended into procedural chaos and contentious partisanship this morning as historic debate started on the health care debate.
One [...]
Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.Former State Senator Dick Ackerman has publicly acknowledged that he was up in Sacramento,being paid by the OC Fairgrounds, a state [...]
Former Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi, who was elected to the United States House of Representatives on Tuesday, has thrown his support behind Susan Jordan in her 2010 race for Assembly District 35.
“I support Susan Jordan for State Assembly because she is smart, bold and she has proven that [...]
President Obama is arriving at House Cannon Building any minute to plea with Democrats to pass the biggest health care legislation since Lyndon Johnson created Medicare and Medicaid in 1964. House...
In his weekend video/radio address, President Barack Obama condemns the despicable attacks at Fort Hood, honoring those who were killed and wounded.
** OBAMA TODAY – SATURDAY. President Barack Obama is in Washington and Camp David this weekend.
Obama has received his intelligence and economic briefings in the Oval Office.
At [...]
In this Democratic weekly address, Assemblymembers Anna Caballero (D-Salinas) and Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) discuss historic legislation passed by the Legislature this week to solve California’s water crisis.
You may listen in English or Spanish. The transcript is below.
Transcript:
Hello, this is [...]
Evocative Design won first place at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory 22nd Clean Energy Growth Forum for Best Venture.
Manufacturing the insulations and shipping material requires 10x less energy and it can be custom-molded and also provides thermal insulation.
