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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 9:02 AM PDT

2008/08/21 · 09:02

If you, or people in your circle, have an interest in the future of health care policy in the U.S., I want to invite you to stop by the Colorado blog SquareState.net today at 2:00 pm Mountain Time (4:00 Eastern, 1:00 Pacific)

US Representative Diana Degette, who led the charge on Stem Cell research and the S-CHIP bills, will be live-blogging on her experiences trying to establish rational policy in the face of religious extremism.

We are just a state-blog, so I could really use the intelligence of the national community getting good questions to her. Help me get out the word, or add your questions here.

After the jump is my review of her new book "Sex, Science, and Stem Cells - Inside the Right Wing Assault on Reason."

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Wednesday July 23, 2008 · 9:55 AM PDT

2008/07/23 · 09:55

The Bush administration has drafted new rules in their attempt to keep us dependent on oil, while transferring more Colorado lands and resources into the hands of their largest donors. The Bush plan accelerates oil-shale development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, rather than investing in alternative fuels. Still many years away from even potential results, the plan is being sold as an emergency short term response to current energy prices.

(cross-posted at SquareState.net)

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Sunday July 20, 2008 · 2:17 PM PDT

2008/07/20 · 14:17

Support women = Support Sebelius = Snub Clinton = Snub Clinton supporters = Snub women? I think something slipped there.

NYT:

Democrats said they thought it was less likely now than it was a month ago that Mr. Obama would choose Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York as his running mate, though they said she remained in consideration and that she was being vetted.

If he does not choose Mrs. Clinton, several Democrats said, it would be difficult for him to name any woman — like Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, someone for whom he has had warm words. Both Clinton and Obama advisers said such a move could create a backlash among women who supported Mrs. Clinton.

Help me understand this theory. Women, and let's be clear that they are not talking about "Clinton loyalists" they said "women", who voted for Clinton would be upset if Obama was NOT a sexist?

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Thursday May 29, 2008 · 7:27 PM PDT

2008/05/29 · 19:27

Blue Jersey is on. African American writers are represented. GLBT blogs. Latino blogs. Nearly every Soapblox blog out there, and yes... Kos made the cut.

It is really a great list.

(and I am not just saying that because I edit SquareState.net)

Full list after the jump...

(and some bonus features)

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Thursday May 01, 2008 · 5:09 PM PDT

2008/05/01 · 17:09

I am an Obama guy myself, but that doesn't mean that I don't appreciate that we have two history making candidates in this race. In any other year, the choice would be clear, but what to do this time? I think this video will help answer all the questions. Or maybe it won't. I actually am just rambling here because the diary has to be at least 300 characters, even though a picture speaks at least a thousand words. I just wanted you to be able to say that you saw the video here first, so I am typing quickly to get it online, and is that enough text yet, Kos?

Democrats Work & Darcy Burner - Serving Well By Actually Serving

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Wednesday April 30, 2008 · 5:10 PM PDT

2008/04/30 · 17:10

Somewhere along the line the pundits forgot that politics doesn't begin and end in Washington, DC. They focus on FOX News appearances and ABC debates and the words of a pastor, but they fail to look at how some of us are making appearances in our communities, finding solutions, and getting beyond words.

With every campaign talking about change this year, let’s look some of the people who are changing the way they campaign. Let’s look at people who aren't just saying how they would act if they were elected, but are showing through their actions the very nature of their commitment and leadership.

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Monday April 21, 2008 · 1:32 PM PDT

2008/04/21 · 13:32

Lieberman beat Lamont. Let's start with that. The Democrat's second choice played it to the center, and came out as a Senator. It can happen.

The nomination is winner take all, and The Math says she is a loser. Why keep beating Obama around with boxing gloves filled with mud? Why pile his shoulders with enough dirt to weigh him down if it will never be enough to bury him?

She should have stopped before Texas. She didn't.
She should have stopped after Texas. She didn't.
She should stop after Tuesday. She won't.
She should stop when she loses the nomination.

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Friday April 04, 2008 · 9:59 AM PDT

2008/04/04 · 09:59

The 9th Circuit Court ruled en banc in a matter concerning Roommates.com that directly concerned the Fair Housing Act, but may have a larger impact on issues facing website managers.

Was Roommates.com just a bulletin board for ads or were they an advertiser when they provided information about race, family status, and sexual preference that would normally be excluded from advertisements for housing?

The ruling held that the website was not just a passive conveyor of information posted by others, but that the structure of the site made them part of the creation and development of the information, and subject to the antidescrimination rules.

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Tuesday April 01, 2008 · 7:25 PM PDT

2008/04/01 · 19:25

The "Rock" video was a classic of zen absurdity.

The new one out of the Gravel campaign would make either Frank Zappa, William Shatner, or Charles Manson proud... or puzzled.

Witness the blinding truth of Sen. Gravel's warning about the military industrial complex. But don't blame me if you do.

Labor and the Colorado Legislature

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Monday March 31, 2008 · 11:37 AM PDT

2008/03/31 · 11:37

[ed. Note: I will be writing occasional pieces on legislation that I see working its way through the Colorado State Assembly. I am going to start by following the proposed fix to a loophole in our unemployment laws. This first column will give the history of how it landed on Capitol Hill.]

Deep in the moldy corners of the Colorado Politics Hall of Shame you will find the names Marilyn Musgrave and Jim Congrove crudely scratched into the stone walls, but back in 1999 when they were still young State Senators, their Republican held chamber churned out bill after bill to weaken worker protections, injury compensation, and minimum wage rules. Cementing their status as rising disasters was their crowning gift to lovers of unfair business practices; SB 99-155.

For over thirty years in Colorado, if a corporation tried to squeeze concessions out of their workers by shutting them out of their jobs, the employees could at least scrape by on unemployment benefits while forced out of work. This might sound reasonable, but the corporations felt that starving families was exactly the point and they wanted the rules changed.

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Saturday March 15, 2008 · 9:37 AM PDT

2008/03/15 · 09:37

AP:

This undated image obtained from a MySpace webpage shows a woman identified as Ashley Alexandra Dupre.

...

Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

pdn online

Associated Press director of photography Santiago Lyon says AP consulted with its legal department before deciding to use the photos.

"Given the news value of the photographs, we decided that these were images that the public needed to see," Lyon says.

After the jump, I look at the inevitable hypocrisies of mixing this with the AP suing news aggregators and web crawlers...

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Monday March 10, 2008 · 9:17 PM PDT

2008/03/10 · 21:17

Reuters has the story of a Harris poll that shows that 44% of Americans now read political blogs, and 22% of them read blogs several times a month or more. So how do they react to that huge and growing percentage of America that is moving away from traditional media outlets like themselves?

Poll: Most Americans don't read political blogs

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of Americans do not read political blogs, the online commentaries that have proliferated in the race for the U.S. presidency, according to a poll released on Monday.

Only 22 percent of people responding to the poll said they read blogs regularly, meaning several times a month or more, according to the survey conducted by Harris Interactive.

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