Friday Politics:
I've been hoping for years that a few minor parties could come along and break us out of our two-party system. It's not that I like the looks of Japanese democracy or other systems that require constantly shifting alliances to...
Posted on November 3, 2006 4:34 PM • 5 Comments
It sounds like this. I specifically refer you to minutes 3:50 - 4:36 of the interview (start at 2:50 to get the fuller context). That's a clip of Rep. Tom Reynolds of the 26th District of New York speaking to...
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Posted on November 3, 2006 12:54 PM • 0 Comments
I'm guessing that most of you Colorado-based readers live in the 2nd Congressional district (Udall's district), but there are probably some of you that work in the 2nd but live (and thus vote) in the 4th. The 4th district's seat would be held by Ms. Musgrave, not known as the most tolerant or charitable Representative of the 435 duly sworn and elected.
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Posted on October 27, 2006 12:41 PM • 3 Comments
Walking home today, best bumper sticker I've seen in a long time: "I study ferns and I vote" Speaking of studying and voting, if you didn't catch the SMIP (Karl Rove) on NPR Tuesday, you should take a listen. I...
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Posted on October 26, 2006 11:31 PM • 0 Comments
In ongoing coverage of the '06 midterms, yesterday morning NPR ran a story about one particular House race in California's 4th District. The 4th is heavily Republican and has an 8-term incumbent Republican rep in John Doolittle, but it sounds...
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Posted on October 6, 2006 10:26 AM • 2 Comments
Way back when (ok, last November) I handicapped the Dems' chances of taking back the Senate and House this November. I thought there no chance that the D's would retake the House and only a small chance that the D's...
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Posted on September 22, 2006 3:02 PM • 0 Comments
Via recent new commenter Inky Circus, a post listing how many ways the Diebold voting machine is an utter disaster. Here's the soft-underbelly problem with the Diebold's problems: we have a very un-tech-savvy society (and that's putting it mildly). The...
Posted on September 15, 2006 6:03 PM • 7 Comments
It's been a while since I wrote a Friday Politics piece that was just politics without even a hint of science, but when I saw this I knew I had to post it. Joel Hefley is the outgoing Republican rep...
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Posted on September 8, 2006 6:32 PM • 1 Comments
For the next week and a half I'll be traversing the alpine beauty of the granodioritic central Sierra Nevada. Starting from Lake Sabrina, hitting Echo Lake in the Evolution Basin, eventually hitting the metamorphic-dominated Ionian Basin and doing a bunch...
Posted on August 25, 2006 12:00 PM • 2 Comments
As a former Montana resident still in love with the state, I've been watching Conrad Burns (R-MT) slowly run himself out of the Senate over the past year. But something that happened last week shifted his descent from gentle slide...
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Posted on August 4, 2006 4:45 PM • 1 Comments
I caught on NPR yesterday Peter Overby talking about the dishing of Congressional pork. The issue was that a town in the district of Rep. Jerry Lewis (the House's King of Purse) hired a lobbyist to get Lewis to kick...
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Posted on July 21, 2006 1:08 PM • 3 Comments
Two days ago I snuck a post out about the WRDA bill getting to the Senate floor calendar. (Today five posts that I wrote last night are coming out, then it's back to hibernation.) I warned you insiders to read...
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Posted on July 21, 2006 12:46 PM • 1 Comments
Strange juxtaposition in the Times yesterday on the stem cell stuff. Two pictures ran under the page A1 story on Bush's veto -- one of Harry Reid and a wheelchair-bound passenger for prop purposes (apologies to the actual person, but...
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Posted on July 21, 2006 12:39 PM • 3 Comments
I got two interesting emails from a high-traffic list I'm on. I'm not going to identify the list or the email authors, but the list includes lots of beltway and former beltway types that also have connections to science. First,...
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Posted on May 19, 2006 1:34 PM • 6 Comments
It's not that Senators Domenici and Bingaman (R-NM and D-NM) have nothing at stake on wind energy. They are the Chair and Ranking Member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, after all, so they should be interested in...
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Posted on May 5, 2006 3:15 PM • 0 Comments
Last Thursday I tore into the plainly moronic $100 give back plan by some Senate R's. Judging from a few comments and emails to me, some people were taking the plan as a direct insult on their intelligence. Apparently people...
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Posted on May 1, 2006 12:15 PM • 0 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
