You may be aware of the Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that overturned the decades old limits on the amount of money that corporations could donate to political campaigns. The original limits were designed to prevent large corporations from buying power and influence in Washington. But January’s Supreme Court ruling cited that these regulations [...]
Feb 022009
My sister Amy has met and had her photo taken with many prominent Washingington politicians. In college she met the first female Vice Presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro. Later, she worked for the U.S. Senator from Connecticut, Chris Dodd and was involved with the writing of some legislation he sponsored. Ever since then (living in Washington) [...]
May 072008
Today was the big day, primary election day in North Carolina. Who’d a thunk that a primary held in May would have any significance at all, let alone be an essential battleground being watched across the nation. Of course the big hoopla over North Carolina’s primary is the Democratic presidential race between Barack Obama and [...]
Apr 182008
Against all odds, North Carolina’s primary will actually matter this year, and quite a bit too since we have a disproportionate amount of delegates up for grabs. For weeks now there have been television and radio ads for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, but this one in particular caught my eye. Politics completely aside, [...]
Jul 042007
Happy Independence Day, 2007. Once again, not “Happy 4th of July”. I have off from work today and right before I wrote this post I walked out into the street in front of my house and counted how many American flags I could see around the neighborhood. I could see 21 houses and only one [...]
Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd announced yesterday that he will run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. It’s way too early for me to decide which candidates to back but I mention Dodd’s announcement because my sister Amy worked for him as a Fellow in 1998 and 1999. Amy worked on some of the bills [...]
Jan 112007
I watched the presidential address last night. Am I the only one that found it ironic that George W. Bush publicly preached the virtues of communism as the answer to the turmoil in Iraq? Let me say that again. The President of the United States of America said that communism would be great for a [...]
Nov 132006
Nobody can deny that the Simpsons have been going downhill for years but I refused to believe that it had actually jumped the shark. The shark has been jumped. First of all, last night’s episode was just not funny at all. Secondly, the premise of this episode was that Homer joined the Army, a rip-off [...]
Nov 092006
Good for Joe! I’m happy that Joe Lieberman was re-elected to the U.S. Senate last night – even though he’s one of my least favorite Democrats. I’ve always strongly disagreed with most of Lieberman’s beliefs, from his overly-conservative agenda, to his push for media censorship, to his support of the Iraqi war. But it is [...]
Jun 302006
This week the Charlotte Department of Transportation released compelling video of three collisions that occurred within one month’s time at one particular intersection in Uptown Charlotte. They claim that there were zero collisions at this interection the previous eight months, during which time there were red-light cameras in operation. CDOT goes on to claim that [...]
