$79.95 + Iris Scans + Fingerprints = Registered Flyer!
A brief comment on the news last night ... TSA announced that a registered flyer program was cleared for implementation nationwide June 20, 2006. I did a bit of research to learn more. For just $79.95...
View ArticleCongressional Committees Project ... please join us!
Over the weekend the most amazing thing happened here at dKos. A trilogy of diaries inspired events that led to what I have dubbed The Stone Soup Project, but is officially known as the Congressional...
View ArticleIN Primary ... Open or Closed? (w/poll)
Is Indiana's presidential primary open or closed?Since Indiana's primary election may actually make a difference in 2008 - and there appears to be some controversy about who can vote in the primary - I...
View ArticleMcCain gets gov health benefits he would deny us [updated]
In an interesting NYT's article Competing Prescriptions Jacob Hacker, a professor of political science at Yale, describes the Republican (McCain) and the Democratic (Obama & Clinton) prescriptions...
View ArticleIN superdelegates: status report [updated]
Suddenly we matterIndiana will have at least 12 superdelegates to the Democratic Convention in Denver, 11 of whom have been named.Two have committed to Obama:Connie Thurman, a political representative...
View ArticleObama in Indiana: 32 Days
Exciting times around here. We haven’t seen a local presidential contest like this since 1968 when Robert F. Kennedy actively courted Hoosier voters.In 2004 there wasn’t a single Kerry for President...
View ArticleObama in Indiana: Muncie
Wow. I attended Obama's Townhall today in Muncie, Indiana.The crowd was electric. Obama was articulate and personable. The crowd was hopeful and excited. The crowd was cynical and bitter. Those are not...
View ArticleObama in Indiana: Oprah's Church
Well, I think they really are running scared.I mean, now the crazy religious nuts here in Indiana are resorting to making things up.I've been blogging my experiences with the Obama campaign and I've...
View ArticlePolice raid RNC protest center
In Minnesota a "convergence center", where protesters were organizing protests for the upcoming Republican National Convention, was raided by police last night.This is the America that eight years of...
View ArticleStarhawk: Magic & Anarchy at the RNC [updated]
I hesitate to post this diary. I think: am I making myself vulnerable? Yes. It's true. I am. Linking myself publicly to anarchists at the RNC isn't to be taken lightly.So I sit, contemplating a post...
View ArticleRNC Protests: Hello? Is anyone paying attention?????
OK. Enough already with the shiny, shiny object named Sarah Palin.Is ANYONE paying attention to what's been happening in St. Paul?A few of us are. We've been writing diaries and making comments. But...
View ArticleGreen the Bailout
Tom Friedman has a great article this morning in the New York Times: Green the BailoutFriedman says that we need to add a buildup to the bailout and that it should be green.In a green economy, we would...
View ArticleThis Land is Your Land
I've always been annoyed by the lyrics of our National Anthem ... "bombs bursting in air .... rockets red glare". I mean, come on. Too aggressive, too militaristic.According to HankNYNY's diary about...
View ArticleHeads have gotta roll!
So many wonderful, inspiring stories about volunteers and OFA staffers doing GOTV this weekend! And the one abiding idea that has started burning in my mind is that heads have gotta roll...
View ArticleObamacare comes to Indiana
Several hundred "high risk" Hoosiers gathered in the Indianapolis Central Library to learn about the coming of Obamacare last night. As participants in Indiana's high risk pool, we were gathered to...
View ArticleIt's official: I cannot keep my doctor with the ACA
So, it's official: I cannot keep my medical team together with a marketplace policy through ACA in Indiana. I am a cancer survivor, 18 years post treatment and N.E.D. For the uninitiated, N.E.D = No...
View ArticleThe ACA: we deserve so much more
I belong to a sisterhood of survivors. Mostly breast cancer. We've lost many sisters along the way. Now we are the survivors, anxiously waiting for the Affordable Care Act to take us out of the limbo...
View ArticleACA: Exchange plan comparisons w/link & poll
Healthcare.gov appears to be down and many people are anxious to learn what their options are. Here's a link to a site to find out what's available in your state. Click your state on the map to get...
View ArticleRuni, the bio-feedback cat
Runi is a first rate bio-feedback cat. I used to think he was driving me crazy, now I know the truth: I've nearly killed him a time or two when my craziness takes control of both of our lives. That's...
View ArticleThe fix is in ... Indy Star Reports
Pence received a "fix" from legislative leaders today. While the "fix" deals exclusively with the LBGT issue it leaves the Hobby Lobby/Citizens United/Reproductive Rights issue embedded in the bill....
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