By ottonomy on August 19, 2010
When I first heard the kerfuffle about the “Ground Zero Mosque,” I figured it would blow right over. Lower Manhattan is a big place, and there are plenty of establishments within a half dozen stone’s throws from Ground Zero. But American intolerance for Islam always does seem to sneak up on me. The story just [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged 1st Amendment, mosque, obama, religion |
By ottonomy on July 18, 2010
I keep seeing Christopher Hayes’ “Deficits of Mass Destruction” article from The Nation pushed among my contacts. This isn’t a surprise, because I follow the magazine’s editor Katrina vandenHeuvel on Twitter. But now it also popped into my email from MoveOn, the progressive lobbying group. It’s an example to me of the failure of the Democrats [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged economy, growth, sustainability |
By ottonomy on June 19, 2010
I watched Bill Maher’s show and the “overtime” extended discussion from Friday (Guests: Bill Frist, Jon Meacham, Rachel Maddow, Queen Noor, Oliver Stone so you know it’ll be a heckuva debate). Bill Frist’s point on health reform that Republicans didn’t have a place at the table on reform and so they would be justified in [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged health_care, oregon, Politics |
By ottonomy on May 11, 2010
I watched the replay of KATU’s Republican gubernatorial debate recently. The stage was packed with nine candidates vying for the chance to challenge Kitzhaber or Bradbury in this fall’s general election. Their answers to a question about what the governor’s role in climate change left me wondering: Several candidates’ main response to the global warming [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged 2010 election, environmentalism, oregon, republicans |
By ottonomy on October 9, 2009
I was recently asked to describe how the proposed government competition in the health care market (represented by the “public option” would affect health care costs. I wrote the following to illustrate that the issue is not a simple question of free market vs. government control. Theoretically competition would encourage private insurers to reduce their [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged health_care |
By ottonomy on September 27, 2009
What is the value of a journalism outlet that abandons objectivity? Eric Odom, founder of American Liberty Alliance (ALA), the group that launched and organized the tea party movement across the country, announced Friday what he calls a movement-minded news portal and his answer to the the Huffington Post. Read more at Dawn Teo’s blog [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged curation, media, objectivity, transparency |
By ottonomy on August 24, 2009
Paul Krugman recently wrote a good article on health care, in surprise that Obama and the Democrats didn’t expectsome resistance from the left after bailing out chummy banks and rolling over on health care (among other “compromises”). Specifically: “Until the idea of the public option came along, a significant faction within the party rejected anything [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged health_care, obama |
By ottonomy on June 30, 2009
This rant was written in response to a column by the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz. She argues that Internet news aggregation is killing traditional newspapers and that dismantling the public’s right to quote the day’s news articles is the solution to maintain newspapers’ profitability. She quotes her paper’s lawyer: “It’s unfair competition with unjust [...]
Posted in Free Culture, Politics | Tagged journalism, media |
By ottonomy on April 19, 2009
Members of Bush’s policy team met with the former president in Dallas this week. Former Press Secretary Scott McClellan says that this meeting was about framing the Bush era policy decisions to establish a rosy view of his legacy, using the same strategies they used to sell us the Iraq war in the first place. [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged news, torture |
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