BarCampDC: We Are Unintentionally Divided

BarCampDC2 was held on Oct. 18, I realize that is was also the day LifeTime aired their movie Living Proof. (I went to the screening but I will post that later). On a day that LifeTime airs a movie about a scientist testing for a breast cancer gene to attack a disease that [...]

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Voucher System in Education: D.C. is the New Battle Ground

Tonight’s presidential debate included the voucher system that has been implemented in D.C.. For those that don’t live in the nation’s capitol this maybe an unfamiliar topic. For those that live in the district and don’t have children in the public school system this topic is also very unfamiliar.
I can’t say that as a parent [...]

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Final Presidential Debate: Who’s Campaign is More Negative?

Sadly this question had to be asked. McCain continued to talk about Obama’s spending on his ad campaign that has been clearly more than the McCain Campaign. Current numbers estimate that Obama’s Campaign spends 4 million to 1 million of the McCain Campaign on ads. However, every campaign ad that McCain has put out is [...]

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Diverse Political Women & Social Media Panel @ BlogHerDC

BlogHer had their Reach Tour in DC (Bethesda) yesterday, just shortly after leaving their Boston Tour.
I moderated the the session Online Community Building for Political Action. The session focused on how much action can be taken at the screen vs. by stepping away from the screen. The panelists were PunditMom, Momocrat Joanne Bamberger, Liza [...]

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Who Is At Fault: Biden/Palin Debate

Ironically, Palin has said definitively said that the companies took advantage. This is clearly a change. She blamed uneducated consumers for choosing bad loans.
Biden states that Obama has been saying that the subprime lending was a problem, but that the constant voting of deregulation from McCain has caused some of our problems today.
When Palin [...]

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Gwen Ifill vs Sarah Palin Not Palin/Biden

Ironic how the Vice Presidential debate has moved to have Republican VP Nominee Sarah Palin compete against the Journalist Gwen Ifill instead of the Democratic VP Nominee Joe Biden. It seems Ifill is easier to take down than Biden since he has experience debating women for both the Presidential and VP slots. It looks like [...]

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The CorpWelfare Saga Continues: the Senate Votes “Yes”

Last night the Senate voted on a revised bill of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. They rejected the bill that failed the House vote by 12. Republicans were the largest opponents to that bill. The bill started out as four pages from President Bush with little to no oversight, to a version where the House [...]

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