Sunlight Foundation starts new blog: congress meet wikipedia!
the Sunlight Foundation has opened it's new blog for business! this new blog is a user driven wikipedia on all members of congress - a review of what WE think of them, their actions, their funding,...
View ArticleCongresspedia and Sunlight at the Conservative Political Action Conference
I'm at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC representing Congresspedia and the Sunlight Foundation. So far it's been a great opportunity to tap into the conservative...
View ArticleCongressional Corruption Cases at Issue in Attorney Firings
Guest poster: Paul Blumenthal of the Sunlight Foundation:The controversy around the firing of several U.S. attorneys in December has dominated the news coming out of Congress this week and...
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Project Sunlight Makes History in New York
A huge development for open government has taken place this afternoon. After a year of planning and building, the Sunlight Project in New York has launched its web site.Although the site itself is...
View ArticleACTION: Tell Congress to Read the Bill Before Voting On It!
How hard is it to figure out what is in a 451-page, just released bill? Pretty complicated if you take a look at the back-and-forth between FleetAdmiralJ, Hunter, and the 600 some odd comments flying...
View ArticleGot an idea for how to make government transparent and open? Obama wants your...
Obama is finally getting off the ground a grand project that should have happened a long time ago: making the federal government communicative, open, and transparent, bringing the White House into the...
View ArticleBaby Skimmers & Life is Beautiful!
The nesting black skimmers have hatched their eggs and the babies are absolutely adorable and irresistably cute:http://www.flickr.com/...In addition there are baby pelicans, newly hatched snowy egrets...
View Articlefive am solstice haiku
perhaps it's only that I'm not sleeping. soelectric signals deprived might jangle upagainst cold hard shards of barren betrayal.or not. could it really be that bitternessis not the correct answer? be...
View ArticleTime to Focus on Grover Norquist
The stories just out now are conflicting that Grover Norquist either did or did not give the GOP cover to raise taxes.The story that we should be pushing loudly and angrily is WHO THE FUCK IS GROVER...
View ArticleA Victory For Sunlight And Accountability At The Energy Commission
They say you cannot fight city hall, but recently some folks unhappy with the California Energy Commission's decision to give hydrogen-fueling station contracts only to bidders approved by the major...
View ArticleNew York Times Editors: OK Let's have a Real Debate
I've generally taken President Obama at his word. He inherited a very messed-up situation, and near as I can tell he has done his level best to deal with it. With next to no help from the bull-headed...
View ArticleDarrell Issa What?
Need insight into another facet of this human. We know his character well from such shows as "Get the IRS Because They Work for Obama", and besides, taxes, and "When All "You Have is Benghazi, Work It...
View ArticleSince Creationists are confusing Cosmology & Evolution...
We are stardust that's animated by sunlight. All of the atoms that make up our bodies and our world were once part of a star - probably parts of several stars. All the elements other than Hydrogen were...
View ArticleThe Weekly Weigh-In: Spring is Coming! & A Challenge
My car thermometer didn't get above 29 yesterday, but with the sun and (relative) warmth, it felt much warmer to me. Daylight Saving Time begins this weekend. Spring is finally coming. Going to get...
View ArticleLiberté, égalité, sororité?
The burqua. Should it be banned?For many Muslim women, recent converts in particular, the burqua is a public proclamation of their faith, and worn with pride. I am from an alien culture whose...
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The Eloquence of Light
My head is stretched from the inside on a long pull. Stale crackers itch in the deadness of my ear. My disassembly is in progress. Scratch and rattle, pulled down, skinned like an onion. Pulled open...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - golden November light
Winter sunlight in the Pacific Northwest is brief and slants low on the horizon even at midday. Near sunset sometimes it casts a feeble golden glow for a few minutes that gives the air a warmth belying...
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Connect! Unite! Act! Asheville, Kansas, Raleigh, Missouri, NYC & NN16...
The Interactive MAP in FULL SCREENThe orange pinpoints are the location of each organized group of Daily Kos readers. If you'd like to join a group, click on a point and a box will pop up showing...
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Morning Open Thread: Life Out-of-Focus - the MYOPIA Boom
Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who choose the topic for the day's posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful,...
View ArticleThe Mueller Report DID NOT say that ...
—"So now the Radical Left Dems don't talk about Collusion anymore, because the Mueller Report said there was No Collusion, they only want to talk about Obstruction, even though there was No Obstruction...
View ArticleHow Beautiful the Sunset, How? Plus an unexpected bonus.
How Beautiful the Sunset, How?As I watched the most beautiful of sunsetsFor this yearThe red, oranges, yellows, hints of green and brown, purple and gray,I wondered if the yellow into orange came...
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"Who is Q?" ... plus a few "Intelligent" conjectures on the Subject
— Now if only Donald Trump … “wanted what was best for America” — we all could go back to our ‘regularly scheduled’ lives ...Donald Trump has welcomed the support of QAnon conspiracy theorists,...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Amicus: SCOTUS' New Public Comment Period
We hold the following truths as self-evident:1. No one ever will trust future draft opinions to remain confidential.2. Security through obscurity creates insecurity.3. The confidential jurisprudence...
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