The United States House of Representatives narrowly passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, on June 26, voting in favor of the most sweeping and comprehensive legislation aimed at controlling greenhouse gasses and energy independence ever to take the House floor.
And I voted for it.
That’s right, I levied all of the political [...]
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A Yea Vote for the Climate Bill
@aplusk A Big Thanks!
Fifty thousand mosquito nets later, I’m a fan of Ashton Kutcher and Twitter.
Setting off on his first to one million followers on Twitter versus CNN, Ashton Kutcher made a promise. Kutcher Tweeted that if he won, he would donate 10,000 mosquito nets to help fight malaria in Africa. CNN followed suite making the same promise.
Before, [...]
The Changing Face of Democracy
Not since the death of John Winthrop’s utopian “city on a hill” – with possibly the exception of President Bush extolling Iraqi freedom – has modern society envisioned the creation of a perfect democracy, but we try.
Last week we witnessed the first ever White House town hall meeting. More importantly, we witnessed the first ever [...]