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• Holidays Are Always A Good Time To Curl Up With A Good Book-- Here Are Some Suggestions From Some Members Of Congress

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 641
  I hope you get a chance to visit the DWT book store and music shop from time to time. In it youll find the books weve been reading and enjoying enough to recommend, from Idiot America , Bloggers On The Bus , Blinded By The Right and Dateline Havana to Family of Secrets , The Progressive Revolution and ...
  6 hours ago

• Watch: Congressman Jared Polis Cameo on Real World: D.C.

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 759
  Congressman Jared Polis has a cameo in the promo for the upcoming season of The Real World: D.C. . Looks as though one of the sexually-confused housemates wants to be his protégé. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP ... Real World XXIII: Washington DC - MTV Shows
  1 day ago

• House and Senate bobbleheads: They’re not offensive; they’re funny!

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  Apple said that the House and Senate shakeable bobbleheads application ridicules public figures and so Apple rejected it . Then last Monday, apparently, Apple rethought its position . Bobbleheads is silly, not mean spirited! It’s bipartisan foolery! Now you can download the bobblehead app for your iPhone and ...
  3 days ago

• Illegal Gatings In PJ Draw Fire

  
  Blog@Wengsan...??@?? — Authority: 119
  This is an email I received from a complainant who live in SS2, complaining about the setting-up of illegal gated and guarded community in SS2.Dear DAP leaders,The illegal gating has come too close to home.Now the illegal gaters is going to block up a road I used daily to and fro work and other places. SS2/74. And on ...
  4 days ago

• Jared Polis makes the Out 100 List

  
  MileHighGayGuy — Authority: 147
  U.S. Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass.; Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.; and Jared Polis, D-Colo. (pictured), have been named to Out magazines 2009 "Out 100 List" of LGBT movers and shakers . The three are described by Out as "fierce advocates" who "form a powerful, out triumvirate, wielding influence over the economy, social ...
  1 week ago

• Jeremy Hunt previews Tory view of Digital Britain

  
  Director's Blog — Authority: 124
  The event sponsor Jeremy Hunt MP came hotfoot (and late) out of a Shadow Cabinet meeting to tell a Polis audience how he would be responding to today’s Queen Speech if it included a Digital Communications Bill. His talk was remarkably open and direct for someone who might be merely months away from a seat at the ...
  1 week ago

• Crazy Cat Heckles Police Officer

  
  VorisTrip — Authority: 582
  Crazy Cat Heckles Police Officer
  1 week ago

• Cyburbia: How search engines are changing us

  
  Director's Blog — Authority: 124
  Cyburbia Cyburbia:   How search engines are changing us by Polis Intern Sally Walkerman is a report on a talk at Polis by James Harkin.   Although James Harkin writes about technological and social trends, Cyburbia is actually a sociological book about the history of ideas.   He points out that long ...
  1 week ago

• Kravallstaket lördag kväll och natt.

  
  Arbetsnamn — Authority: 154
  Så här har det sett ut kvällar och nätter på fredag och lördag  i Jönköping city de två senaste veckorna.  Barrikaderat, kravallstaket och polisbilar alldeles under vårt fönster.  Jag blev rejält skakig när jag tittade ut och fick se barrikaden . Vad sjutton har hänt? Vad väntar polisen på? ...
  1 week ago

• Polis launches new ‘techie and Trekie’ website

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  Jared Polis has come out of the closet: The internet millionaire, reality TV star and 2nd District U.S. Representative is also a Star Trek-loving geek! Today he announced that he has reworked his dot gov website to provide better resources and to more accurately reflect his personality. A Polis avatar walks across ...
  2 weeks ago

• Crisis? What Crisis? Polis in Sweden

  
  Director's Blog — Authority: 124
  It is sunny in Sweden Throughout my career I always avoided the liberal journalism cliche of going to Sweden to show a British audience how something should be done. ‘Here in Stockholm…’ was a phrase that never crossed my lips. Sweden and Scandinavia in general is a wealthy, culturally distinct exception to ...
  2 weeks ago

• GarCo commissioners vote 2-1 to oppose DeGette’s FRAC Act

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  A grass-roots citizen’s group troubled by air and water pollution from natural gas drilling in Garfield County expressed “extreme disappointment” Monday when the county commissioners voted 2-1 to oppose more federal oversight of the industry. Republican county commissioners Mike Samson and John Martin approved ...
  2 weeks ago

• New York report blasts gas industry as GarCo weighs FRAC Act resolution

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  Even as the Garfield County commissioners today take up debate on a resolution regarding the FRAC (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) Act, an environmental researcher in New York released a damning report on the natural gas industry in that state. Drilling pads on the Roan Plateau The FRAC ...
  2 weeks ago

• My mum was an immigrant: she’s gone now but the love remains

  
  Director's Blog — Authority: 124
  [This is the text of the funeral oration I delivered at my mothers funeral] Erika Beckett 1925-2009 My mum was an immigrant. She came to this country out of history. She was born into an age where the car and the phone were still novel. She grew to adulthood through the darkest period of Europe’s recent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Salazar flooded with support for ban on Grand Canyon uranium mining

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  In 2003, there were a mere 100 mining claims in the million or so acres of public land surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. Now there are more than 8,500 – mostly for uranium – with more than 1,100 claims less than five miles from arguably America’s most iconic national park . Late last week, Interior ...
  2 weeks ago

• Colorado reps support Israel war crimes

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 488
  All 7 of Colorado’s US representatives voted to put their congressional stamp of approval on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, joining 337 more yeas for House Resolution 867, Calling on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the “Report of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Polis weighs into fray over ‘Hidden Gems’ wilderness proposal

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-Boulder) is clearly trying to head off health care town hall-style lynch mobs at the pass by getting out in front of the broiling rhetoric over the proposed “Hidden Gems” wilderness plan . The proposal is still being drafted – and seeking a congressional sponsor – but basically ...
  3 weeks ago

• Denver Blogs: Sperm + Egg doesnt equal big donations

  
  The Latest Word — Authority: 663
  Local blogs for locals like you.Former Colorado Independent staffer Wendy Norris launches Western Citizen, her new online news project, with a story about the tough financial times being ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dr. Asri ditahan, apakah sebabnya?

  
  Pendapat Kritis — Authority: 118
  Alasan JAIS menahan Dr. Asri, bekas Mufti kerajaan negeri Perlis, atas sebab beliau tidak mempunyai “tauliah” untuk mengajar agama di Selangor adalah satu alasan yang, pada saya, amat naif dan dibuat-buat. Kita maklum bahawa baru-baru ini, Ketua Dewan Ulama PAS Dato’ Harun Taib telah pergi berjumpa dengan beliau ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unlocking China

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 513
  Polis Charlie Beckett is currently out in Shanghai and writes an interesting post on whether the new media business is changing the politics of China? The media industry here appears to be booming but scratch under the surface and you realise that even the political authorities fear that there are too many ...
  3 weeks ago

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