politics

Defined in Webster's Dictionary as the art or science of government, or concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy or winning and holding control over a government. Politics can also describe the art of guidance and influence outside the realm of government, such as office politics, industry politics or social politics.

A good rule of thumb for making friends and influencing people is "never discuss religion, sex or politics." But those who hold court in the blogosphere violate such etiquette 24/7. Counter-intuitive to the long-held notion of conversation fit for polite company, politics is a prominent Internet topic specifically because of its controversial nature.

Unfortunately, many who engage in political discourse often feel free to throw etiquette to the wind. Rather than affably promote the free exchange of ideas, such people often resort to personal attacks, diminishing the quality of their opinion and transforming platforms for meaningful exchange into childish free-for-alls.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “politics”

• in Lifestyle
  California Water Crisis
  California is a futurist state that continues to meet its water crisis head on with meager action.
  by breetreport / on Nov 13, 2009
• in Politics
  Obama Supporter Down for the Count in Dayton
  Forget Virginia and New Jersey. Ohio is the bellwether for America.
  by LeoOfMars / on Nov 4, 2009
• in Politics
  Randy Cohen Wonders If Americans Must Vote
  I agree that uninformed voters can disrupt an election, but I am amazed that anyone would push for people to not vote.
  by fcgorman / on Nov 3, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “politics”

• Mark Olsen, author Animal Colony - Nov 24,2009

  
  The Andrea Shea King Show on Blog Talk Radio — Authority: 422
  A unique American retelling of ANIMAL FARM, ANIMAL COLONY tells how Jamestowns animals flee captivity for a Promised Land of liberty and prosperity, only to find themselves in an altogether different predicament.
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• BJP attacks government, seeks tabling of Liberhan report

  
  Australia India Sri Lanka South Asia News — Authority: 149
  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday launched a scathing attack on the government, demanding the immediate tabling in parliament of the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry report that has reportedly indicted its leaders in the 1992 razing of the Babri mosque. Led by BJP leader L.K. Advani, the party — both ...
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• Sri Lanka to hold presidential poll: officials

  
  Australia India Sri Lanka South Asia News — Authority: 149
  Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has decided to opt for a presidential election two years ahead of schedule, government sources said Monday. Officials said the president had signed the proclamation calling for early presidential election, Xinhua reported. Rajapakse conveyed his decision to leaders of his ...
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• Shocker. Liberal media actually admits Palin more experienced than Obama. Slate.com.

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  Barack Obama didnt have a lot of bread-and-butter accomplishments to point to, either. He had, in fact, less governing experience than Palin already has. So experience can be gotten around. Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• Exploring climate change and its effects on the world’s children

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  During 2006,major international humanitarian assistance was required for 8 million people whose lives were threatened in drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia – including around 1.6 million children under the age of five.1 Because of climate change areas that have previously ...
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• Patrick Kennedy Publicly Takes on His Church, Once Again

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  PROVIDENCE, RI (Catholic Online) - Senator Patrick Kennedy whose open defiance over the teaching of the Catholic Church concerning the inviolable dignity of every human life has resulted in a longstanding dialogue with his Bishop, reopened the public debate in an odd interview on Sunday. He gave a telephone interview ...
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• Chinese critic on quake response gets 3 years

  
  Zichi Lorentz Artosphere — Authority: 140
  A Chinese court on Monday sentenced to three years in prison a veteran dissident who had criticized the governments response to a 2008 earthquake that killed about 90,000 people. Huang Qi was convicted of illegally possessing state secrets by the Wuhou district court in the western city of Chengdu, his wife Zeng Li ...
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• What goes into making a climate headline? The science side...

  
  GreenPassion.org - Dedicated to Medicinal Cannabis Cultivation and Education. — Authority: 164
  YouTube - Rachel Pike: The science behind a climate headline (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlyorcJ28UA)something tells me that the exxon run anti-environmental science groups dont quite go to this much trouble to collect and verfiy data.
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• Jon Stewart is a F%$#ing Genius, Republicans Giving Aid and Comfort to Terrorists Edition

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 451
  Its only 7¼ minutes, just watch it.
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• (UK) Governments fat police turn their attention to fish and chips

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  Fast food vendors will be told to offer low-fat fish and chips and "diet" kebabs in a Government healthy-eating campaign. Takeaway restaurants are to receive guidelines as part of the campaign to improve the nutritional value of meals eaten outside of the home, following a report for the Governments food watchdog, the ...
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• Dollar Falls Vs Euro, Yen On Bullards Comments

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  SINGAPORE (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. dollar fell against the euro and the yen in Asia Monday, after a top U.S. Federal Reserve official said he would prefer to keep the central banks asset-buying program active beyond its current cut-off date. In an interview with Dow Jones Newswires, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ...
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• The multi-million pound bribe to send foreign criminals home

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  The taxpayer is having to fund millions of pounds a year to "bribe" foreign murderers, rapists and other prisoners to go home after a 60 per cent jump in cases. One in four of the foreign criminals who were deported last year only went home after being offered a voluntary return package worth up to £5,000. It means ...
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• The Quinn & Rose Morning Radio Show Live Thread, November 23, 2009

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  Join us in the Warroom from 6 to 9 every morning on www.wpgb.com or listen online at: http://streamingradioguide.com/streaming-radio-shows.php?sformat=1&radio-format=Political%20Opinion http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-show.php?show=2238 Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• Hostility between British and American military leaders revealed

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  The deep hostility of Britain’s senior military commanders in Iraq towards their American allies has been revealed in classified Government documents leaked to the Daily Telegraph. In the papers, the British chief of staff in Iraq, Colonel J.K.Tanner, described his US military counterparts as “a group of Martians” ...
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• The Painfully Pointless War on Weed

  
  The Head On Radio Network — Authority: 126
  Courtesy Alternet: You might remember Robert McNamara’s stunning mea culpa, delivered a quarter century after his Vietnam War policies sent some 50,000 Americans (and even more horrendous numbers of Vietnamese) to their deaths in that disastrous war. In his  1995 memoir , the man who had been a cold, calculating ...
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• How well is the Mets Operation Blunt 2 working?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Is stop and search having a positive effect on knife crime? The Islington Gazette reported recently that "nearly 9,500 young people under 18 were stopped and searched by Islington police in 2008...an average of 180 a week." The paper added that this was the sixth highest rate across Londons 32 boroughs and ...
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• Green energy stimulus growing few jobs

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  "Green energy" is proving to be no miracle solution to the nations monumental unemployment problems, and it is doing little to help the economy emerge from its deepest recession in decades, economists say. A large part of the $786 billion stimulus bill was devoted to green or renewable energy projects, with President ...
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• Has David Cameron left it too late to get serious?

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 813
  For what it is worth, I do not believe the Ipsos Mori poll showing the Tory lead down to six points. Given the general disgust with the Brown government and the disastrous press that the Queen’s Speech received last week, I can see no earthly reason why Labour’s poll rating should have leapt by five ...
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• BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition: Philippines election attack ‘kills 21′

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 468
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition , available at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition . Twenty-one people abducted in the southern Philippines are found dead in a row linked to upcoming elections, the military says.
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• BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition: Standards MP defends homes claims

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 468
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition , available at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition . Another member of MPs standards body defends his expenses after reports he "flipped" claims between two homes.
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