Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Inside a confessional [two stout monks / Flickr]
Stephen M. Bauer from New Jersey calls himself an ordinary Catholic. A Catholic whose guilt, it seems, includes his pre-Iraq-war thinking (via Ann Raber):
I am very disappointed in my own clarity of thinking just before the invasion of Iraq. Originally, I was opposed ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
This sarcastic engineer is armed with a calculator, and he's no fool. He tells John McCain that his proposed summer "gas-tax holiday" (which Clinton supports and Obama opposes) is ridiculous. The engineer figures it will save each American a grand total of 30 dollars. Which, compared to what we'll be ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Undecided [iluvrhinestones / Flickr]
Libertarian Jason Kuznicki is still undecided about how he'll vote in November. It's a tough election for libertarians because it's forcing them to weigh some core priorities: divided government, free trade, and withdrawal from Iraq. Kuznicki explains (thanks, Ann Raber):
So… depending on one’s priorities, a libertarian swing ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
If the city of Berkeley, CA, could vote in November, it would surely cast an anti-war ballot for the Democrat. In the ongoing struggle between its city council and its Marine Corps recruiting center, one of the latest moves was a pro-troops rally a month ago. The anonymous blogger ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Musician Desjon Deluxe describes himself as "just some guy with something to say." In this song, that something is a message to the candidates about addressing poverty (thanks, James Mills):
Desjon closes with a note: "Make up your own mind about the candidates, think for yourself..."
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
He dresses in a bright orange "highway volunteer" vest and haunts highway bridges. He's the Freeway Blogger. His mission: to end the Iraq war. His weapons of mass distribution (in addition to the web): cardboard, paint, bungee cords, and wit. Since 2004, he's displayed, on freeways all across the West, ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
This week General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker answered hours of questions from Senate and House committees about the status of Iraq. So, as a small bookend, here are the perspectives -- both discouraging and hopeful -- of some Iraqis on the state of their country.
First, via Sarolta Cump, ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
McCain, Clinton, and Obama (here and here) have all given big speeches recently to mark the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war. The Kibitzer, a midwestern Lutheran who is "temperamentally conservative with a weakness for radical politics," points out that both McCain and Obama are staking out moral positions on ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Via co-curator Ann Raber, a largely conservative student perspective -- from the University of Dallas and the University of Texas at Dallas -- on the Democratic candiates:
Sirmontag, who made the video, grew up in Dayton, OH, and currently lives in Dallas. He is a man of many hobbies, from blacksmithing ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Iraqi refugees in Syria [James Gordon / Flickr]
Iraqi Kurdish woman [James Gordon / Flickr]
Global Voices, which highlights bloggers from around the world, has developed a very cool election-08 project called Voices Without Votes. Its goal is a close cousin of ours: it focuses on citizen media created by non-Americans about ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
The Iraq war started five years ago yesterday. Here is one American's textured experience of it. Jayel Aheram is a 24-year-old active-duty Marine, a blogger, and an avid photographer. He's also a Ron Paul supporter, so it's easy to assume he might be against the war, but what he writes ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A Vermonter and self-described "housewife and homeschooling mom" had this to say last night after watching the Vermont primary results on TV:
On the Channel 17 exit interviews, when asked what comment she would write on her ballot for her elected officials, if she could, one woman said, “I would tell ...
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