Issuepedia:Filing Room/to file/2008

• 2008-09-12
  • posted by anon IP with spammish headers, but the links are relevant:
    • Candidates Promise National-Service Initiatives
    • Palin Endorses Idea McCain Called "Naive" “GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin tonight appeared to back Barack Obama's assertion that the United States could attack targets in Pakistan without the country's permission -- a position that her running mate Sen. John McCain has called "naïve."” Did Obama actually say that??!
      • Obama Delivers Bold Speech About War on Terror: apparently he did, sort of -- he was talking about crossing the border to go after terrorists, not invading the country per se (link found by Draz)
  • from Draz:
    • Ballot snafu endangers votes
• 2008-04-13 (found; from 2006-07-21) The table on this page clarifies the relationships between all the various different terms used to describe time in Earth's prehistory.
• 2008-04-04 Anti-Discrimination or Anti-Information?: is this a case of anti-discrimination laws cutting both ways, or a misinterpretation of them? Who, if anybody, is being served by this decision?
• 2008-02-18 BNP's website 'the most popular in politics': apparently the UK's far-right web site is by far the most popular of the political web sites because of the degree of its interactivity: "The report ... claims the site has flourished because it allows visitors to leave messages and interact with one another." This seems related to my point about political/activism web sites basically setting the agenda ahead of time, rather than allowing their members to arrive at a consensus on what they actually want to do.
• Monsanto Terminator Technology -- Worldwide Famine & Starvation: no date; any other sources for this information?
• http://www.roadtopeace.org/research.php?itemid=924&catid=54 -- need a filing form for quotes, e.g. the Jefferson should go under both Thomas Jefferson and religion
• http://www.roadtopeace.org/index.php?itemid=903&catid=52 -- (non-dated link filer) file under Benjamin Franklin, US Constitution
• http://www.roadtopeace.org/ -- some interesting ideas, though the writing (and editing) could be better
  • this is apparently one of the authors
• 2007-12-04 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/IL04Aa01.html -- claims that Muslim apostates gravitate more towards atheism than apostates of other religions... or something like that.
• http://reason.com/news/show/122457.html -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali interview