Barack Obama laid out his new energy plan today. David Roberts of Grist did some pre-speech musing on Obama’s proposal on Grist this morning saying that it appears to be ”a fairly bold proposal, worth cheering.” Key points of Obama’s plan “to combat global warming and achieve energy security” include: Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the level recommended by top scientists to avoid calamitous impacts. Invest $150 billion over the next ten years to...
Daily Archives: October 8, 2007 4:30 pm
Funding The Red District Campaign Part One
Note: This was originally posted at the old DemDaily blog. The re-edited version is posted at the new improved DemDaily as it’s intended to be Part One of a series on Red District fundraising. What is most difficult part of organizing the viable Red District Campaign? It is creating seed money funding and the resultant hiring of professional staff. When running against well-funded professionals, the Democratic Candidate needs professionals in his campaign as well. So it boils down to...
Will Al Gore be Awarded the Nobel?
The a lot of speculation brewing over whether Al Gore will be awarded the Nobel peace Prize this Friday and if he does win the Nobel… Will he jump into the ’08 race for president? Al Gore is being tipped as a favourite to win the Nobel peace prize in Oslo this Friday in a controversial move that could place saving the planet above saving people from war and conflict. Gore, a former American vice-president and failed presidential candidate,...
Everybody Needs A Hobby
When not trying to get Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic, fired, the rival Weekly Standard‘s blogger, Michael Goldfarb, shakes those pom-poms and high kicks rather strenuously for war, death and the continued occupation of a country that never did anything to harm us. This is, perhaps, not surprising, considering WHO the Weekly Standard speaks for. According to SourceWatch: Sphere: Related Content
Settling In To Our New Home
Dear Readers: Please bear with us as we continue unpacking and settling in to our new home. There still a lot of work to do to complete the new Dem Daily Blog including adding our blogroll, syncing up our newsfeeds and alerting all our friends in the sphere. Please bookmark our new blog, add us to your Technorati favorites and and login and get involved. The old blog will remain online with all archives accessible for our readers, but...
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