Online Activism Archive
Members of Congress have said they’ve been threatened with retribution for not voting for John Boehner for Speaker of the House. We are hours away from the vote count. Now is your chance, if you can get through, to let your congressman/woman know your
The United States is hitting North Korea with a new economic sanctions despite evidence that points instead to former employees of the studio. What an embarrassing series of moves by the U.S. government! Even mainstream media has been reporting that North Korea was likely
CHUCK TODD, MEET THE PRESS: The establishment, AKA, donors, they want one of those three [Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Chris Christie]. The grassroots: they’re not interested in any of those three. They’re very unpopular with the people who actually vote in Republican primaries, the
Don’t doubt the influence of Matt Drudge. (Scroll down for video and poll featuring Rand Paul, the only candidate with ‘less baggage.’) According to Quantcast, the Drudge Report sees a steady stream of more than 2 million unique visitors daily. For publishers, the distribution
And it’s more than just Twitter. Senator Paul just penned this op-ed in TIME: I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and
Rand Paul has taken a temporarily unpopular (within the Republican establishment) position on normalizing relations with Cuba–breaking rank with all of the neocons. Senator Paul deserves credit for embarking on a brave stance on this issue against the illogical and hypocritical grain of the
Senator Rand Paul and Sec. John Kerry get into a much needed and slightly heated debate on war authority. Things start to get really good around 4:29: KERRY: We have some of the most extraordinary self-imposed restraints on our checklists…for where and when and
You can read the full (very much censored) report below. Isn’t it ironic to see neo-conservatives and statists suddenly very concerned about blowback–a word they usually want to avoid? Some unfortunate highlights from the report… Detainees were deprived of sleep for as long as
First off, this clip is over a year old, but it has come into the spotlight again as a new challenge to Obamacare makes it’s way through the court system. The quote from Obamacare architect and MIT economics professor, Jonathan Gruber brings into vivid
Conservative activist, James O’Keefe, must be hitting all of the right buttons in the liberal blogosphere because the mask is off. Many over at the crazed website appear to want him dead–really dead. Here’s a selection of their choice comments–screen captured for all to
