PolITiGenomics

Fair Elections Now Act

Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Please consider writing your representatives in Congress to support the Fair Elections Now Act (S. 752 and H.R. 1286); a bill that will greatly limit the damage done by the ... Read more..

Bad Influence

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

I'm not talking about Rob Lowe, but about the corrupting influence of money in politics. Watch the talk Lawrence Lessig recently gave at the conservative Cato Institute to learn how ... Read more..

Corporate governance

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

There really are not words to describe the Supreme Court's decision yesterday to undo decades of court decisions and over a century of campaign finance law. Fortunately, some people ... Read more..

Health care expansion expands more than just coverage

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Posted in politics | 1 Comment »

Fareed Zakaria is one of those rare news analysts that has a deep understanding of issues and is able to distill complex topics into their most salient points. Early this ... Read more..

The End of Idealism

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

To many it seems that idealism and partisan rancor in politics is at an all time high. While the latter may be true, the former is not. Over the last ... Read more..

Change Congress

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Below is an email from Lawrence Lessig of Change Congress. The Senate passed its health care bill last week, and as you may have noticed, the final version looks quite different ... Read more..

For the people?

Friday, November 13th, 2009 Posted in politics | 1 Comment »

Why are Sens. Lieberman and Bayh threatening to filibuster health care bills if they contain a "public option"? Well, both Senators and their wives receive large sums of money from ... Read more..

I’m not feeling well today

Thursday, October 1st, 2009 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Yesterday the Senate Finance Committee, dominated by Democrats, failed to pass amendments to the health care bill that would have added a public health insurance option. It is worth ... Read more..

Justice served?

Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in IT, politics | No Comments »

Despite talk of the power of all those small donors, it seems, not surprisingly, that big money has not lost all influence in Washington. President-elect Obama has selected one of ... Read more..

Self-Swiftboating

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Lawrence Lessig has an interesting take on the recent dust up over Sen. Obama's positions on campaign financing and telecom immunity. In short, the Obama campaign is attacking Sen. Obama's ... Read more..