Get your red-hot World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002 materials from the US State Department web site:
Secretary Powell leads a high-level, inter-agency, U.S. delegation to the summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. The summit is being held August 26-September 4, 2002. The following provides reference information on U.S. initiatives, programs, and policies relevant to the [...]
The discussion on the Berman/Coble P2P Hacking Bill and how to stop it is heating up, with posts from Doc Searls, Winer, Ed Cone, and John Adams.
Winer claims he’s not actually endorsed Grubb, but is interested in her campaign only to the extent that it might illustrate something about weblogs and politics:
I have [...]
The worst legislative acts generally come from an infrequently-formed coalition of religious conservatives and ultra-liberals. Since the only thing these groups have in common is a desire to get re-elected, the bills produced by their coalition can generally be counted on to protect the incumbency, to demagogue an issue pertaining to women and children, or [...]
Via Rough&Tumble, a new PPIC poll shows Davis widening his lead:
When Davis outpolls Simon on ethics, you know GOP is in a jam — Score the summer round for Gov. Gray Davis. A new poll shows just how one-sided this contest has been. It’s not merely that Davis leads Bill Simon by 11 percentage points [...]
Internet provider and mega-telecom company Verizon goes toe-to-toe with Hollywood. Read an interview with chief counsel Sarah Deutsch in Tech News – CNET.com
Now consumers have a powerful new ally. Verizon and other telecommunications giants have ordered their phalanx of lobbyists to oppose the entertainment industry’s demands for new copyright laws. The company is also fighting [...]
Greg Knauss isn’t impressed with Dave Winer’s blog campaign to elect Libertarian Party candidate Tara Sue Grubb to Congress:
All this means that Tara Sue Grubb really is the “weblog candidate.” She’s an empty page, capable of being filled in with whatever people like Dave Winer and his philosophical bedmates want to see. He can [...]
Simon May Be Making History, but for All the Wrong Reasons
The question political junkies are asking is: Has there ever been a worse campaign for governor of California than Bill Simon’s?
Has there ever been a worse candidate?
That is, a sorrier gubernatorial nominee of either the Republican or Democratic party?
Can’t think of any, is the consensus [...]
The Georgia primaries couldn’t have turned out much better, with nutcases Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr going down decisively to more moderate opponents. PhotoDude’s Web Log: Brain Dump & Pixel Pile has a great blow-by-blow of early returns in the McKinney-Majette race, for his own personal district:
Denise Majette, a virtually unknown local judge when she [...]
Bill Simon speechwriter Jonathan Wilcox urges Californians not to give up on Bill Simon yet:
Not for the first time, the liberal media has California all wrong. And for the umpteenth time, California Republicans seem prepared to believe it.
In reality, the California governor’s race remains Bill Simon’s to lose, and absent major mistakes, he will win.
Unfortunately, [...]
Virginia Postrel has a cool column in the NY Times titled The Rich Get Rich and Poor Get Poorer. Or Do They? that takes apart the anti-capitalist claim about globalization ransacking the Third World. It’s not really so:
In 1970, global income distribution peaked at about $1,000 in today’s dollars, a common measure of poverty ($2 [...]
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