Impulse

The FISA Amendments Act comes up for a vote tomorrow in the Senate. For those not in the know: FISA extends the 4th Amendment so that wiretapping or electronic surveillance requires a warrant. The Amendments Act coming up tomorrow guts FISA so that the executive branch can listen to your phone conversations without a warrant. At issue here too is whether or not the telecoms who allowed warrantless wiretaps (even before 9/11!!!) should be granted immunity. Here’s some interesting info & things you can do.

Continue reading "Sticking to first principles"

Posted by Rob McKaughan in Politics at 11:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

It’s official: I’ve decided to support Obama in the upcoming election.  More than that: I’m a delegate! I’ll be going to the county caucus to turn in my vote and choose a state convention delegate (I’d love to go to the state convention, but I’m booked to shoot a wedding that day).  By my math, my delegate vote represents votes for 19.67 people in my neighborhood. 

Continue reading "Vote Obama"

Posted by Rob McKaughan in Politics at 07:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This is a very cool video.   I haven’t made my final decision yet (we caucus on Feb 9th in Washington), but I’ve been leaning pretty far towards the Obama camp.  This certainly is an interesting race, bringing up a lot of pent-up needs: optimism, change, pragmatism, change, integrity, change, altruism, change, leadership, change. 

Posted by Rob McKaughan in Politics at 01:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)