Okay, not me personally–if you’ve read my blog enough, you can probably figure out almost all of my political principles. Instead, an interesting–certainly interesting to me as an Asian American–new poll is out from Gallup on the political leanings of Asian Americans. Overall, 41% of Asians identify politically as Democrats, 41% as independents, and 16% …
Jim Wallis says that budgets are moral documents, and that how we spend our money shows what our values are. Introduced today, President Obama’s $3.83 trillion budget treads a delicate balance between trying to get the economy going again and trying to bring down the massive inherited budget deficit.* Anyway, the budget for FY 2011 …
… at least in my opinion. Today, he spoke at the House Republican retreat, including a Q&A, which follows. It was awesome.
News It’s Election Day 2009, with a number of races of note going on, including in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York. James Dobson steps down from Focus on the Family. Politics While Republicans are focused on stopping the Democrats’ larger legislative plans–health-care reform, finance reform, climate change–the latter are pushing through a lot of …
Today is International Day of Peace. And the first official day of fall. News Unemployment in California hits 12%, the highest rate in 70 years. General McChrystal requests more troops in Afghanistan. The President’s media blitz yesterday. Here’s a snippet: Obama on health care: Health care A new Harvard study links 45,000 U.S. deaths with …