http://www.shadowdemocracy.org Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:35:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm blogging again - for better or worse. The link to the new blog is http://www.capitolstreet.wordpress.com We are posting new material everyday and will also be re-posting some favorites from this blog.Share This http://www.shadowdemocracy.org/2008/06/06/check-out-my-new-blog-capitol-street-on-wordpress/ After some very careful consideration, I have decided to shut down the Shadow Democracy blog. My reasons are diverse - some very personal. I feel compelled to offer a brief explanation to my readers for this decision. Recent months have seen some dramatic events in my life, including the death of ... http://www.shadowdemocracy.org/2008/03/21/shadow-democracy-signing-off/   One of Hillary Clinton’s last lines of defense against the onslaught that is Barack Obama in her continual effort to alter her message in order to gain some traction, is the notion that she has been “vetted” and he has not. In other words, she has been through the grinder, ... http://www.shadowdemocracy.org/2008/02/14/hillarys-biggest-problem-continues-to-be-hillary/ The big showdown has been brewing for weeks after the Berkeley city council voted to ask the Marines Corp. to close the recruiting station downtown near the UC Berkeley campus because they are "unwelcome intruders". The issue has been the city not wanting the Marines to recruit their young people ... http://www.shadowdemocracy.org/2008/02/12/huge-protests-tonight-at-berkeley-city-council-meeting-over-military-recruiting/   This is article #10 in a 10 part series that will appear each Sunday: Does God Have a Future? Digest of past articles… Link to article #1 here… Does God Have a Future? Part 1…An Introduction Link to article #2 here…Does God Have a Future? Part 2…The Conundrum Between Spirituality, Religion, and God Link ... http://www.shadowdemocracy.org/2008/02/11/does-god-have-a-future-part-10conclusions/ Why should he? Another day, another win for Huckabee in Kansas. If you talk to him, it's just another day at the office in fulfilling his goal of coming from behind, riding the back of disgruntled conservatives who simply despise McCain, and pulling even in delegates (if Romney throws him his support ... http://www.shadowdemocracy.org/2008/02/09/why-huckabee-wont-go-away-quietly/ I can't turn on any political talk show post Super Tuesday without hearing how great Ronald Reagan was, and how McCain must convince Reagan conservatives that he is one of them, and how Reagan is the Republican ideal, blah, blah, blah. [UPDATE FOR CONSERVATIVES...] Reagan wasn't that great of a president, and ... http://www.shadowdemocracy.org/2008/02/07/what-is-up-with-all-this-reagan-talk-he-wasnt-that-great/ Barack Obama just won Connecticut two minutes ago and has offset Clinton's win in Massachusetts. As I thought and predicted, Senator Obama is racking up several small states to offset Senator Clinton's lead in larger states. So does it come down to California? It seems so. The only thing that can push ... http://www.shadowdemocracy.org/2008/02/05/obama-and-clinton-trade-counter-puncheshuckabee-no-surprise-down-south/   A surge of support that has been building for over three months for Barack Obama has catapulted him into a virtual tie with Hillary Rodham Clinton in California's Democratic presidential primary. A Zogby poll shows Obama coming from over 30 points down to tie or even lead Clinton...and that must have the Clinton ... http://www.shadowdemocracy.org/2008/02/05/california-could-be-the-knock-out-blow-for-obama/ Don't look for a Democrat or Republican coronation of any presidential nominees on Super Tuesday, 2008. The math doesn't add up. The race for delegates is extremely close in both parties - the closest in thirty years, and it is mathematically impossible for any candidate to lock up the nomination on Feb. 5.  Here's why:   Hillary Clinton ... http://www.shadowdemocracy.org/2008/02/05/delegate-math-super-tuesday-will-not-lock-up-2008-races/