Mar 30
By Meredith Gessup, TheBlaze.com
The dawn of the 21st century has bid farewell to pen and paper communications and opened the door to digital pokes, likes and status updates.
If you don’t know what those terms means, there‘s a good chance you’re now in the minority of Americans who have not logged on to Facebook, the world’s most popular social media website. According to a new national survey, 51 percent of Americans … Read more
Mar 22
By Star Parker, Townhall.com
The facedown in Congress on the federal budget must be about principles as well as absolute spending. No drunk will sober up if he only thinks about how much he drinks and not about why.
There is nothing more repugnant and flagrantly misplaced in the federal budget than the $360 million taxpayers annually send to Planned Parenthood. If we can’t eliminate this, it means either that the nation … Read more
Mar 18
by Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project
More than half of all American adults were online political users in 2010
Fully 73% of adult internet users (representing 54% of all U.S. adults) went online to get news or information about the 2010 midterm elections, or to get involved in the campaign in one way or another. We refer to these individuals as “online political users” and our … Read more
Mar 01
By Micah L. Sifry, techPresident
With ABC News reporting that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is about to become the first Republican to formally throw his hat into the 2012 presidential sweepstakes by creating a “presidential exploratory committee,” we here at techPresident thought it might not hurt to pull together some baseline information about his online presence.
Speaker Gingrich, whom everyone refers to as “Newt”–which we will too, for simplicity’s sake–has several … Read more
Feb 22
BY GREGORY FERENSTEIN, Fast Company
The office of Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor has just launched a Quora question to tap the Fast Company audience’s collective intelligence. Cantor hopes the crowd can help him flip one of the last stones unturned in the recent wave of eDemocracy: legislation. Aside from a handful of experiments, such as an uneventful attempt at wiki-style legislation in Brazil, few have been able to successfully merge … Read more
