redistricting

A congressional bill setting standards for redistricting all states objectively at the same time: H.R. 2642 and 4094 -- Already more than 60 U.S. House Members have signed onto such bills introduced this year by Congressman John Tanner and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren.

• The Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act of 2005 , H.R. 2642, 109th Congress -- Rep. John Tanner, 05/25/2005 CoSponsors (43)
• Redistricting Reform Act of 2005, H.R. 4094 -- Zoe Lofgrin, 10/20/2005 Cosponsors (25)
• Thinking About Proportional Representation by Ian Welsh {Canada}
  
• Court to hear Texas redistricting cases
  

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• The Winner-Take-All Endgame (TomPaine)
• Courses on Sale
• Englebert interview (I. Cringely)
  
• GreaseMonkey firefix script plugin (Wired plugin set) (Tweaking)
  
• The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005
• Torture for Dummies
  
• Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression


1. Dummy up. If it's not reported, if it's not news
2. Wax indignant. "how dare you?"
   
3. Characterize the charges as "rumors"
   
4. Knock down straw men.
   
5. Call the skeptics names like "conspiracy theorist," ...
   
6. Impugn motives.
   
7. Invoke authority.
   
8. Dismiss the charges as "old news."
   
9. Come half-clean.
   
10. Characterize as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable.
    
11. Reason backward.
    
12. Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely.
    
13. Change the subject.
    
14. Scantly report incriminating facts, and then make nothing of them.
15. Baldly and brazenly lie.
    
16. Expanding further on numbers 4 and 5.
    
17. Flood the Internet with agents.
    
    
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