First Look at Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin and Ed Harris as John McCain in “Game Change” Trailer [Video]

We first heard about Julianne Moore portraying Sarah Palin in the HBO film Game Change nearly a year ago. Sarah Palin could only muster up sarcasm when talking about the movie, which isn’t surprising considering that it is an adaptation of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s 2008 presidential election tell-all book that portrays Palin in a terrible and uninformed light.

A year later, and the film’s cast has only grown more impressive. Ed Harris plays an exhausted John McCain whose own campaign ran away without him once Sarah Palin was introduced to the American public, and Woody Harrelson plays adviser Steve Schmidt who tried to cover up Palin’s inexperience, limited scope of foreign policy knowledge, and incompetence by banking on her charisma to carry her through the campaign.

Check out the following trailer for Game Change; the film premieres on March 10th at 9 p.m. on HBO.

Stop Internet Censorship!

Today, some of your favorite websites will not be displaying or functioning fully. They will not be at our collective disposal with just a click of a button, and their content will not be there, ready to entertain us, or inform us, or make us better citizens of the world. Instead, these websites will be dark or possess very little other than a message of protest against proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

As it stands today, the U.S. has laws in place to fight online piracy and copyright infringement. You see this in action every time you go to watch a YouTube video and instead of the video, you see a notice that it has been taken down due to some …

The Micro Community of Occupy Wall Street [Video]

The Occupy Wall Street movement is well into its second month. Thousands of people have joined together in New York City’s financial district to hold Wall Street and the corporate forces of the world accountable for their corrupt business practices and profiting from mass injustice made possible by severe income inequality.

Occupy Wall Street exemplifies what a real grassroots movement is and how it can thrive within our society that relies heavily on technology and social media. It is because of this that I have been able to diligently follow Occupy Wall Street on Twitter as well as watch the events unfolding within and around the peaceful protests on the ground via Livestream on multiple channels. It has been amazing to me to witness the thousands who have gathered in …

Gabrielle Giffords Makes Emotional Return to Congress for Vote on Debt Ceiling Deal

On Monday night Congress voted in favor of emergency debt ceiling legislation just one day before the deadline for action. Congress had been struggling for months to come up with a plan that could be voted on and the reason for the plan coming in just under the deadline is primarily due to fiercely partisan politics at play. If no plan of action was put together for a vote before the deadline, the result would have been devastating for the already fragile U.S. economy.

While this vote was incredibly important, the highlight on the House floor was when Arizona Rep Gabrielle Giffords made a surprising and emotional return to the House floor. It has been just seven months since Giffords was shot in the head by a gunman in Tucson, Arizona and when she …

Former First Lady Betty Ford Dead at Age 93

Betty Ford, the former First Lady and wife of former President Gerald Ford, died Friday evening of natural causes. She was 93 years old and was surrounded by family at the time.

To say that Betty Ford was an inspiring woman would be an understatement. She was a strong, hardworking, dilligent woman. She was honest, upfront, and unapologetic in her views; qualities that led many to criticize her throughout her time as First Lady. Perhaps most amusing was when many conservatives were calling for her “resignation” in the mid-70s after she appeared on 60 Minutes for a candid interview where she spoke about the possibility that her children may have experimented with marijuana.

Betty Ford is most known today for co-founding the Betty Ford Center. In 1978, she was treated for alcohol and prescription painkiller abuse. …

President Obama’s First Twitter Town Hall Event Yields Over 70,000 Tweets

During the 2008 presidential election, one aspect of Barack Obama’s candidacy that make him appeal to the young voters of this country was his and his campaign’s smart use of trending technology. He was the candidate with a Twitter account, who had a blog, and who had made himself an almost-reachable presence to the people who favored him up until election day. Now that he is President of the United States, he has kept up this web service communication with his constituents, and yesterday he answered burning political questions via a Twitter Town Hall event.

The event was hosted by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and to kick off the event, President Obama tweeted from his @whitehouse account about reducing the deficit, a theme that played out heavily …