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is how this Saturday column by Charles Blow is titled.
As is always the case with Blow, very worth reading.
it is his dissection of the plan to attack Obama presented to billionaire Joe Ricketts, ...
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Weeks ago I diaried We're Going to Do It! Rate Regulation is Going on the Ballot , although I wasn't sure they'd quite hit their target of 800,000 signatures.
Now, via email I received today from ...
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This is my latest piece on DeSmogBlog :
Republicans on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee have decided that the military’s push for clean, renewable energy has gone far enough, and have ...
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Welcome to the weekend, and welcome to some of my favorite Beatles songs.
I'm feeling lovelorn and so I thought I'd put up a diary where people can stop in, chat, share stories of lost love, or ...
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So I got polled by PPP for the first time, in PA, and most of the questions were fairly straight forward. But then the last two questions were slightly bizarre. The second to last on was my ...
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Kyrsten Sinema is an Arizona State Senator, former State Representative, and candidate for Arizona's new Ninth Congressional District. This is a conventional biography, but Sinema is anything but ...
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A story came out this week that flew so low under the radar that barely anybody noticed it. It turns out that April was the first month since September 2008 in which the federal government took in ...
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In an editorial published in yesterday's Wall Street Journal by a motley group of spooks, including:
Meir Dagan , the former head of Mossad;
James Woolsey , former Director of the CIA;
Mark ...
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This weekend is the OFA National Day of Action! Volunteers will be working this weekend to get people registered to vote. I love this video, I think it's going to help generate enthusiasm!
What ...
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Mitt Romney was the establishment GOP candidate this year, so he won the nomination, like every establishment GOP presidential candidate in memory.
But back in 2008, he was running against John ...
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RIP Donna Summer...
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I have to say, I made myself cringe with the title for this diary. In fact, let me just answer that question now: No. Many people, however, believe Alexander the Great was "gay." He frequently ...
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The good news as reported by Politico
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon will be called to testify before the Senate Banking Committee in the coming weeks, the panel’s chairman announced Thursday —
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OK. Here we are. Marriage Equality and all other things are out there for all to see. Horrible stuff has been said in the name of religion, by fundamentalists of all stripes.
Here's my challenge: ...
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Happy Friday again, beer fans!
At the last meeting of the homebrew club we got a presentation from one of the newest small breweries in the region. The CEO and the head brewer poured beer for us ...
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Growing up, I was surrounded by old family stories told to me by relatives around the dining table about those who had passed on. I learned about Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez’s tenacity in doing ...
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Learn about Tom Barrett ... the Democratic Job-promoter of Wisconsin.
A Real Record of Creating Jobs for Wisconsinites
Tom Barrett for Governor (D- WI )
While Scott Walker pursued his ...
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Arizona Goes Birther Crazy: Secretary Of State Ken Bennett Says It's 'Possible' Obama Won't Be On Ballot! Secretary of State Ken Bennett, the man in charge of running Arizona's elections, has gone ...
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This has been going on for a couple of days, but I haven't seen it here. If I missed it, I apologize.
The Arizona Secretary of State, Ken Bennett, is saying he will keep President Obama's name off ...
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STRICT CONSTRUCTIONIST JUDGES , n.p. Judges who overturn two centuries of precedent to create purely commercial fictitious “persons” with unlimited rights and finances in political campaigns, ...
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ACTIVIST JUDGES , n.p. Judges who occasionally rule in favor of civil liberties, women’s rights, the poor over the rich, employees over employers, customers over businesses, or workers over a ...
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Police at 3:00 pm Friday afternoon blocking Michigan Ave bridge in downtown chiocago at the height of rush hour.
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Welcome to the DFH Freaky Friday weekly music series
Because Team DFH operates more or less like a herd of cats, we’re here at roughly 9PM Eastern, every week. So take off your shoes, plop down ...
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Last week we discussed On the Threshold of a Dream , and this week the next album by The Moody Blues , To our Children's Children's Children .
The band were the same lineup as from their second ...
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More than 3,000 nurses and activists gathered at Daley Plaza in Chicago Friday to rock out with musician Tom Morello and call for a tax on financial speculation — a Robin Hood tax. This small ...
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I am a progressive and a member of the California Teachers Association. I am also an advocate for charter schools.
Charter Schools have a nasty reputation here at Daily Kos and among many on the ...
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Welcome to the gallery. Tonight we are showing original works by kjoftherock. Below the orange squiggle, kj will explain her work -- and she'll be on hand to answer questions. The works are for ...
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Senators McCain and Whitehouse are petitioning the Supreme Court to revisit the decision! You know how important this is!
Add your name to the petition here:
http://unitedrepublic.org/mccain-...
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Hey All -
Brutal week for me. Work related, very boring. Just life. So sorry this diary is coming up a tad late!
I brought the Pizza!
Who brought something to drink? :)
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Yesterday, I liked a photo from President Obama’s instagram. Just like 6,000 others did. Innocent enough, right? Apparently not.
As the night went on, I somehow found myself in a kinda-sorta ...
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I don`t know what to make out of this letter I got today from Scott Walker. Well, actually it is self explanatory except that he must have been pretty confused, with all the money he is counting he ...
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The White House has a project called Champions for Change , explained here by Valerie Jarrett:
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Sorry for the hit and run right before Shabbat, but the irony of this cannot be missed (h/t TPM Livewire) . Click on the page where the House Speaker offers his proposed solutions and all you get ...
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Five years ago, Overstock filed a naked-shorting case in California against a bunch of Wall Street firms. The gist of the accusation was that they had conspired with clients to manipulate short ...
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LBJ's signature on the Voting Rights Act
A panel of judges on the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a key enforcement provision of the Voting Rights Act, setting up for a Supreme Court ...
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Jack Conkling is a social studies teacher at Prairie Middle School, as well as an assistant freshman women's basketball coach at Buhler High School, in Hutchinson, Kansas. He's also an evangelical ...
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Going to keep this diary (my first) brief.
In addition to the ongoing Robocalls scandal which has been simmering on the back burner for a while now, A Conservative MP has been unseated by a court ...
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Okay, it's folk psychology, not hard science -- "psychopath" is a pretty vague diagnosis. It generally refers to a person who lacks empathy and displays cruelty to others. Such people often behave ...
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Earlier today, Christian talk show host Janet Mefferd had as her guest Washington Times columnist Jeffrey Kuhner. In a moment that shows--to put it mildly--a staggering lack of proportion, Kuhner ...
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dallasdunlap wrote in a comment
I feel that I have to eat meat once in a while, but I'm focusing on eating a lot less of it.
The problem is, there are no vegetarian restaurants. All fast food ...
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You can tell a lot about a person by the jokes that they make, particularly the context in which they make them.
There’s an old joke about a married couple that’s asked about their hobbies and ...
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Is the election of 2012 as simple as Obama the Human Capitalist vs Romney the Financial Capitalist? I caught a bit of the Martin Bashir show on MSNBC earlier this week. One of his guests was ...
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This is intended to be the beginning of a new series for the group: Literary LGBT History. We'll analyze books and writers in a discovery/recovery effort. This first diary presents the work of the (...
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Hi folks,
I post as "Peace Voyager", here on our Western Sonoma County, California online community bulletin board, WaCCoBB.net
This is a few comments into the thread: I Am Not Disappointed in ...
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We always knew this but now we know why.
The below article is the BEST explanation I have come upon so far that explains why the GOP/TP seems to exhibit such hate toward everything and everybody ...
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Which is better for an economy: millions of future jobs and trillions of future dollars, or a few people making a quick buck today by selling out their country? For decades America's 1%-backed ...
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I've been a member of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) since graduating high school. I was hired by a company who had signed an agreement with District Council 35 ...
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Across America, a campaign is launching. It is a struggle for that most precious right of American democracy: the right to vote. While the vote does not guarantee anything, without it even the ...
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Well folks, the racist everyone loves to hate--Pat Buchanan--has a new column up.
"Has the Bell Begun to Toll for the GOP?"
It's full of choice bits. In it, Uncle Pat still haz a sad over being ...
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Like many people, I don't believe in coincidence. I believe things happen for a reason, even if, at the time, the idea that there could be any reason for something happening is unimaginable, that ...
by Cinnamon
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Chicago police broke into a home with an unsigned warrant, repeatedly calling an activist "commie faggot" and arrested 9 activists, including Kossack TarheelDem, ahead of this weekend's protest of ...
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I was planning on dropping this announcement into the nearest passing open thread, but I realized that it has an import beyond the news it imparts.
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The Klamath Riverkeeper (KRK) Thursday filed a federal lawsuit over the harm caused to endangered coho salmon by Dwinnell Dam and a series of water diversions operated by Montague Water Conservation ...
by Dan Bacher
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I've been kicking around an idea this week and wanted to run it by this esteemed community before continuing. I want to know if there is a need for my idea to help our growing population of women ...
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I gave a phone interview yesterday to a local paper as [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/02/1088316/-I-am-Running-for-California-State-Senate part of my campaign for California State Senate] -- ...
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As a Chicagoan, I'm embarrassed by the constant "Fear" tactics which are being put for NATO. Virtually all the coverage is negative. Stories never get far enough past the played-up violence ...
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Straight up confession, here. I am a 43 year old man, and I still read comic books.
Of course, that’s not too big of a confession these days. Take a look at the box office receipts and you will ...
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William O. Diederich of Madison, Wisconsin was arrested today by federal agents for alleged threats to blow up the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin State Journal ...
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A day after being excoriated by Federal Judge Shira A. Scheindlin for NYPD's “facially unlawful stops” and “deeply troubling apathy towards New Yorkers’ most fundamental constitutional rights�
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As a result of a grassroots campaign spearheaded by Greenpeace, the Cupertino-based tech giant, Apple, has agreed to reduce its dependence on dirty and dangerous energy sources.
Just hours after ...
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We all know what I’m talking about – the nosy neighbor who feels compelled to report every single thing she (it’s usually a woman) finds offensive to the condo association, the home owner’s ...
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PCCC-endorsed candidates are turning up the heat on Wall Street! Last night, Elizabeth Warren went on The Ed Show to call for Wall Street reform to be put back on the agenda -- including a new Glass-...
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A funny thing happened in Malawi. And it happened more by happenstance than by any plan.
You see a woman was elected Vice President of Malawi (putting them ahead of America where only men have been ...
by mole333
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The Mojo Friday Postgame is a statistical analysis of the Mojo Friday diary that is posted every Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. ET. For further info please check out Jez's 'Official' "Mojo Friday ...
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That's right, [Enormous Moustache http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/17/1092499/-Open-thread-Thomas-Friedman-is-an-enormous-mustache-?showAll=yes] a/k/a Captain Obvious a/k/a "Suck. On. This" a/k/...
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Commentary: African American Scientists and Inventors by Black Kos Editor, Sephius1
Ernest Everett Just (August 14, 1883 – October 27, 1941) was a pioneering African American biologist, academic ...
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There is nothing quite like seeing a sore loser in action, especially when this sore loser is threatening to put the citizens and the future of Kansas at risk.
Today the Kansas Senate voted to keep ...
by Colin Curtis
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Mitt Romney says he wants to "take a look at tax returns" from potential running mates ... but he doesn't want you to look at his.
The Hill's Alexander ...
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Not content with voter suppression and stirring up racial animosity , it seems Republicans are going full ...
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November 6th, 2012. It is a very long way away ( It is 172 days, 6 hours, 50 minutes, 35 seconds until Tuesday, November 6, 2012 (Washington DC time) as I write this.
This is the first (and, ...
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By Chris Lilienthal, Third and State More than a year ago, the administration of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett decided to end the state's adultBasic program, which provided affordable health ...
by ThirdandState
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The March 2010 video from a camera at a nearby storage center shows Houston Police officers chasing burglary suspect Chad Holley. After the 15-year-old trips over a police car that intercepts him, ...
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A lot of folks have suffered as they have occupied various sites. I highly recommend Occupying Aspen this July. It's a beutiful time to be in the Rockies. There is lots of legal National Forest ...
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Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) - a high-tech rocket and spaceship company started by Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk - is just hours from a historic launch that will shape ...
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