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Fifty-six years ago today in Memphis, Tennessee, civil rights pioneer Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was martyred by a malicious white bigot. The assassin, a misanthropic Caliban, fled, unable to stand up for his misguided convictions, unlike his...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 09:47 PM PDT
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Donald Trump joined conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday to discuss politics and his campaign. The more than 30-minute interview was 30 minutes more time than one should ever spend with the disgraced former president. Around nine minutes in,...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 11:47 AM PST
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Donald Trump has always been an incompetent generalist . However, recent weeks have shown that something is missing from The Donald’...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 11:07 AM PDT
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Maybe I missed it, but I haven’t seen Whitmer’s “Tough as Hell” speech on the site. Just hours after it was revealed there was a plot to kidnap and kill her, when she could have justifiably overflowed with rage, she calmly addressed the state and...
by Olds88
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on Thu Oct 08, 2020 at 06:47 PM PDT
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well oddly enough tonight everyone got to give a victory speech. I decided to watch the 5 front-runners, and tried to do it in unbiased manner. To see which I liked the best. Here’s my ratings from worse to best: Pete, Amy, Biden, Elizabeth, Bernie....
by mattinjersey
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on Mon Feb 03, 2020 at 10:07 PM PST
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Mad Libs are easy and fun. They’re a great way to teach children what adverbs are! They are also a simple way to have a laugh with friends and family of all ages, and we have the perfect subject ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Dec 25, 2019 at 11:00 AM PST
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I walked in Boston on March 24 in the March for Our Lives but didn’t stay to listen to the speeches on the Common. Later, I saw some of the CSPAN coverage of the March for Our Lives In Washington, DC...
by gmoke
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on Tue Apr 03, 2018 at 02:40 PM PDT
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That’s just the way it is, some things will never change. Bruce Hornsby and the Range
I’d like to say that it was great to see the Tangerine Tantrum Machine back on the road again, but I��
by Murfster35
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on Thu Nov 30, 2017 at 05:31 AM PST
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Friday saw the 24-hour news outlets bringing people on to say one thing: Holy crap, what is President Trump doing? Except Fox News which probably just brought someone on to talk about why women should wear lipstick to bed or something like that. On...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 01:14 PM PDT
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New Update:
Last week I published a diary under the title above because many people here on DK were bashing Obama for getting paid to speak at a conference hosted by a Wall Street firm. The firm in question is Cantor Fitzgerald, whose history of...
by MaureenMower
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on Wed May 03, 2017 at 04:31 PM PDT
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Former President Jimmy Carter "seldom accepts speaking fees," The Associated Press wrote in 2002, "and when he does he typically donates the proceeds to his charitable foundation." His fee for speaking about healthcare,...
by Tool
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on Sat Apr 29, 2017 at 07:46 AM PDT
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I’m not sure where you were in 1989 but it certainly wasn’t acceptable — at least to the liberals of the day or the progressives of the day that directly after leaving office former president Ronald Reagan decided to go to Japan for a nice little...
by Tool
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on Fri Apr 28, 2017 at 04:53 AM PDT
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The media’s claims of Donald Trump’s “pivoting” toward being more “presidential” in his congressional address got me thinking. What does “being presidential” sound like?
And this is what I came up with: John F. Kennedy’s Rice University Moon...
by grumpynerd
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on Fri Mar 03, 2017 at 06:31 PM PST
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Hilllary Clinton is taking some heat from a number of sources for her campaign emails that were released by Wikileaks. And some of them do show the process of “making sausage” is less than pristine. But, as I see it, the most amazing thing so far is...
by chichagof
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on Mon Oct 17, 2016 at 10:23 AM PDT
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in a New York Times column titled Burning Down the House.
I want to examine the column, and also reflect more broadly on where we are, because the column challenges us to do that.
The column is so tightly written that it is hard to excerpt within...
by teacherken
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on Fri Oct 14, 2016 at 03:53 AM PDT
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Dan Balz of the Washington Post is one of the most experienced and thoughtful writers on politics in the United States. He is curious enough that he was at the first Yearly Kos in Las Vegas early enough to be present for the training sessions before...
by teacherken
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on Thu Oct 13, 2016 at 04:04 PM PDT
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My brilliant friend Emily has a degree in Political Science and Government from the University of Chicago, as well as being a software engineer. To satisfy her own curiosity, she did a bit of analysis on both word frequency and average grade level of...
by Noah Jenda
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on Mon Oct 03, 2016 at 06:42 PM PDT
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This phrase is a favorite for substituting for real-life plans and policies. He has all sorts of very pressing concerns that need immediate attention, so he says. They usually involve immigrants and especially Muslims, yet he is insistent that he is...
by daddybunny
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on Wed Sep 07, 2016 at 09:21 PM PDT
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convention, Republican, Trump, RNC, Lincoln, King, Kennedy, cartoon, ...
by Roger Burke
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on Fri Jul 22, 2016 at 07:36 AM PDT
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Politics aside, I’ll tell ya’ the VP candidate I miss most: Spiro Agnew. Scoundrel, occasionally nasty (although certainly not by today’s high standards), and ultimately apparently not always on the up and up. But he could also be funny, in the...
by Roger Burke
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on Thu Jul 21, 2016 at 05:05 PM PDT
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