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Friday April 06, 2018 · 9:39 AM PDT

2018/04/06 · 09:39

A quick question for the board. Do folks use news aggregators e.g., Google News or Yahoo or something else? I use Google News but it pushes crap at me that I am not interested in and does not push information that I think is interesting. I wonder what favorites people have here?

Made my contributions this morning

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Friday September 07, 2012 · 6:05 AM PDT

2012/09/07 · 06:05

This is not a long message. Last cycle I gave early and often to Obama and other Democrats. This cycle I have resisted giving...the feeling I had of excitement and possibility got buried in the muck of a health care bill that didn't include a public option, in stimulus packages that were far short of necessary. Basically, I became discouraged by the reality of the policy process. But after everything at the convention and Obama's speech last night I am reminded that if I am silent other voices who advocate disastrous policies will go unchecked. So this morning I donated to both Obama and to Elizabeth Warren...a head and heart strategy.

McClatchy: Individual Mandates are a Republican Idea

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 5:50 AM PDT

2010/03/25 · 05:50

I didn't see the McLatchy article below here at KOS. As we watch the GOP work themselves into a lather about health insurance reform, in particular about the individual mandate requirement, it is useful to keep in mind that it was their idea! The McClatchy article provides some nice quotes.

More after the fold...

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 1:15 PM PDT

2008/10/16 · 13:15

I have seen several diaries (like this one on Indiana, this one on Charlotte and this one on Raliegh) celebrating the long lines at polling places as evidence of great interest and enthusiasm for voting. I have also seen these same diarists gushing over the fact that most of the voters waiting in those long lines seem to be Obama supporters. No doubt that is evidence of a great number of highly motivated Obama voters...BUT it is also cause for concern.

Here is the reason. Long lines discourage people from voting. The fact that there are long lines means that there are not enough voting machines, not enough personnel manning the voting stations etc. Now, perhaps the argument goes, that is a sign that turnout is higher than officials expected. Well, not in a place like Indiana or Ohio. In those places I worry that it is more a sign that GOP officials are successfully suppressing votes. Frankly, I think it is an outrage that people have to wait so long.

Over the fold to remember 2004

Cogito

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Sunday March 09, 2008 · 9:19 AM PDT

2008/03/09 · 09:19

Bill Clinton is right when he says about people like me

"the caucuses aren't good for her. They disproportionately favor upper-income voters who, who, don't really need a president but feel like they need a change."

He is right about voters like me in a way I hadn't fully realized about myself. We have health care, we have housing, food, our kids are not fighting in Iraq, we live in safe neighborhoods--even in this oncoming recession we are doing fine. We don't need a President to make things better for us. Bill is also right that we "feel like" we need a change. What is it that we "feel" like we need to change? Continue over the fold.

Cogito

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 8:40 AM PST

2008/03/08 · 08:40

George W Bush has raised narcissism to new levels with his administration. But we shouldn't forget the narcissism of the Clinton administration. Remember Rwanda:

Power was rightfully awarded the Pulitzer for her finely written and downright horrifying book "A Problem From Hell" which, in macabre detail, describes the calculated indifference of the Clinton administration when 800,000 Rwandans were being systematically butchered. The red phone rang and rang and rang again. I don't know where Hillary was then. But her husband and his entire experienced foreign policy team - from the brass in the Pentagon to the congenitally feckless Secretary of State Warren Christopher - just let it ring.

And as more than one researcher has amply documented the case, the bloody paralysis of the Clinton administration in the face of the Rwandan genocide owed not at all to a lack of information, but rather to a lack of will. A reviewer of Power's book for The New York Times, perhaps summed it up best, saying that the picture of Clinton that emerges from this reading is that of an "amoral narcissist."

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Friday March 07, 2008 · 5:00 PM PST

2008/03/07 · 17:00

I was a supporter of Wes Clark in 2004. Prior to the Iraq war Wes had the foresight to see that the war against Iraq was folly and, unlike Hillary, opposed the war. Many people here were on the Howard Dean bandwagon in 2004. I was too for awhile but migrated to Clark as someone who I thought might be more electable. While I was disappointed in Clark's failure to progress in the 2004 primary I was happy to see him support Kerry.

Fast forward to 2007-08. Seeing Clark support Hillary Clinton was at first understandable. There is an Arkansas connection as well as a connection to the first Clinton administration. While I liked Barak better, Hillary struck me as a reasonable alternative. But now, in keeping with Hillary's Rovian politics, Wes comes out as an a surrogate for Clinton with this attack on Obama: (continue after the flip)

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Friday February 15, 2008 · 6:01 AM PST

2008/02/15 · 06:01

Many are aware that Mark Penn is both Hillary Clinton's chief strategist and CEO of the PR firm Burson Marsteller. Penn's record and approach has been the subject of discussion on DailyKos including here, and here.

My focus in this diary is not so much on the litany of questionable characters Burson Marsteller has assisted. Every PR firm will be engaged in crisis management on behalf of clients. One shouldn't necessarily judge the attorney by the client. The focus of this diary is not on whom Penn's firm represents but, rather, how they do it in a way that is downright Rovian. The Countrywide Financial case is particularly revealing.

More after the fold.

Cogito

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Thursday September 07, 2006 · 8:22 AM PDT

2006/09/07 · 08:22

In an important diary Talibanistan: Much Worse than Reported tjfxh drew our attention to a report from Bill Roggio on the "truce" Pakistan has negotiated with the Taliban and Qaeda in Wazirastan. Basically, Musharaff with the okay from Bush, has created exactly the kind of terrorist home base Bush claims to worry about in Iraq. This is both a frightening development with respect to America's legitimate objective of stopping al Qaeda and a testament to the scope of Bush's failure. Roggio is no liberal by the way. He has written for the Weekly Standard and National Review Online.

Roggio continues his reporting today and after the fold I explain why events in Pakistan and Afghanistan deserve much more attention than we have been giving them.
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Re Amitai Etzioni's What Israel Means to Me

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Tuesday August 01, 2006 · 3:22 PM PDT

2006/08/01 · 15:22

In an impassioned piece by Amitai Etzioni posted on the TPM Cafe, Etzioni gives an emotionally powerful statement and says he is

stunned at the blind hatred Israel evokes, not only by the same dark forces that mean to do in all of Western civilization, the United States first, but by the numerous Europeans, and those on the American left, including some Jews who draw on their academic credentials (e.g., in linguistics) to write tirades about their own in such extreme terms it makes the paper blush' and their ancestors turn in their graves like cement mixers.

Etzioni's indictment of the left requires a reply and I would like to try and provide one after the fold. Read More

Alan Dershowitz strongly endorses John Bolton for UN

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Friday July 28, 2006 · 4:30 PM PDT

2006/07/28 · 16:30

Dershowitz endorses Bolton for the UN. Of course this is the same Dershowitz who...
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Time for realignment: Dems for tax cuts and federalism

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Sunday November 07, 2004 · 1:07 PM PST

2004/11/07 · 13:07

The time is coming when the two parties undergo a historic realignment. Prior to 2000 the defining feature of the political landscape had been either divided government or Democratic control of the House. We now face a completely altered landscape for the forseeable future--single party control by the GOP. The party that controls the federal govt WANTS to spend money, they WANT to raise taxes, they want to control the states. The party out of power has the opposite concerns. They don't want to be taxed because the money would be better spent at the local level. They don't want the opposing party to spend money at the federal level because the ruling party inevitably creates patronage and strengthen their position. They want local control.

Now, look at these two maps to discover another reason for the upcoming realignment. Read More

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Made my contributions this morning

McClatchy: Individual Mandates are a Republican Idea

Long Lines at Voting Stations are BAD!

Bill Clinton is right: I don't need a President

No more amoral narcissists

Message to Wes Clark--you crossed the line

Mark Penn-Countrywide Financial-Clinton Campaign

The Big Story is in Pakistan/Afghanistan

Re Amitai Etzioni's What Israel Means to Me

Alan Dershowitz strongly endorses John Bolton for UN

Time for realignment: Dems for tax cuts and federalism