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"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is Enemy Action." -- Auric Goldfinger James Bond's wealthy nemesis may have had an obsession with gold, ...
Mark Sumner 09/21/2008
06:03 AM
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Ok, I know many users already know how to format their diaries and add images etc., but for every one else this is a guide to making your diary look like the pros. First thing to remember is ...
fiver 03/16/2011
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droogie6655321 06/10/2008
09:33 AM
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(Now also posted at a non-partisan URL w/ a useful navigation bar) Whether convincing undecideds or debating a McCain ...
ShadowSD 09/16/2008
06:06 AM
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UPDATE: You have my full permission to reprint, distribute, or in any way copy and reuse this post in its entirety. In fact, I strongly encourage you to do so. I've been putting off sharing this ...
James Hepburn 01/31/2013
11:20 AM
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The next President is going to have some MAJOR challenges. I refuse to buy into the hype, on either side, but especially on that of Obama. However the "empty rhetoric" v. "history of accomplishments"
Grassroots Mom 02/20/2008
05:13 PM
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(I had been planning to try to compile exactly this sort of list on Saturday. Nonpartisan beat me to it and did a great job. Please note all the caveats about Creative Commons licensing and ...
Nonpartisan 01/20/2007
01:27 AM
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Barack Obama 09/30/2005
07:38 AM
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History may be written by the winners, but that doesn't stop the losers from wasting a lot of ink in the attempt. This time, it's the GOP revanchists who are busy trying to come up with a reason -- ...
Mark Sumner 11/16/2008
07:00 AM
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While I'm a liberal democrat, I have a large conservative family. A recent e-mail discussion with a family member left me pulling out my hair in frustration because of her two questions, "tell me ...
Dems2006 09/18/2009
12:05 AM
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DemocraticLuntz 02/11/2008
10:00 PM
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AlphaGeek 09/09/2005
02:02 PM
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I read a lot of fear in the comments about DK4. For those who haven't tried it out yet, or are thinking of taking a powder... read on, and think again . Please. Many pictures to follow.
Angela Marx 02/05/2011
01:32 PM
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I've been reading the diaries from people looking for work, and thought this might be of some use. Over a decade ago, when my husband lost his job, he got sent to one of the "employment coaching" ...
Teddifish 12/05/2008
07:15 PM
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Berkeley, CA. February 24, 2009. As President Obama prepares to address a joint session of Congress, what can we expect to hear? The pundits will stress the nuts-and-bolts policy issues:
George Lakoff 02/24/2009
12:01 AM
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Let us speak of rights and reason. Of rights we have to begin from the final humiliation against a free ...
Stirling Newberry 09/21/2008
09:45 AM
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This diary is simple. If you have credit cards or a bank card, this will hopefully help you save some money. It’s not earth shattering. It won’t solve all your problems. But for most ...
Lava20 06/25/2008
04:35 PM
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AlphaGeek 09/20/2005
06:50 AM
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A number of people have expressed interest in how I go about illustrating my diaries. It’s really not that difficult, and with a little determination, anyone can learn how to do it.
One Pissed Off Liberal 01/15/2007
11:25 AM
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About a month ago I wrote that America is not now, and has never been, a conservative country .
thereisnospoon 11/06/2008
10:36 AM
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Unitary Moonbat 04/09/2006
07:11 PM
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In the earliest decades of this nation -- before this nation was even a nation -- four waves of settlers arrived from Britain. The first three waves landed in New England, the Southern Colonies and ...
Geenius at Wrok 09/21/2009
04:03 AM
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Hi. I'm Steven D, and I post to the front page at Booman Tribune, as well being a frequent diarist at DKos. Markos, as the owner of this site ...
Steven D 02/09/2007
10:58 AM
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In a fantastic diary of strategies for homeschooling on a budget ,
radical simplicity 03/10/2012
05:12 PM
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dmsilev 09/13/2006
06:16 AM
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I'm in the really weird position of having job openings at my non-profit for which we are recruiting and hiring. We are deluged with resumes and I thought it might be helpful to share a few ...
cityvitalsigns 04/15/2009
04:03 PM
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Yesterday: a flood of Palin diaries. And yesterday evening was devoted to the gummy, edgeless verbal shufflings of McCain. That's fine. But meanwhile, something else happened. There's a new four-...
Jsn 09/05/2008
01:17 PM
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Welcome , fellow Kossacks. First time reader or return visitor to the Visual Guide to DK4? Either way, bienvenidos a todos gentes! You ...
Angela Marx 02/09/2011
03:39 PM
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Well, it happened again. Some other well-meaning yokel called into a radio talk show in time for me to hear him get berated by the host when he couldn't name a single one of Barack Obama's ...
droogie6655321 07/07/2008
02:02 PM
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Hello, I briefly visited the “We are the 53%” website, ...
Max Udargo 10/12/2011
09:01 AM
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What we covered in Visual step-by-step guide to DK4 - PART I : The Front Page : DK3 vs ...
Angela Marx 02/06/2011
12:37 PM
76 41 184
Hail and well met, fellow Kossacks. So, you've decided to come back (or just drop in for the first time) for another round of the Visual Guide to DK4 ? Good on ya ! You ...
Angela Marx 02/07/2011
12:53 PM
47 22 183
Losing a job can be really scary. It brings up all kinds of primal fears like, "will I be homeless, will my spouse divorce me, will I not be able to feed my kids"...truly scary stuff. I got hammered ...
Dewstino 01/19/2012
11:28 AM
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Hola, fellow Kossacks. First time reader or return visitor to the Visual Guide to DK4? Either way, howdy-do! You ...
Angela Marx 02/08/2011
03:10 PM
52 26 180
I have a very, very conservative brother. (Actually--full disclosure--I have two. And a father. I don't know what is wrong with the men in my family.) :-) The brother in question owns his own ...
sunspark says 05/11/2010
02:18 PM
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Rumsfeld and Top GOP Figures Profited from Privatization of VA Hospital, CIA Contractors A large global hedge fund, Cerberus Capital Management (dba, Cerberus-Gabriel), is at the center of ...
leveymg 03/10/2007
03:58 AM
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MikMouse 03/24/2006
03:46 AM
97 383 178
Reposted on the anniversary of the assassination of Rev. King. MB This will be a very short diary. It will not contain any links or any scholarly references. It is about a very ...
HamdenRice 08/29/2011
08:24 AM
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Before I explain the generic insult, let me first make something perfectly clear: I am your enemy. That you don't know this is understandable: after all, people like me prefer it that way. ...
thereisnospoon 12/16/2009
04:28 PM
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The other day my oldest brother, Ron (I have four), emailed me the following request: The following is an argument by our brother, Steve, for not increasing taxes on the rich. Can you ...
James Kroeger 10/21/2010
11:45 PM
382 761 174
I've seen this so many times I've lost count: TV Person #1 makes the point that Sarah Palin is not ready to lead on Day Two. To which TV Person #2 responds "she has as much experience as Obama". I'...
SantaFeMarie 09/01/2008
10:06 PM
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Mr Populist 09/09/2006
09:47 AM
524 669 173
Warning: This post is complicated, and will make little sense without a little prior reading. If you are unfamiliar with the detailed causes and effects of the financial crisis, especially ...
thereisnospoon 03/31/2009
11:09 AM
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The singular feature of the great crash of 1929 was that the worst continued to worsen. What looked one day like the end proved on the next day to have been only the beginning. Nothing ...
billmon 09/22/2008
10:48 PM
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HeyThereItsEric 07/24/2006
09:36 PM
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AlphaGeek 09/16/2005
12:47 PM
230 155 161
Over the weekend, Senator McCain said, "this election is about trust and trusting people's word and, unfortunately, apparently on several items, Senator Obama's word cannot be trusted."
StuHunter 07/02/2008
09:07 PM
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As a [now formerly] lifelong Republican, a [Goldwater] Conservative, and a former GOP activist, operative and professional campaign manager, now ardently supporting Sen. Barack Obama, I feel that I ...
Press to Digitate 05/18/2008
08:12 AM
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I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies, you ...
MinistryOfTruth 01/09/2012
01:57 PM
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(Written by an American expat living the European Union) This purpose of this diary is not to recruit people to move to ...
Democrats Ramshield 11/08/2010
02:47 AM
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Nobody can deny the fact that Christianity has played a huge role in our history. From the first Thanksgiving to the ideas of Jesus Christ that are embroidered in our culture today, Christianity and ...
Tolerant Libertarian 03/17/2014
10:52 PM
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We are pleased and honored to announce that Markos is our special guest who will commence our three day Kos Katalogue blogathon tomorrow morning. Kos Katalogue consists of businesses run by ...
Sara R 07/09/2013
04:30 PM
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Hunter 09/29/2005
03:18 PM
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Promoted from diaries by Susan Gardner . Reince Priebus (and apparently many others ) ...
David Akadjian 08/07/2013
05:02 AM
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At first it seemed little more than a bizarre rant, only slightly worse than those to which we've grown accustomed, given the source. To wit, Rush Limbaugh, who on September 11 condemned President ...
tim wise 09/15/2009
05:06 AM
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Little known fact: I have a degree in economics. I went to one of the top three economics schools in the country, and graduated with honors. Caveat: The area I studied was WAY academic. Rather ...
RenaRF 09/29/2008
12:59 PM
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Today's NY Times has an opinion piece by Brent Staples: Barack Obama, John McCain and the Language of Race (...
Denise Oliver Velez 09/24/2008
03:27 AM
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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. \- John 8:32 There is no doubt that the ...
occams hatchet 01/30/2007
02:36 PM
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ek hornbeck 07/22/2006
06:05 PM
187 94 148
As a public service to those who find themselves inextricably cornered by aggressively ill-informed Republicans at work, on the train or at family gatherings, presented here are ten indisputably ...
Richard Riis 09/04/2012
12:32 PM
212 862 147
Suppose I want to include the following image in a diary on Kos?
Julie Waters 02/16/2011
04:42 AM
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I came across this speech tonight and it just really got me going. It picked me back up and put some fight back into me. This is AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka talking about racism and voting for Obama. It'
platypus 10/01/2008
07:29 PM
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thereisnospoon 05/09/2006
05:52 PM
518 513 146
UPDATE : From Keith Olbermann himself, in the comments : Nobody Likes Kudos Better Than I Do ...
thereisnospoon 01/16/2009
06:27 PM
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ek hornbeck 11/17/2006
07:40 PM
210 112 144
Timroff 11/06/2006
05:51 AM
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(New In This Installment: Rebuttal Points To The Five Most Common Opposition Arguments At Town Hall Meetings , A More Detailed Review of The CT-02 Town Hall, And A Retraction)
ShadowSD 08/10/2009
08:59 AM
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Wish I could write something in anger and disgust EVERY morning at 2AM then wake up at 7 and have my wife tell me I am on the rec list. Glad you all find this useful. I am just sick and tired of ...
NearlySomebody 07/23/2010
11:53 PM
561 873 142
*Stochastic terrorism* is the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are _statistically predictable but individually unpredictable._ ...
G2geek 01/10/2011
05:37 PM
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I know the photo of McCain hugging Bush is popular around here, but this may be the most powerful image for the general election:
Not Brit 05/12/2008
09:36 PM
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I am aware that there is already a diary dealing with the mystery poster on the Rec list. I thought the current diary only began to scratched the surface, so I wanted to provide this as an archive ...
free speech zone 08/01/2007
07:49 AM
490 759 140
We all know that during the Bush regime years, American citizens never saw the coffins of our fallen heroes coming back from Iraq. Americans are also shielded from the brutal ugliness of our ...
nyceve 01/27/2009
06:19 AM
546 1024 139
Food is expensive, but eating continues to be necessary! Let's talk about cheap, but good and healthy food. I have a few ideas...what are yours?
MadLibrarian 12/05/2008
12:03 PM
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First of all, I want to thank everybody involved in getting my "Action Alert" diary yesterday rescued from obscurity to land on the Rec list 3 1/2 hours after posting. In the last 24 ...
New Deal democrat 09/21/2008
09:16 AM
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Democrats of all stripes have been so focused on details of policy that they have surrendered public political discourse to conservatives, and with it the key to the nation’s future.
George Lakoff 12/10/2010
02:57 AM
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As I wrote in my previous diary, I attended Camp Obama and learned how to become a community organizer for Barack Obama ...
kid oakland 06/30/2008
08:35 PM
119 368 137
What if you could build an attractive, energy-efficient home for as little as $10/sqft? Think it's impossible? Think again. Find out how below the fold.
ThatPoshGirl 04/03/2008
11:27 PM
404 381 137
Problem : Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and keeps sending you emails about "Obama spending" and "Obama deficits" and how the "Stimulus"
davej 08/28/2011
01:00 PM
244 669 136
(From the diaries. An incredible and valuable resource. Susan) So much information about the Bush administration's torture policies and rationales has surfaced in recent days that, contrary ...
DanK Is Back 04/23/2009
09:38 PM
217 192 136
belinda ridgewood 03/04/2011
12:08 PM
339 177 134
According to Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D) (PA-11), in mid-September of 2008, the United States of America came just three hours away from the collapse of the entire economy. In a span of 2 hours, $550 ...
Magnifico 02/09/2009
08:58 PM
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I've been fascinated by the evolution of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges (Not to be mistaken ...
TocqueDeville 10/20/2008
10:53 PM
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AlphaGeek 09/12/2005
03:55 PM
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And What To Replace Them With We talk about the "Death Tax" and not "Estate Tax." Two little words "Death Panels" were capable of nearly derailing the best thing that's happened to health insurance ...
jillwklausen 03/18/2012
03:03 PM
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Good morning, folks. This diary is the first one posted by ePluribus Media under this specific account name since June of 2008, so we're going to provide both a re-introduction to our ...
ePluribus Media 02/26/2011
08:11 AM
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Deleted my content and moved to Caucus99Percent.com

Lisa Lockwood 06/12/2013
05:17 PM
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Prominent white conservatives are angry about racism. Forget all that talk about a post-racial society. They know better than to believe in such a thing, and they’re hopping mad.
tim wise 07/12/2010
09:25 AM
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Cross Posted On Open Left Searching for John McCain is a ...
Chris Bowers 05/29/2008
11:04 AM
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Update 2/8/2016: New Diarists tutorial for formatting drafts, adding tags, publishing options, and editing covers most of the basics: How to add links, blockquotes, story breaks, horizontal lines How to tag and publish your story How to...
nomandates 01/08/2013
04:00 PM
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(Bumped. This terrific essay got buried this morning by the news of Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama. It deserves another round of readers. Susan) The Mount Washington Hotel is a ...
Mark Sumner 10/19/2008
10:45 PM
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In these hard times, job applicants need all the help they can get. Whether you’re newly unemployed or someone looking to change jobs, your resume could be the factor that gets your foot in the ...
Diana in NoVa 06/26/2011
08:11 PM
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I've been waiting for a good time to bring this story to Daily Kos and, since it's CNBC day (or week hopefully), I figured now would be a good time. By now, everyone should have heard about the ...
TocqueDeville 03/05/2009
04:56 PM
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I'd like to share a must-watch video with you. You will not regret the the 13 minutes it takes to watch this video. ...
kid oakland 06/07/2008
08:54 PM
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(From the diaries -- kos) I posted a shorter version of this list yesterday and was asked to expand and repost it. What do we know about Sarah Palin? She's a popular ...
BoBo2020 08/30/2008
06:28 PM
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So what if I told you that the powers of financial capitalism (bankers etc.), had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands, able to ...
TocqueDeville 07/27/2008
04:01 AM
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It has really been bothering me - the charges that Obama is all talk and no action. Those of us who support him and have reviewed his record know there is no basis to this charge, but just to make ...
Helenann 02/21/2008
02:19 PM
196 388 125
So I'm working this morning, like I do everyday, trying to come up with ways to promote my film , when I get this email from a guy who used to call my radio show over in Jackonville. His name is Rod,
Conceptual Guerilla 04/12/2012
12:05 PM
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There is a funny scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which Indy and his father are tied to chairs inside a very large stone fireplace, while the rest of the room is on fire. ...
LithiumCola 08/30/2008
08:00 AM
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On occasion, depending on the kind of diaries or comments you write, you may need to use a symbol that's not on your keyboard. Perhaps you want to give a temperature, show an amount in a foreign ...
belinda ridgewood 08/09/2012
04:00 PM
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(Note, original is here .) Many people don't understand our country's problem of concentration of ...
davej 02/14/2011
09:05 AM
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