Posting History for Phoenix Woman
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| Bernie Fans chant "English Only!" to Keep Dolores Huerta from Translating Hillary's Victory Speech In an example of the bigotry and lack of discipline of Sanders supporters, we have the spectacle of seeing Bernie supporters chanting "English Only!" at the Harrah's caucus site to stop civil ... |
Phoenix Woman | 02/20/2016 | 1283 | 136 | - | - |
| Vermont's Black Leaders: We Were 'Invisible' to Bernie Sanders From www.thedailybeast.com/... :
Back in 2006, the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity, a Brattleboro area civil rights organization hosted a Candidate Night. The race for the open ... |
Phoenix Woman | 02/17/2016 | 751 | 152 | - | - |
| "I'm Not Rappaport!" starring Bernie Sanders, Bruce Rappaport, Richard Schmitt, Bruce Stark, et al First there was a Bernie photo :
At a televised Democratic candidate forum Friday, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow showed Bernie Sanders a black-and-white photo of a man with his face turned away from ... |
Phoenix Woman | 02/15/2016 | 58 | 11 | - | - |
| Hillary raising money for Flint
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I got an email from Hillary Clinton this morning with the following title:
Phoenix, will you help the ... |
Phoenix Woman | 02/14/2016 | 22 | 92 | - | - |
| Eric Boehlert Takes Down A Bogus Poll Much excitement has been generated today by the silliest poll-like object I’ve seen that’s not by Overtime Strategies. I speak of course of the bogosity by the conservative Washington Free ... |
Phoenix Woman | 02/12/2016 | 52 | 47 | - | - |
| Some Things To Note From 538's Coverage Last Night Some things to note from last night:
1. Contrary to what one might think from seeing the Wrecked List, which on good days looks like end-stage FDL and on bad days like a cross between Reddit ... |
Phoenix Woman | 02/10/2016 | 52 | 43 | - | - |
| Nevada pollster caught "making sh*t up" A Nevada poll being heavily touted on this site today apparently shows, among other things, Hillary Clinton losing ground to Bernie Sanders.
Too bad the suspiciously-new company behind it has alr |
Phoenix Woman | 01/24/2016 | 195 | 147 | - | - |
| Concord (NH) Monitor endorses Hillary Clinton for President The news came while many of us were sleeping (or otherwise occupied):
Only one Democratic candidate for president is truly qualified to hold the job: Hillary Clinton.
No contender’s resum |
Phoenix Woman | 01/24/2016 | 15 | 41 | - | - |
| Bernie and Peter and Joe and Lowell 1988 was an interesting year in American politics.
It was the year when George H.W. Bush, with his anti-assassination insurance J. Danforth Quayle at his side, defeated Michael Dukakis. It was |
Phoenix Woman | 01/23/2016 | 56 | 32 | - | - |
| You'd Think Site Traffic Would Go UP As The Primaries Approach, Part 2: The Quantcast Data Last month I wrote a diary where I noticed a disturbing trend for a political blog like this one:
Per the web traffic measurer Alexa, January 2015 for Daily Kos began with traffic (and thus it |
Phoenix Woman | 01/20/2016 | 78 | 22 | - | - |
| Hillary News & Views 1.18: MLK Jr. Day Edition For more coverage of Hillary Clinton at Daily Kos, visit the Hillary Writers Circle .
Good morning, everyone! Phoenix Woman here, substituting for Lysis.
On the day when he is officially ... |
Phoenix Woman | 01/18/2016 | 293 | 113 | - | - |
| Hillary: It's Already Here! As was shown in the debates last night, as well as on her website, Hillary Clinton puts forth a very good argument for continuing President Obama’s institution of the Affordable Care Act and its inaug |
Phoenix Woman | 01/18/2016 | 120 | 64 | - | - |
| Murdoch's WSJ Gives Bernie Hot Wet Strange Editorial Kiss The oldest rule in electoral politics has always been this one: When faced with more than one opponent, take out the stronger one first.
The second-oldest rule in electoral politics is: Whenever |
Phoenix Woman | 01/16/2016 | 39 | 20 | - | - |
| Bernie: 2013 bill is my healthcare plan. Bernie's advisors: Nope. Pssst! Bernie? Tad? Jeff? Hello?!
Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said as recently as Wednesday that the campaign does not yet have a date for when to release the Medicare-for-all plan. |
Phoenix Woman | 01/16/2016 | 422 | 98 | - | - |
| What Happens When Unarmed Black People Occupy A Wildlife Refuge? They Get Arrested. Promptly.
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Granted, this happened over a decade before Ruby Ridge and Waco made the FBI and BATF skittish about armed interventions, |
Phoenix Woman | 01/15/2016 | 48 | 112 | - | - |
| Two More Obama People And Their Support of Hillary While some people are waving around the words of David Axelrod, he whom last we saw had been banished from the Obama circle for talking to Peggy Noonan wannabee Maureen Dowd, a couple of people who ar |
Phoenix Woman | 01/13/2016 | 61 | 47 | - | - |
| Department of Redundancy Department: Paging Senator Sanders! Seems that our esteemed junior Senator from Vermont has a thing for proposing stuff that, well, is already being done. He’s done it twice this week so far, and the week’s not over yet.
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Phoenix Woman | 01/12/2016 | 57 | 24 | - | - |
| Is Roger Stone Feeding Oppo to His "Estranged" Buddy Trump? Just when Ted Cruz thought he was sitting pretty for the Iowa caucuses:
LOWELL, Mass. — Donald Trump said in an interview that rival Ted Cruz’s Canadian birthplace was a “very precarious” issu |
Phoenix Woman | 01/09/2016 | 27 | 11 | - | - |
| You'd Think Site Traffic Would Go UP As The Primaries Approach... Per the web traffic measurer Alexa, January 2015 for Daily Kos began with traffic (and thus its traffic ranking) still tailing off from its 2014 midterm highs. However, this turned around dramaticall |
Phoenix Woman | 12/28/2015 | 295 | 55 | - | - |
| Why Does Trump Own Most of the White Working Class (aka GOP Primary Voters)? I read this story from The Hill with great interest:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday made an appeal to supporters of Donald Trump to back his candidacy for president instead.
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Phoenix Woman | 12/27/2015 | 85 | 32 | - | - |
| Attention Facebook Fans: Ted Cruz Is In Your Data, Shaping His Messages While diarist after diarist these past few weeks wants you to take up Tad Devine’s and Jeff Weaver’s falsehood-based, self-serving and harmful war on the DNC, something’s been happening that you might |
Phoenix Woman | 12/26/2015 | 17 | 9 | - | - |
| How To Pick Your General Election Opponent: Hillary Uses Her Foes' Fan Base Against Them In a fine diary posted earlier today on Donald Trump’s schlongingly, misogynistically, and scatologically mixing it up with Hillary Clinton after she baited him with twenty pounds of catnip-covered ra |
Phoenix Woman | 12/22/2015 | 54 | 38 | - | - |
| Iowa Starting Line: Sanders Campaign Lied, Both by Omission and "Outright" Lying The Iowa caucuses are fast approaching. The second Democratic debate has just taken place.
Bernie Sanders, who had been leading in Iowa polling done earlier this year, is now well behind Hillary |
Phoenix Woman | 12/19/2015 | 104 | 35 | - | - |
| #Sandersgate: What We Know So Far (UPDATED: Two More Staffers Suspended) 1) Tad Devine lied when he said that the Clinton campaign accessed Sanders data in October. (See above screenshot.)
2) The four accounts of the Sanders campaign’s National Data Director Josh Uret |
Phoenix Woman | 12/18/2015 | 595 | 128 | - | - |
| Why Did Bernie Fire The Staffer? Everyone by now has heard about the Sanders campaign’s temporarily getting access to confidential voter data held for the Clinton campaign by the DNC.
The Sanders campaign’s apparent official pos |
Phoenix Woman | 12/18/2015 | 85 | 26 | - | - |
| Trumpster Fire! The Trumpster Fire is burning a hole in the GOP’s belly — and that’s a good thing.
Trump, by running an openly racist and bigoted campaign, has so alienated a large swatch of the electorate, even |
Phoenix Woman | 12/10/2015 | 13 | 18 | - | - |
| GOP Leaders' Biggest Fear: The "Crump" Catastrophe
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We’ll have Robert Reich set the table:
My friend, a fo |
Phoenix Woman | 12/06/2015 | 23 | 23 | - | - |
| Male San Bernardino shooter in touch with Syrian jihadist group praised by neocons Did you know that Syed Farook was allied with David Petraeus against ISIS?
Neither did I, until I saw this LA Times piece:
One of the assailants, Tashfeen Malik, pledged allegiance to an |
Phoenix Woman | 12/05/2015 | 15 | 11 | - | - |
| Bernie Sanders' 180 on Gun Research Bernie Sanders joined Hillary Clinton and virtually every other morally competent person in condemning the NRA-fueled gun epidemic that spurred the mass murder epidemic, the chief blot in an era of ot |
Phoenix Woman | 12/04/2015 | 97 | 32 | - | - |
| Hillary worked with Canadian and US officials to send Canadian Gitmo prisoner back to his home As Kerry Eleveld has written, citing State Department communications, Hillary Clinton spent much of the last few weeks of her time as Secretary of State pressing President Obama to make good on his pr |
Phoenix Woman | 12/01/2015 | 39 | 40 | - | - |
| Trumpy-Trump to GOP Leaders: Stop Pickin' on Me Or I'm Goin' Third Party! Remember that promise Trumpy-Trump made back in early September? The promise not to poutrage with a third-party run, but to take his lumps and back the winner of the GOP primary process even if it ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/23/2015 | 15 | 10 | - | - |
| About That BET Forum: Never Trust Anything Touted by the Daily Caller Some members of the anti-Democratic faction of a site intended to elect Democrats have been gleefully touting an appearance by Bernie at a recent BET-covered forum as evidence of… well, we’re not quit |
Phoenix Woman | 11/22/2015 | 60 | 29 | - | - |
| Hillary Clinton: Enough Clean Energy for Every Home by 2024 Hillary Clinton made the following announcement today:
“By the end of my first term, we will have installed a half a billion more solar panels, and by the end of my second term, enough clean e |
Phoenix Woman | 11/21/2015 | 123 | 85 | - | - |
| Brooklyn's Finest Bernie Sanders Praises Hillary's Post-9/11 Recovery Actions on New York's Behalf Lost in the many efforts to put a negative spin on a few of Hillary Clinton’s comments during the last debate was the fact that Bernie Sanders, for one, heartily approved and agreed with her on them: |
Phoenix Woman | 11/17/2015 | 292 | 78 | - | - |
| Want to stop ISIS? Stop backing the people behind them. The cry “What can we do to stop this?” comes up every time ISIS or some other group of Sunni Wahabist or neo-Wahabist types does an asymmetrical warfare move against the modern secular world: the Mosc |
Phoenix Woman | 11/14/2015 | 29 | 32 | - | - |
| Playing the Place Card: GOP Milks Rural-Urban Divisions for Political Gain The modern Republican Party uses the divide-and-conquer principle as its overarching guide when it comes to electoral politics. The Southern Strategy, where working-class whites are tricked by Republi |
Phoenix Woman | 11/11/2015 | 6 | 6 | - | - |
| Koch Front Group "Concerned Veterans" Attacks Hillary, Media Downplays Group's Koch Backing Just a quickie for you if you see any " Veterans Group Attacks Hillary " headlies today - the group in question is a wholly owned and funded Koch brothers political subsidiary :
'''Concerned ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/06/2015 | 15 | 22 | - | - |
| Twelve Years. 20,927 Comments. I'm Sticking Around. UID: 3037. Joined: Nov 6, 2003.
That's me. Twelve years ago, today.
I joined a year and a half after Markos founded the site. It was right around the time that Salon's Table Talk (my original ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/06/2015 | 179 | 179 | 1 | - |
| The Real (?) Anonymous has released the KKK list. Have at it. Hot off the intertubes :
The five official Twitter accounts affiliated with Anonymous’ long-awaited #OpKKK/#HoodsOff operation have released names they claim are active members of the Ku Klux Klan. |
Phoenix Woman | 11/05/2015 | 65 | 42 | 2 | - |
| Tom Harkin: Bernie and Hillary are both establishment politicians Tom Harkin, former US Senator from Iowa and a star in the progressive firmament, said this morning on Boston Herald Radio that Bernie Sanders is as much an establishment politician as is Hillary ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/02/2015 | 166 | 22 | - | - |
| Canada's Conservative "Mainstream" Press Caught Trying To Hand 2015 Election To The Tories The Guardian has the story :
The most common prediction ahead of last month’s Canadian election was that the country’s many polling firms would again fail to predict the results. In the event, ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/01/2015 | 55 | 49 | - | - |
| Three Reasons The GOP Fears Hillary And Ignores Bernie
I keep seeing Bernie supporters claiming that Bernie does better in the general against any Republican than does Hillary.
Ahem.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I have two of them, ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/31/2015 | 290 | 47 | - | - |
| When Hillary Talks, People Listen, Part 2: One Tweet Sends For-Profit Prison Stocks Tumbling We saw it a few weeks ago when her and Bill's remarks stopped Patriot Coal from screwing over its retirees , a tweet from her condemning Turing Pharmaceuticals for drug price gouging sent ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/30/2015 | 94 | 38 | - | - |
| The RNC Versus The Kochs: Who Will Win? Who Should Win? Earlier today, a fellow Kossack passed along what I consider to be a very valuable bit of information: Namely, this Yahoo! Politics story from June on how the Koch brothers are trying to hijack the ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/28/2015 | 17 | 9 | - | - |
| The Emptying of the Bleachers: Yes, Sanders' backers did walk out early on the JJ Dinner One of the things that certain Sanders supporters have told me over and over is that it's a lie that many if not most of the Sanders people walked out of the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner once their guy ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/27/2015 | 165 | 37 | 1 | - |
| Hillary in Bernie's White House? Bernie in Hillary's? It occurs to me that as a result of this race, the political stock of both candidates is going to be higher at the end of this process than it was at the beginning. High enough that it might make ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/23/2015 | 78 | 8 | - | - |
| Still true: If Trump could beat Hillary in the general, Reince Priebus would be giving him foot rubs As a recent diary notes, the GOP elite are freaking out over the staying power of Donald Trump.
Why does Trump freak out the GOP establishment so much? It's not as if his platform is radically ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/21/2015 | 58 | 14 | - | - |
| Bernie Sanders Supports Obama on Afghanistan Since nobody else seems to have written a diary on this , I figured I'd better do so:
During an interview on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday morning, host George Stephanopoulos asked Sanders, a ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/18/2015 | 72 | 23 | - | - |
| Elizabeth Warren, 2015: "I Agree with Hillary Clinton" on TPP's ISDS I see that a diary by a prominent supporter of a certain presidential candidate features an eleven-year-old video of Elizabeth Warren criticizing Hillary Clinton.
Wanna know why the partisan had to ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/18/2015 | 212 | 91 | 1 | - |
| Boehner finally gets a clue, is readying a debt ceiling bill. I must admit that I seriously overestimated Boehner's brains, not to mention his lack of Fs. It took him nearly three weeks to realize he wasn't going to be able to palm this mess off on his ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/14/2015 | 29 | 53 | - | - |
| The Stupidity (or Deceptiveness? or Both?) of Pretending Election SOP is a Plot Against Your Guy There's nothing like seeing people who pride themselves on their ethics and intelligence first write, then Rec, such a blatantly bogus and mendacious diary as one that's currently being marched up ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/12/2015 | 114 | 27 | - | - |
| When Hillary Talks, People Listen. The estimable Charles Pierce brought this to my attention:
Recently, the great Alec MacGillis at ProPublica revealed the way a coal company was planning to use the bankruptcy laws to rob the ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/11/2015 | 204 | 117 | 1 | - |
| Obama Halts Training Syrian "Moderate Rebel" Jihadists FINALLY .
WASHINGTON — After struggling for years to identify groups in Syria that it can confidently support, the Obama administration ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/09/2015 | 25 | 11 | - | - |
| An Appalled Team Biden Denies, Condemns Politico Story Know that Politico piece claiming that Biden himself was the source for that really icky Maureen Dowd column the other day claiming that his dying son's Beau's last wish was for Daddy to show what a ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/08/2015 | 98 | 12 | - | - |
| 1998: Year of Three Speakers (and What the US Press Won't Tell You About It) Ah, 1998.
The year the Republicans finally thought their six years of fishing expeditions and witchhunts (aka CoupGate or The Hunting of the President) would bear fruit. Newt was predicting 60-... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/07/2015 | 8 | 18 | - | - |
| Media Matters comes to Bernie's (and Hillary's, and Joe's) defense For all those who've convinced themselves that Media Matters can't be trusted because they hate Bernie, here's Media Matters' Eric Hananoki calling out USA Today for lying about Bernie as well as ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/04/2015 | 75 | 28 | - | - |
| Guess which Oregon sheriff is a Sandy Hook Truther? There are no words, ladies and gentlemen, so I'm just going to lay this out here for you:
Oregon mass-shooting sheriff John Hanlin is a Sandy Hook Truther.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/02/2015 | 82 | 206 | 3 | - |
| GOP: Hillary is Muskie, Bernie is McGovern Republican pundits like John Feehery operate on the belief that the more liberal a candidate, the less electable that candidate. Thus Feehery, when writing on then-Senator Hillary Clinton's losing ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/29/2015 | 171 | 16 | - | - |
| Boehner 2 Baggers: I Have Zero Fs to Give. The planned resignation of John Boehner is the best news we are likely to get this week.
For starters, it means that Cruz' plans to use a shutdown to preserve his presidential run are, if not dead, |
Phoenix Woman | 09/25/2015 | 21 | 28 | - | - |
| GOP's press pal Ron Fournier at it again spewing anti-Hillary crap Our celebrity press corps spends most of the summer roasting Hillary for doing what Colin Powell did with regard to Department of State email usage. Meanwhile Carly Fiorina's old company actually ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/24/2015 | 10 | 26 | - | - |
| Hillary's national rebound extends to Iowa and NH polls It's not just the latest CNN national poll that's showing Hillary's numbers recovering from the GOP-Media Complex's latest attempt at FauxGating her. Public Policy Polling (PDF link) shows Hillary ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/23/2015 | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Jeb flees the Latinos he once embraced Poor Jeb. The guy who once spoke Spanish on the campaign trail is now decrying "multiculturalism" as something that "retards" people's ability to... look and sound Anglo, I guess. Once he sold ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/22/2015 | 16 | 10 | - | - |
| CNN poll shows Hillary rebound, so suddenly it's apparently questionable Just as expected, once the press let up on its 24/7 transmitting of already debunked E-ghazi nonsense, Hillary Clinton's poll numbers are going back up again :
Clinton is backed by 42% of ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/21/2015 | 383 | 53 | 1 | - |
| Q-Poll: Hillary's a LIAR! (According to Republicans. Everyone else thinks she's fine.) I used to think that Rasmussen, Mason-Dixon, and Gallup were pretty skeevy GOP-friendly polling outfits, but the Quinnipiac folk seem to be giving them a run for their money lately (emphases mine):
... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/14/2015 | 60 | 47 | - | - |
| Is Scott Walker the next evictee from the GOP's Clown Car? I figured that Scotty Who Lies Without Consequence would stay in awhile longer thanks to the Kochs, but maaaaaaaaybe not :
Presidential candidate Scott Walker on Friday abruptly canceled his ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/12/2015 | 205 | 146 | - | - |
| Shout the Lie, Whisper the Retraction: NYT finally, grudgingly admits Hillary is in the clear. A couple of hours ago, Eric Boehlert noted the following:
Not making this up: Wash Times broke this story 35+ hrs ago; NYT finally sleepwalks half-hearted effort into print
Boehlert then linked to ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/11/2015 | 398 | 203 | 4 | - |
| "Warmonger" Hillary's efforts made the Iran Deal possible I see that a current Rec List diary (which I can't link to because that's "calling out" fellow Kossacks and thus forbidden except when FPers are targeted) is all but accusing the Democratic front-... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/09/2015 | 318 | 148 | 1 | - |
| Rubio, Cruz, Jeb: Your Silence on Trump's Bigotry Will Not Protect You Another day, another outrage committed by the Trump juggernaut:
When a group of troublemaking Americans, at least some of them suspiciously ethnic looking, showed up at a Donald Trump event with a ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/05/2015 | 8 | 7 | - | - |
| Roger Stone, Donald Trump, and the Long Con Like many of us here, I've been enjoying the seeming havoc Donald Trump's presidential run has been churning up on the Republican side. That is, until I saw this article by Mark Ames (unlocked ... |
Phoenix Woman | 08/30/2015 | 47 | 14 | - | - |
| Rubio and Cruz oddly silent on Trump treatment on Jorge Ramos Did you see the whupping Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz gave Donald Trump over his blatantly race-baiting treatment of two Univision reporters - one of whom, Jorge Ramos, is the Walter Cronkite of Latino ... |
Phoenix Woman | 08/27/2015 | 24 | 16 | - | - |
| If GOP's Internal Polls Showed Trump Beating Hillary, Reince Priebus Would Be Giving Him Foot Rubs With the first primaries less than six months away, Donald Trump is leading the Republican field and has been for over a month.
And the Republican establishment has, for over a month , wailed ... |
Phoenix Woman | 08/19/2015 | 19 | 5 | - | - |
| Turkey's killing anti-ISIS fighters, but no one cares as the victims are Socialists Anyone who really thinks that rapidly-desecularizing Turkey has finally decided to stop beating up on the Kurds and start getting tough on the Wahabist jihadists known as ISIS needs to think again : |
Phoenix Woman | 07/29/2015 | 11 | 19 | 1 | - |
| Attention Hillary: Here's how we stopped voter suppression in Minnesota Hillary Clinton has always seemed to me to be a bit more willing to use the Big Hammer, as Bartcop would say, than either Bill or Barack. So it's no surprise to see her going after voter ... |
Phoenix Woman | 06/06/2015 | 10 | 30 | - | - |
| The CoupGate Files #1: The Folks Who Smeared the Clintons the First Time Around In light of how various conservatives and their media accomplices are trying to conceal their roles in enabling the disastrous invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan (actions which cost between 100 and ... |
Phoenix Woman | 05/23/2015 | 9 | 11 | - | - |
| Hersh's bin Laden Tale: Exchanging One Bogosity for Another Seymour Hersh's Osama bin Laden endgame blockbuster story is getting a bit more coverage in the wider mainstream media than some of his other recent post-Abu-Ghraib stories (such as, for instance, ... |
Phoenix Woman | 05/13/2015 | 55 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Tories won with this lie: "Labour wants SNP to Destroy the UK!" The 2015 UK elections were decided by the issues surrounding Scotland. End of story.
It wasn't because Labour wasn't left enough - if that was true, why didn't people turn out in droves for the ... |
Phoenix Woman | 05/09/2015 | 36 | 5 | - | - |
| David Bly on the "Big Picture" of Minnesota Ag and Outdoors Minnesota State Representative David Bly , D-20B (Northfield), is a longtime champion of sensible agricultural practices that benefit everyone and everything. Chief among them: the preservation of ... |
Phoenix Woman | 05/04/2015 | 4 | 7 | - | - |
| Surprise! Private Industry, Not Gov't., responsible for DHS security breach I'm posting this here because we all know this will never get mentioned by the majority of the commercial mass media in the US - at least not accurately:
Government background checker [and private-... |
Phoenix Woman | 04/23/2015 | 6 | 5 | - | - |
| New Anti-Warren Smear: She Hates Social Security! Most publications geared towards Federal employees are pretty honest, straightforward, and trustworthy.
Then there's "FedSmith".
FedSmith seems to be run by and stuffed with writings from people ... |
Phoenix Woman | 04/21/2015 | 13 | 7 | - | - |
| BATTLE STATIONS, Minnesotans! MNGOP's Taking Dead Aim At Our Solar Rooftops! Jean Wagenius sounded the alarm Sunday.
The North Star chapter of the Sierra Club sounded the alarm yesterday.
Sally Jo Sorensen ... |
Phoenix Woman | 04/07/2015 | 13 | 25 | 1 | - |
| ACCE/ALEC and the Lobbying Grift Kossacks, including myself, got an introduction to ALEC's local-government-targeting little brother ACCE this week.
Intrigued, I checked with Bluestem Prairie's Sally Jo Sorensen, the Minnesota ... |
Phoenix Woman | 04/03/2015 | 11 | 13 | 1 | - |
| Why Don't More People Vote, Especially for Democrats? (Here's a Hint: LBJ.) It started when one person wrote this diary , making the argument common among white progressive circles that the Democratic Party lost populists (as well as Americans in general) because they ... |
Phoenix Woman | 04/01/2015 | 51 | 35 | 1 | - |
| Every Major GOP Prez Hopeful Used Private Email Accounts. Even as the habitual HRC demonizers whip themselves into ecstasies of rage over whatever scraps that they think they can find to keep alive a story the NYT was forced to walk back over two weeks ago , |
Phoenix Woman | 03/31/2015 | 37 | 19 | 1 | - |
| GA Dems (and sane Reps) stopped a bad law. You can too. Not only did Democrats and sane Republicans in the Georgia legislature figure out how to stop a bad law, they provided a template for pro-equality activists in other states to do the same.
... |
Phoenix Woman | 03/28/2015 | 19 | 87 | 2 | - |
| Dictator Daudt and Lunkhead Tim Miller, Minnesota's own Kings of Word Salad and Wankery What with all the talk of kings lately, here are two guys who are kings in their own very special ways.
One claims not to be "the king of Minnesota", but he most definitely is the King of Word ... |
Phoenix Woman | 03/23/2015 | 5 | 5 | - | - |
| Howell Raines and the NYT's War on the Clintons As the puffed-up Fauxgate known as "Emailgahzi" finally recedes after the NYT was compelled to walk back most if not all of their original stories on the fake scandal, one might wish to ask why this ... |
Phoenix Woman | 03/14/2015 | 19 | 14 | - | - |
| Key NYT source: Hillary's actions were legal. Period. Despite what the Times' Michael Schmidt tried to insinuate in his original March 2, 2015 hit piece, his own main source, former National Archives and Records Administration litigation chief Jason ... |
Phoenix Woman | 03/05/2015 | 64 | 49 | 1 | - |
| What happens when you don't weed your garden. This is a parable of three gardens, the good plants they once had, and the weeds that overrun them now.
Read past the tiger lily bloom for more. |
Phoenix Woman | 02/09/2015 | 12 | 6 | - | - |
| Mustapha and Zineb: They Were Charlie I thought it might be useful to talk about Mustapha Ourrad and Zineb El Rhazoui , two of the people who worked for Charlie Hebdo. Ourrad died, but Rhazoui survived; she was on vacation in her ... |
Phoenix Woman | 01/12/2015 | 5 | 17 | - | - |
| Occupy Safety: An Answer to Pat Lynch's NYPD Thuggery Remember when the Occupy Wall Street movement, considered all but dead, mobilized to aid New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia residents in the aftermath of Occupy Sandy?
With the decision of the ... |
Phoenix Woman | 01/11/2015 | 7 | 3 | - | - |
| Obama's lame-duck strategy: Poke the GOP Base at Every Opportunity. Charlie Pierce lays it out:
So the president has set up a neat brawl among the Republicans with a move that has massive support even from most Cuban Americans. As we said before, very ... |
Phoenix Woman | 12/19/2014 | 141 | 230 | 1 | - |
| Action Alert: GOP to Greater Minnesota Farmers: We're Going to Shut YOU Up! The Minnesota Republicans who just won back the lower state chamber after the urbane West Metro billionaires that love them funded a multi-million-dollar campaign depicting Republicans as hearty ... |
Phoenix Woman | 12/05/2014 | 6 | 13 | - | - |
| John McCain, Iran Coddler File this under "If this were about a Democrat the mainstream press would be all over it":
Congress may use must-pass legislation in the next two weeks to slip through a controversial land deal ... |
Phoenix Woman | 12/02/2014 | 8 | 15 | - | - |
| Why's Mitch McConnell desperate to stifle shutdown talk? Mary Landrieu. Mitch McConnell is doing everything in his power to tamp down the effects of the crazy talk by Ted Cruz, Mark Meadows and Mike Lee. He's smart enough not to try and forbid them from spouting off -- ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/11/2014 | 10 | 19 | - | - |
| The Second-Term Midterm (Almost) Always Sucks There's been and will continue to be a lot of hair-tearing over what happened last night, but the simplest factor in the 2014 midterms is one that no mainstream commentator is going to address:
The ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/05/2014 | 17 | 5 | - | - |
| Minnesota poll reports: Gophers, post here if you would When I went to vote this afternoon in Saint Paul's North End, I was #395, which is the highest I can recall being in my precinct. The polling place was busy as all get out and the poll workers all ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/04/2014 | 7 | 2 | - | - |
| Small Races, Big Results: How to Hang onto the Senate for Spare Change In this excellent diary by David Jarman on where your Democratic donations would do the most good, fellow Kossack tmservo433 (I checked with him and he's OK with being referenced and quoted) had an ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/28/2014 | 24 | 30 | 2 | - |
| Teflon Jesus to the Rescue! MN GOP's SoS Nominee Brings the Apostolic Cookware Cray-Cray One of my best friends once had for a boss a guy who was a classic case of both 9/11 and Obama Derangement Syndrome. A lifelong Democrat, he switched to the GOP once it was clear that a black man ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/22/2014 | 15 | 5 | - | - |
| Dear President Obama: With ISIS and Assad, it's either/or, not both. Just in case some folk still thought there were such things as "moderate Sunni rebels" being funded in Syria by Saudi and Kuwaiti armchair jihadists, this bit of news should serve to disabuse them ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/13/2014 | 56 | 19 | - | - |
| Rothenberg & Cook predict Dem doom. Evidence-based research, not so much. Another day, another set of data-free doom predictions from Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenberg -- complete with their statements from "Democrats" (who they never seem to quote, much less name) about ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/10/2014 | 16 | 20 | - | - |