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Posting History for Phoenix Woman

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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 -
The REALLY Harsh Reality of Free Trade
While I love a certain bond trader to bits, his Kos diary ...
Phoenix Woman 11/22/2007 80 53 5 31
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 - -
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 - -
Circular Firing Squad! Woohoo!
Phoenix Woman 02/08/2006 76 2 - -
Hillary Hearts Bush: "He's Charismatic!"
Phoenix Woman 05/10/2006 75 6 - 12
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 - -
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 - -
Killing "Witch" Children: Do We Respect The Killers' Feelings?
Children in Africa are being murdered in the name of God -- yes, the Christian God -- for allegedly being "...
Phoenix Woman 10/18/2009 71 33 - 30
Solar: As Cheap As Oil In Five Years?
Today seems to be the Good News Day for alternative energy! First we hear about this big breakthrough with hydrogen fuel . Now ...
Phoenix Woman 11/13/2007 70 46 4 60
OH NO! This Site Isn't What It Used To Be! (Um, yes it is.)
For all the talk of people leaving DKos lately, you'd think that a) there'd never been any candidate wars before (geez, did people forget the Dean 2003-4 flame wars so soon? Or the whole pie ...
Phoenix Woman 03/07/2008 70 22 - 42
Rasmussen: Edwards beats Rudy nationwide
I've been largely staying out of the candidate food fights this time around (I was a Deanizen four years ago and the nastiness got to me). But I felt I should post something on this race -- and yes,
Phoenix Woman 09/26/2007 69 38 - 28
New Report: Public Schools As Good As Private
Phoenix Woman 07/15/2006 68 25 1 41
How Many Here Want To See Our Economy Die?
Upon looking at the DKos reaction to Mitch McConnell's telling Harry Reid and GM/Ford/Chrysler that ...
Phoenix Woman 12/11/2008 68 13 3 40
Do Only WHITE 'Religious Voters' Count?
It's so funny to see people like Jim Wallis taking Atrios and Kos to task for daring to ...
Phoenix Woman 02/20/2007 66 29 - 8
Krugman, Klein, and Getting It Wrong
Surprise, surprise: Naomi Klein writes a piece for The Nation complaining that Obama has spoken in support of capitalism. ...
Phoenix Woman 06/19/2008 66 14 - 15
ALERT NY Kossacks: Teabaggers mobbing Gillibrand's Office!
This just hit my e-mail box: Sorry for the last minute notice, but I'm hearing that the right has planned a protest outside of Senator Gillibrand's office today at 11am. Channel 11 news ...
Phoenix Woman 09/18/2009 66 28 1 55
Capitol Hill Progs Heed Rahm at Their Peril
Rahm Emanuel thinks that not having a health care bill passed is what killed the Dems in 1994 -- hence the hair-on-fire gotta-get-it-by-Christmas silliness ...
Phoenix Woman 12/10/2009 66 19 - 95
Berlusconi Up To His Ears In TreasonGate (Forgery Edition)
Phoenix Woman 10/29/2005 65 121 3 28
NPR Airs IDF Smear Against Turkish Charity Well AFTER It Was Debunked
This morning on NPR , I got to hear a story about how the French have linked IHH, the Turkish aid group that organized ...
Phoenix Woman 06/07/2010 65 36 - 49
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 -
"He's Not DOING Anything!!!!"
There are some folks out there -- and they're the people who always have done this sort of thing, and been ...
Phoenix Woman 02/05/2009 64 36 - 29
When They Say 'Gitmo', They Want You To Think 'N*gg*r' or 'Sp*c'
You all have heard about the strange RNC attack ad leveled against Nancy ...
Phoenix Woman 05/24/2009 64 20 - 35
Wal-Mart(!) backs Obama health-care plan
Obama was talking up the public option again today. And in more good news, Wal-Mart (the nation’s ...
Phoenix Woman 07/01/2009 64 44 - 23
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 -
Why do GBCW Diaries?
Bill in Portland nails it right here , in response to the phenomenon of people doing Le Grand Public Kiss-Offs to Daily Kos ...
Phoenix Woman 01/26/2008 63 21 - 11
MLK Jr. versus Malcolm X
To judge from some of the overheated rhetoric lately -- much of it done by people who were never Obama fans anyway -- you'd think ...
Phoenix Woman 04/28/2008 62 3 - 12
Obama: Returning Faith-Based Policy To A Pre-Bush State
I do hope not everyone's gone into Lord of the Flies mode over the non-issue of Obama's undoing a bit of Bush policy. That's right: undoing . Government and religious ...
Phoenix Woman 07/01/2008 62 18 - 30
We're Watching You, Steny Hoyer.
Phoenix Woman 11/16/2006 61 16 - 10
Gay Groups: Smelt case won't undo DOMA, and may strengthen it
There is currently much of a muchness being stirred by people who push our rage buttons for fun and profit concerning the DOJ, the Smelt case, and DOMA. But before people go off half-cocked -- or ...
Phoenix Woman 06/12/2009 61 5 1 42
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 - -
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 - -
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 - -
Obama Overrules Gates, Kills Nuke Program
You'd think that a) a president overruling his SecDef and/or b) cancelling a major nuclear-weapons program would be Big News. But ...
Phoenix Woman 05/15/2009 58 65 1 64
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 - -
"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 - -
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.   Redunda
Phoenix Woman 01/12/2016 57 24 - -
Urban Agrarianism: The New Wave?
I read Stranded Wind's diary today and it got me thinking about my days of thirty years ago, when I read The Mother ...
Phoenix Woman 05/06/2008 56 38 5 120
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 - -
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 - -
Boston Globe: "Many voting for Clinton to boost GOP"
As most of you know, Rush Limbaugh, believing that John McCain would find Hillary Clinton easier to beat than Barack Obama (a belief which several pollsters over several months have buttressed), ...
Phoenix Woman 03/17/2008 55 20 2 22
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 -
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 - -
Peggy NOONAN Turns Against Bush?!
Phoenix Woman 04/20/2006 54 26 - 23
All-Drama Rahm Attacks People Who Made His 2nd WH Stint Possible
These words appeared under Dana Milbank's byline this morning: ...
Phoenix Woman 02/20/2010 54 28 1 31
The High Cost of "Cheap" Energy
Whenever somebody brings up the topic of renewable energy, somebody else comes along to say that it's just too expensive compared to coal. There are twenty-nine miners who might, if they were still ...
Phoenix Woman 04/10/2010 54 30 - 46
Juan Williams is a Sexist Pig.  Discuss.
From a November 2, 1991 Washington Post article on Juan Williams : Washington Post ...
Phoenix Woman 10/22/2010 54 29 - 205
MN Republicans Panic as County Clerks Compare Notes on Cost of 'Voter ID' Amendment
Word is starting to get around in Minnesota, both from outside and inside the state, of ...
Phoenix Woman 09/16/2012 54 333 8 2891
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 - -
American Jews and the GOP: They're Not Buying Bush's Bull
Phoenix Woman 02/23/2006 53 7 - -
"Georgian" video may really be of bombed S. Ossetian capital
Here's something you won't see on the US TV networks : American broadcaster CNN has been accused of using the wrong pictures in ...
Phoenix Woman 08/13/2008 53 22 - 20
David Brooks Tries SCAAAARING Dems Away From Reconciliation
As the prospect of losing Teddy Kennedy's Senate seat looms, Congressman and DCCC Chaif Chris Van Hollen has joined Senator Bernie Sanders in ...
Phoenix Woman 01/19/2010 53 28 - 21
GM, Ford calling workers back as Cash 4 Clunkers revs up sales
Cash for Clunkers may be what saves us all. From http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/business/19gm.html -- [GM] said Tuesday it would add shifts and run some plants on overtime so it can ...
Phoenix Woman 08/22/2009 52 14 - 26
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 - -
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 - -
Three Worst Muhammad Cartoons: FAKES!
Phoenix Woman 02/06/2006 51 5 1 110
So What, Exactly, Did DannyDeVito Do Wrong?
Help me out, here: So what, exactly, did Danny DeVito do wrong? Really, what did he do wrong? All I know is that, after a night on the town with George "Sex on Legs" Clooney, he went ...
Phoenix Woman 12/02/2006 51 3 - 5
David Frum: Prosecuting Torturers = Partisan "Show Trials"
If you're wondering about the sort of mindset that The Villagers who've run Washington for the past four decades have, ...
Phoenix Woman 04/24/2009 51 6 1 28
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 -
So Will Reid Tell KERRY To "Shut The Hell Up"?
Phoenix Woman 12/09/2005 50 12 - 20
Hillary's Preacher Problem
First McCain and Hagee/Parsley, then Obama and Wright, now Clinton and "The Family": HRC's now part of the "preacher problem club". From ...
Phoenix Woman 03/20/2008 50 18 - 27
How to Shut Down a Major Series of Congressional Hearings in One Easy Step
Remember how there were going to be a bunch of hearings on Capitol Hill concerning the plans of certain big businesses to try and game the health care bill? Ever wonder what happened to all those ...
Phoenix Woman 05/06/2010 50 29 - 37
NC Insiders: Edwards has little clout in NC
Remember Kos' telling us that former Senators/Governors/Congresscritters/etc. have no clout with the voters of their home states because they have no political machine, whereas mayors ...
Phoenix Woman 05/04/2008 49 7 1 -
NQ Gloaters:  Hillary's Record on FISA is Worse.
Ah, the rabid McCain backers and Hillary "supporters" (thanks to Angry Mouse, one of the Sane Majority of the HRC supporters,
Phoenix Woman 06/21/2008 49 8 - 29
Chris Dodd: No Punishment for Lieberman
That's right, folks: Chris Dodd's rushing to ...
Phoenix Woman 10/28/2009 49 12 - 41
GOP Admits They'll Never Undo Payroll Tax Cuts, Once Made
Is the slow, irreversible starvation of your futures worth giving huge tax cuts to the ...
Phoenix Woman 12/08/2010 49 36 1 114
Kathy Sierra: A Better Response
Last week Kos posted what he thought he knew about Kathy Sierra in the context for her call,
Phoenix Woman 04/16/2007 48 25 - 6
Bringing Clinton Fans Up To Speed On The Real Obama: Part Two
This is Part Two in a series of diaries involving undoing some of the anti-Obama myths propagated all over the place and especially by sites such as Hillaryis44, et cetera. Part One, which dealt ...
Phoenix Woman 05/08/2008 48 40 5 37
What Happens When Unarmed Black People Occupy A Wildlife Refuge? They Get Arrested. Promptly.
x YouTube Video 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 - -
What If Keith Ellison Was A WHITE Muslim?
(Crossposted at Mercury Rising .) In the wake ...
Phoenix Woman 12/21/2006 47 8 - 8
Obama using Edwards' themes to pull ahead
Barack Obama has good taste in borrowing: Obama borrows from Edwards January 5, 2008 01:19 PM By Sasha ...
Phoenix Woman 01/06/2008 47 9 - 3
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 - -
Dems ARE Opposing Torture: Levin, Markey Leading the Way
Phoenix Woman 09/24/2006 43 35 - 7
Obama Ordering Gitmo Closed and Other Trivial Matters
While half the folks on DKos are writing Why Wasn't My Purple Ticket Any Good? diaries, President Obama has been frittering away his time on things ...
Phoenix Woman 01/21/2009 43 20 - 18
Here's Something Obama Did Right: Copenhagen
The Guardian's Mark Lynas reveals that Copenhagen was rigged by the Chinese to fail even before ...
Phoenix Woman 12/22/2009 43 26 - 53
Domenich Aftermath: TIME FOR PUSHBACK!
Phoenix Woman 03/24/2006 42 4 - 48
"It never was America to me."
I surmise that most of the people who are doing the woe-is-us diaries are very likely white people of a certain educational and/or social standing that most other Americans would see as in some way ...
Phoenix Woman 06/22/2008 42 67 6 66
The History of the Conspiracy to Link Obama to Triggers
Liberals now are very concerned with the conspiracy of journalists trying to link President Obama to triggers, and their shady practice of using anonymous sources is of much more concern than the ...
Phoenix Woman 10/26/2009 42 21 - 41
Same Folks Who Lied Us into Iraq Now Lying about Muslim Brotherhood
They've been all over our TV screens (especially FOX) and radio dials: Neocons and their dupes screeching that we can't let the Egyptian people have democracy because of (eeeek!) the Muslim ...
Phoenix Woman 01/29/2011 42 25 - 161
Why I Love The StarTribune: TreasonGate Edition
Phoenix Woman 07/17/2005 41 97 - -
Rove and the Grand Jury: The Known Facts
Phoenix Woman 06/13/2006 41 16 2 8
Fertility Drugs and "God's Will"
The same scene keeps happening over and over again. Woman takes fertility drugs. Maybe she's a Quiverfull member, maybe she comes from a large family, maybe she and her spouse just want a ...
Phoenix Woman 06/18/2007 41 13 - 17
2008 Democratic Delegate Counts (so far)!
Because we all need a little reality check: Per CNN as of last night (with the Magic Number being 2,025): ...
Phoenix Woman 01/09/2008 41 9 1 19
Gallup, Rasmussen: Obama's Numbers Not Hurt By Various FauxGates
Republicans like Grover Norquist and Ed Rollins will be sad to hear that the OJ/bittergate/etc. bull hasn't dented Obama's lead over Hillary (or, in the Gallup poll,
Phoenix Woman 04/14/2008 41 15 - 43
Lieberman's Clinton Gambit Backfiring Already?
Phoenix Woman 07/21/2006 40 26 - 21
Obama to Congress: Stay and Work
Harry Reid announced today that Joe Lieberman and the Republicans are getting their wish, and ...
Phoenix Woman 07/23/2009 40 33 1 22
Solar Roadways: At the White House!
This little news item greeted visitors to Solar Roadways' Indiegogo site this morning: We were sworn to secrecy until now, but Solar Roadways was invited to the first ever Maker Faire hosted by ...
Phoenix Woman 06/18/2014 40 35 - -
Hackett Can Win Back The Reagan Democrats
Phoenix Woman 10/18/2005 39 12 - 13
Michelle More Popular Than Cindy
Atrios noted this morning that the right-wingers who control our media's puppet strings have been pushing the ...
Phoenix Woman 06/18/2008 39 16 1 22
Nouriel Roubini Hearts Obama's Econ Team
One of the themes I’ve noticed in the lefty part of the blogosphere lately is a tendency to rag on Obama’s economic team, especially Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner. This is being ...
Phoenix Woman 11/25/2008 39 21 - 57
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 - -
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 - -
AIG: Give Us The $ Or Your Economy Dies
As Emptywheel says , that's the only way to ...
Phoenix Woman 03/16/2009 38 12 1 21
The Great Big Myth/Lie: "Reconciliation Won't Work for HCR!"
From Jon Walker over at The Seminal: First, the ...
Phoenix Woman 12/16/2009 38 8 - 23
Want the Senate (or House) HCR Bill passed? Push for reconciliation.
With Teddy Kennedy's seat the latest on Capitol Hill to be unexpectedly close to falling into Republican hands (
Phoenix Woman 01/18/2010 38 9 1 24
Urban Agrarianism, Part Two: Pittsburgh and Environs
Earlier I did a diary on how the former steel town of Youngstown, Ohio , chose to take the old, vacated parts of town ...
Phoenix Woman 05/12/2008 37 31 2 71
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 -
What's Judy Miller REALLY Protecting?
Phoenix Woman 07/14/2005 36 16 - 27
The Unity Bounce: It's Real and Unforced
It's already happening. Poblano's documenting the first signs .
Phoenix Woman 06/07/2008 36 27 1 26
Honduras Coup: Myths and Facts
There was an article on Honduras the other day that -- because it came from a guy who has done good work in the past -- ticked me off more than it usually would be, and so served as the impetus for ...
Phoenix Woman 10/27/2009 36 33 2 231