Quickly forgotten May 23 DailyKos Diary caused selection of Biden
This brilliant diary, found at http://www.dailykos.com/... , recounts how my sister and I came to the realization that Biden had to be the one. And how we realized that to make it happen, what we had...
View ArticleA challenge to Mika Brzezinski
Mika, sitting next to Scarborough every morning gives you an advantage of favorable comparison. You criticized DailyKos this morning, Sept. 3, about 8:10 a.m. EDT - but do you come here yourself, or...
View Articleanother odd oscillation of Chris Matthews
One day Chris Matthews will do something good, the next day something awful. I had been working on a diary about some atrocity of his, and then I just couldn' t publish it because he roped Bachmann...
View ArticleJonathan Turley is right - Obama is unprincipled
in the matter of torture by USA. Just as Turley is saying now on Maddow's show, it is dishonest to talk about prosecuting war crimes as if it were vindictiveness. There is no excuse for this. Obama is...
View ArticleThe book Chavez gave to Obama
First I saw Chuck Todd talking about the significance of the book, Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina, the Open Veins of Latin America. Every mention I have seen of the book was along the same lines...
View ArticleDonna Edwards Town Hall - an expertly run meeting
At the Oxon Hill public library in Oxon Maryland, Donna Edwards held a town hall meeting. The woman is brilliant. The teabag people were out there, but she ran the meeting in such a perfect way that...
View Articlehealth care - only way to win is to reduce it to the essence
The birthers and the anti-health care screamers are the same people. I think that is obvious. I think the amplification of the birthers was to rev them up for anti-health care activism. And the...
View ArticleLiberal dissatisfaction with Obama - is it the media's fault?
There is an awful lot to blame the news media for. Obama has been treated by them unfairly in many ways, since the primary, especially when they thought Hillary would probably eventually win. But the...
View ArticleSam Stein in Huffington Post -- Harry Reid defending Public Option against Obama
An article in today's Huffington Post, "Leaderless: Senate Pushes for Public Option Without Obama's Support," http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... , opens with the following: President Barack Obama is...
View ArticleSam Alito thinks he is president
Kasie Hunt of Politico reports that when the Supreme Court endorsed the personhood of Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, Exxon, etc., in the SOTU, Sam Alito mouthed the words " not true . "...
View ArticleJustice Department sues Arpaio
The Department of Justice is suing Joe Arpaio, Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, for failing to cooperate with its investigate into alleged discrimination against Hispanics by Arpaio and his...
View ArticleI am not convinced of the importance of filibuster reform.
When the Republicans have narrow majorities in Congress, they can get major radical legislation through. When the Democrats have big majorities, they struggle to get watered down legislation passed. I...
View Articleshameful words of barack obama
Obama is bad for having said that the hardworking business owners who have built their enterprises with blood, sweat and tears, did not build what they obviously did build, with their own two hands....
View ArticleIs Paul Ryan a self-made man?
Since his identification as Romney's running mate, I have several times heard a certain narrative about Paul Ryan being advanced - that he is a self-made man who had to overcome the tragedy of losing...
View Articlechris christie says he thinks romney wished he could take back birther comment
So he says: http://todayonthetrail.today.com/... what romney said about nobody ever asked him for his birth certificate, it's just something that slipped out, and these things are going to happen if...
View ArticleDonna Edwards to speak at DNC 5:30 p.m. Thursday
Donna Edwards, wonderful congresswoman from Maryland's 4th District, is supposed to address the convention at 5:30 p.m. Edwards is compelling because of her exceptional knowledge, talent, goodness and...
View ArticleWilmington Insurrection and the right to bear arms
The essential argument of the crusaders for no controls on guns is that if the citizens can't have all the weapons they want, then they will be defenseless against a tyrannical government. I believe...
View ArticleVenezuela-US coooperation
I am fooled by the news stream, even though I am skeptical.I have been led to believe that Venezuela and the USA are practically enemies.Venezuela is in the news now, right?Well looky here on MSNBC....
View Article12 year old boy explains the Egyptian revolution
Forgive me if someone else has posted this video.http://www.youtube.com/...The power of his statement goes so far beyond anything that would come from someone who had just been indoctrinated or made to...
View ArticleDavid Brock goes after Sanders
David Brock, author of "The Real Anita Hill," breaker of the "troopergate" story in right wing publication "American Spectator," spokesperson for the pro-Hillary Clinton super-PAC correct the record,...
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