Bartlett: GOP is Now Demanding "Absolute Subservience" (Update)
Following close on the heels of conservative commentator David Frum's recent column in which he lambasted the Republicans for their obstructionist tactics, former Bush economic adviser Bruce Bartlett...
View ArticleI Joined the Tea Party Today
To the Daily Kos community:I have been doing a lot of soul-searching lately. Earlier today, I made the decision to join the tea party. Please join me over the fold to hear my story.
View ArticleCalifornia AG Clears ACORN of Criminal Wrongdoing
San Francisco Chronicle, April 2, 2010: California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Thursday that he will not prosecute the community organizing group ACORN or conservative filmmakers who posed as a...
View ArticleShocker: CNN Creates a False Equivalence Over "Wingnuts" (late update)
Yesterday on American Morning, John Avlon of The Daily Beast presented his "Wingnuts of the Week," in which he identified two groups that apparently represent the political extremes of the left and...
View ArticleThe Lasting Consequences of Slaughtering Civilians
On Sunday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was asked by Jake Tapper on ABC's This Week if the now-infamous WikiLeaks video showing the slaughter of Iraqi civilians would have a damaging impact on the...
View Article"Kagan is Gay" Rumors Prove We're Still an Adolescent Nation
Last Sunday, former Republican Senate staffer Ben Domenech published a blog post in The New Ledger in which he outlined President Obama's top ten picks to replace Justice Stevens on the Supreme Court....
View ArticleTell Me Your Story, Daily Kos
"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."-- David McCullough Reflecting on the time I've spent on Daily Kos since September 2008, one...
View ArticleDisgraceful Government Hypocrisy Over WikiLeaks & ACORN
This will be a tale of two cities: Two Washingtons, two governments, two mass medias, and two political topics that bind them.Earlier in the month, the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks released the...
View ArticleTea Party Leader Mark Williams: "Allah is a Monkey God"
Mark Williams, the conservative radio host and chairman of the Tea Party Express, had a few choice words on his blog last Friday about a plan to build a mosque around Ground Zero (emphasis mine):The...
View ArticleRIP Gary Coleman: 1968-2010
This will be a quick, non-political diary. Actor Gary Coleman, famous for his role as Arnold Jackson on "Diff'rent Strokes,"has died.Gary Coleman has died at 42, RadarOnline.com has learned.Coleman...
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Plans for a 2010 Daily Kos Chess Tournament
To the Daily Kos community:I am writing to discuss a proposal for a second Daily Kos Chess Tournament. Last year, we held a successful inaugural tourney that I had suggested one day on a whim, only to...
View ArticlePurity and Other Argumentative Fallacies on Daily Kos
One thing that has always intrigued me about debating politics on Daily Kos is the types of arguments that people use to express their political views. As someone who has frequently criticized...
View ArticlePentagon: No Evidence that WikiLeaks Docs Harm Security
(Updated below)After the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks released more than 91,000 documents pertaining to the Afghanistan War, the Obama Administration was quick to condemn the leaks as an action...
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It's time to play Name That Kossack!
Greetings, soon-to-be-DK4 users!I've developed a fun little picture riddle game for everyone which I'm calling Name That Kossack. Here's how it works:I will give you a series of pictures, both...
View ArticleMeta Monday: A Requiem for DK3
DK3, child of Markos Moulitsas, beloved student of Meteor Blades, trusted colleague of Susan Gardner, siblings of the late DK1 and DK2, and notable frenemy of political commentators everywhere, died on...
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St. Patrick's Day: A Diary in Green
Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone! I decided to repost this diary from last year in which I described a little bit of the holiday's history. In 2010, I wrote the diary using green font, but...
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It's time to play Name That Kossack!
It's time for another edition of Name That Kossack, the picture riddle game where a username is worth a thousand words. Here's how it works:I will give you a series of Photoshopped pictures, and based...
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Name That Kossack!
It's time for another edition of Name That Kossack, the picture riddle game where a username is worth a thousand words.Here's how it works: I will give you a series of Photoshopped pictures, and based...
View ArticleHuman Rights Diary Rescue: 3 Must-Reads on Gitmo, Bagram, and War
There were a few excellent diaries written this past week that I wanted to highlight for their incisive and informative analysis of issues pertaining to civil liberties and human rights abuses....
View Article18-Across: Guess which Kossack was mentioned in the NYT today!
I have a fun little story to share with you: Someone very special in the Daily Kos community has been mentioned in today's New York Times, but it's not in the way you might think. In fact, it's in the...
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