U.S. Will Fingerprint 13 Million More in Fall
The message to foreign travelers into the United States is now clear -- we now consider each and every one of you a criminal suspect. According to WAPO, "Millions of visitors from some of the United...
View Articlea bit of fun
Just received an email from the Bush campaign calling on all patriots to battle the first amendment rights of 527 groups like Moveon.Org. Looks like they're paying to send letters to the FEC:...
View ArticleBritain Invades US to end slavery...then what?
To put the Iraq war in perspective -- including recent events like today's Fallujah mosque bombing -- I like to try to imagine what we Americans would do in their shoes. What would have happened if...
View ArticleWeak states are the problem
Jessica Stern's article in Salon today does a fantastic job setting up Condi Rice's testimony tomorrow. Here's an excerpt: "The greatest threat America faces today does not stem from "rogue states"...
View ArticleThe Rapture !!!!
I've just discovered the Ready Rapture message board -- where right-wingers talk about the Second Coming and other wholesome topics. They also talk about "Breaking News in These End Times," including...
View ArticleThis Just In: New Right-Wing Cartoon
I just caught a dreary new right-wing cartoon on Spike TV called This Just In. Tonight's episode features cartoon versions of Bill O'Reilly, Moby, and Michael Moore. The animation looks cheap and the...
View ArticleWho cares if a politician is sincere?
The question of a candidates "motivation" for running can be turned around. What is our motivation for asking the question in the first place? What is it about our culture that makes us worry about...
View ArticleClarke controlled by Osama?
Truly frightening. Why does George W. Bush seems immune to remote mind control? Does the President have special powers that allow him to resist? Or maybe.... by Ian Watson While President Bush and...
View ArticleBush = Hitler?
Excerpt from the latest Bush fundraising letter signed by his campaign chairman, Marc Racicot -- more hypocrisy and hyperbole. "John Kerry is relying on the help from radical left propaganda groups...
View Articlemore on prison abuse
Has this been discussed today? Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse...more PR thanks to Rummy and the Bush administration. Sex and Jesus? "Previously secret sworn statements by detainees...
View ArticleDLC Hawks still costing Kerry?
Up to 15 or 20% of W's support is now coming from self-identified "Democrats" (in this depressing era of post-GOP-love-fest polls). The number one issue for these voters is clearly national security....
View ArticleBush confident about debates
Remember how the media lowered the bar for George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential debates? Everyone knew the tongue-tied governor couldn't possibly outdebate Al Gore. So we were told George W. Bush...
View ArticleDefine Rovian
Given what we know about Karl Rove's campaign tactics now and in the past (see links below), I'm wondering if there's a good working definition of "Rovian" out there? It's often used as a synonym for...
View ArticleKerry Debate Win Sparks Stock Market Rally
That's what the business headlines ought to say this afternoon. Instead, we get this horseshit from CBS Market Watch: "Commenting on Thursday night's presidential debate, Boockvar said the consensus...
View ArticleBeyond Moveon.Org (long essay)
We liberals need to spend a bit less time crafting clever rhetoric and advertising, and a lot more thought, time and money on retaking local institutions. Don't get me wrong. Fighting the propagandists...
View ArticleWhat Did Bush Promise PUTIN?
"Putin: Terror Attacks Aimed at Bush" ""I consider the activities of terrorists in Iraq are not as much aimed at coalition forces but more personally against President Bush (news - web sites)," Putin...
View ArticleStarting November 3
We know the nightmare. The federal government is controlled by a single political party, which represents some states and citizens (well, mostly corporations) at the expense of the majority. So what...
View ArticleThe Religion of the Rich
To be Karl Rove fiendish for a sec, we all know we need to target groups of voters and peel them off of the nasty GOP coalition. And to do that, we need to frame our opponents' so-called "moral...
View ArticleEvolution Ballot Initiative Proposal
The bad news is that Creationism is like a crusty old barnacle that won't let go. Forty-five percent of Americans still "believe that God created human beings pretty much in their present form about...
View ArticleHow to LISTEN To Conservative Voters
Culture wars conservatives and assholes like Karl Rove elected a village idiot for a second time in a row using billionaires' money. This much we know, but the post-election autopsy has not been...
View ArticleBest Anti-War Song?
This diary will determine with 100 percent accuracy the best anti-war song of all time. So nominate your favorites AND explain why you love them! Near the top of my list is Bob Dylan's Masters of War...
View ArticleStop Stopping The Impeachment Talk
Four important goals of demanding an impeachment hearing to determine whether Bush lied: 1) Make the details of the Straw memo visible; 2) Revisit other evidence including eyewitness accounts from Paul...
View ArticleDowning Street Minutes: A Snoozer?
The Downing Street memo hasn't led to massive public protests. There's no palpable sense of outrage that the rush to war was all a big "fix." (beyond Kos of course). Why? Most here blame the media....
View ArticleSupreme Court is RIGHT on eminent domain!
There's been a lot of conservative diaries on KOS today attacking today's LIBERAL Supreme Court decision about takings. I understand the concern--some private property owners won't be happy about this...
View ArticleSlogan contest: Strength Through Cooperation
On the subject of national security, the GOP stands for Shoot First, Pay the Price For Years To Come, and we stand for Strength through Cooperation I bring up these slogans for a reason. We need to...
View ArticleLarry David, Liberal Insomniac
Larry David is too fucking funny. I offer zero analysis, and a few tasty quotes from his article, The Roving Thoughts of a Liberal Insomniac. Just read it. Here's the Set Up: The other night I was...
View ArticleHeart of the Speech: A Dodge
How and when do we succeed? Bush won't answer the question, of course, but behind the nauseating chicken hawk rhetoric, the heart of BushCo's latest dodge is official: a secret plan to Iraqi-Ize the...
View ArticleNone Dare Call it Stolen! (WITH POLL)
"None Dare Call it Stolen," Mark Crispin Miller's excellent Harper's article about the 2004 election is a must-read for all Democrats. We should be screaming from the rooftops (and at the media) about...
View Articlewhy we're completely fucked (WITH POLL)
The tragic realities of Iraq have not woken us up from the dangerous dream of molding a cartoon version of the world into our own cartoon image. As if this isn't bad enough, the democrats don't present...
View ArticleTo Barak Obama re: Paul Wellstone (and POLL)
I never knew Paul Wellstone, Senator, but I admired him. So when you said you think of Paul Wellstone as a role model, I was paying attention: [O]ne of Paul Wellstone's greatest strengths was his...
View ArticleChristopher Hitchens gets it wrong--again! (WITH POLL)
If shooting dead horses or setting fire to straw men is your thing, then you'll love Christopher Hitchens latest screed in today's Slate. The column takes on supposed apologists for terrorism as...
View ArticleRudy Giuliani v. Hillary Clinton?
New York's ex-Mayor is now hinting at a run for President. I imagine the headlines are already being written at the New York Post: Hillary v. Rudy. What a juicy political matchup for the puking heads...
View ArticlePakistan: 20-30K dead
Over 20K are dead in Pakistan, and the death toll is rising: Villagers desperate to find survivors dug with bare hands today through the debris of a collapsed school where children had been heard...
View ArticleTO JEROME A PARIS: ENERGY SECURITY is a terrible frame
To Jerome A Paris et al: The phrase "Energy security" hurts our ability to draw attention to the very real threat of global warming. Energy security is a self-defeating frame. Here's why: our...
View ArticleGore, Hillary, Clark, Spongebob--it doesn't matter. Without populism, we'll...
All of this polite squabbling over the '08 nominee is fun but it misses the point. Gore, Hillary, Clark, Spongebob-- in the end it makes no difference who we nominate. Unless things change at the...
View ArticleAre BLOGS your PRIMARY source of News? (w/POLL)
Where do you get your news? Are there people out there who use blogs as their primary source of news? Do you get your news from three or more sources every day? Please feel free to comment about the...
View ArticleCivil War in Iraq was the goal
I've been wondering about the possibility that chaos was the original goal of invading Iraq ever since Josh Marshall penned his brilliant article, Practice to Deceive: Chaos in the Middle East is not...
View ArticleMore PROOF for intelligent design
Human earwax is proof positive of intelligent design. First of all, earwax is complicated. Much like a mouse trap. Nothing with so many working parts (i.e., earwax) could possibly have "evolved."...
View ArticleXenophobia (with POLL)
I am certainly not a port security expert myself, and I respect many of the bloggers who claim to have security fears about America's ports, but I think I can answer one question--what is xenophobia?...
View ArticleGet Your War On!!!!
When I hear Bush saying things like 'I'm optimistic we'll succeed in Iraq,' as he did this week, I'm faced with two choices: A) Vomit and gargle with it. or B) Read the comic strip Get Your War On....
View ArticleLet them Eat Gasoline! (With Poll)
Stop! No more lectures about poverty by people wearing Dick Cheney masks. It's not just wrong on the gas tax. It's getting scary. Seriously, the Dark Lord Cheney himself couldn't have come up with...
View ArticleCensure Republican Virgil Goode, Democrats!
Where is the furious shit storm over Republican Congressman Virgil Goode's comments that Muslims are not welcome in the United States of America? If you somehow missed it, Goode personally attacked a...
View ArticleNegative Campaign Challenge
Republicans don't win elections. They tear down the other side as TomP's recent diary explains very well here. Why? Because it works. So a challenge for the DKOS community: what's the best negative...
View ArticleJohn McCain: What's his achilles heel?
I have a dream. Not a very nice dream on the surface. More of a necessary dream. Imagine we could harness the creative power and talent of the entire DKOS community in an important political task:...
View ArticleIs Al Gore Divine?
A lot of bloggers think Al Gore would make a great candidate. They think Al Gore can win in 2008. Fucking pessimists! They make me want to puke! Ptoooey! If Al Gore runs, here's what will happen....
View ArticleRUDY G. Killed Firefighters on 9/11
Rudy Giuliani is dangerous. Dangerous because he can win. Dangerous because if he wins he'll make Ann Coulter look like a diplomat. Dangerous because he was incompetent as mayor of NYC. The only...
View ArticleRUDY: John Bolton and Gulag for Iraq
Great blog post by Gregory Djerejian highlights this tidbit from the NY Observer. Mr. Giuliani has criticized some aspects of the American performance in Iraq, but has basically supported the...
View ArticleThomas Friedman's "green" Bush Doctrine
Over coffee this morning on your way out to your local Earth Day pre-event you may have been pleasantly surprised to see a beautiful green vision of the American flag front-paged on the New York Times...
View ArticleNew War and Peace Poll: Rift-Free!
This diary includes a poll that asks a simple question: are you a "war pragmatist" or a "war abolitionist." I like that poll so much I want to know more. Here's my stab at a more accurate poll, with...
View ArticleCongressional Pork vs. Global Warming
It's official. Big business owns 'Energy Independence.' First, it's ethanol - a slap in the face to anyone who takes global warming seriously. Ethanol is a gift to Archer Daniels Midland - the...
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